Shandong Cotton Has No Price, No Cotton Farmers Give Up Picking.

The quality of cotton in Xiajin County of Shandong is poor this year, so the quality of cotton produced and processed is relatively low, which can not meet the requirements of spinning enterprises, and also hampers cotton enterprises' acquisition of seed cotton to some extent.

The sale of flowers after frost is not enough to support the cost of employing flower workers. Cotton farmers have no choice but to give up picking.

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When visiting Xiajin and Wucheng County, Dezhou, it was found that local cotton had been basically picked up, and some of the plots were even pulled out.

However, when the adjacent plots are still frost, they hang on the cotton plants alone and no one picks them up.

The cotton plant was pulled out by roots.

Cotton farmers give up the flowers after picking frosting

According to local cotton enterprises, the current purchase price of local flower is around 3.1 yuan / kg, and there is no market price. Due to the sharp reduction of downstream demand, it is hard to find a suitable market, so we have to stop collecting seed cotton.

Under such circumstances, because of the serious shortage of labor force in some rural families, and the sale of flowers after the frost is not enough to support the cost of employing flower pickers, cotton farmers can no choice but give up picking.

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The quality requirements for cotton are getting higher and higher. The quality of cotton in Xiajin County of Shandong is poor this year, so the quality of cotton produced and processed is relatively low, which can not meet the requirements of spinning enterprises, and also hampers cotton enterprises' acquisition of seed cotton to some extent.

It is reported that besides the weather, there is a great relationship with the quality of cotton seeds.

Local cotton enterprises said that this year cotton is generally high in lint, short in fiber and high in horse value, which indicates that the quality of cotton seeds is seriously degraded.

It is understood that Xiajin county was originally a "national cotton textile industry base county" and "Shandong Textile City". It has more than 300 textile enterprises with a capacity of 3 million spindles. Because of the gradual difficulties of domestic textile industry in recent years, the operating rate of textile enterprises continued to decline.

At present, there are only more than 100 families in Xiajin county.

It can start production, and these enterprises have a 50-60% rate.