Cotton Planting Area Continues To Decline In Jiangsu Province

Jiangsu province Sheyang County, Rudong county and other places cotton growers said that most of the local cotton farmers have received 206 yuan / mu subsidy, but some cotton farmers have not received.

The reason is that the cotton subsidy policy was released late last year, and cotton farmers were not sure whether there was any subsidy for cotton planting. When the government counted the area of fine varieties, cotton was converted to rice and received more than 100 yuan of grain subsidies.

Relevant departments of Jiangsu province said that the state announced the mainland

At the time of the plan, the cotton picking and purchasing activities in Jiangsu province have ended. It is very difficult to count and verify the actual planting area of each farmer. Therefore, the Cotton Subsidy in Jiangsu province is based on the area of cotton seed subsidy in 2014. The total area of the province is 1 million 550 thousand mu, and the subsidy fund amounts to 320 million yuan, and 850 thousand cotton farmers benefit from it.

If cotton growers have already received food subsidies, they will no longer be able to receive cotton subsidies.

According to the statistics of National Bureau of statistics, in 2014, the cotton planting area in Jiangsu province was 1 million 977 thousand mu, and the cotton seed subsidy area was 1 million 550 thousand mu, and 447 thousand mu of cotton could not be subsidized, which was close to 1/3 of the total number.

According to the national cotton market monitoring system launched in mid March cotton planting area survey showed that the intention of Jiangsu cotton planting area decreased by 40.9% over the same period, of which Sheyang cotton intention planting area decreased by 35.4% over the same period.

Cotton growers in Sheyang County said that there was no benefit from planting cotton at present, and all of their fields were replanted in 2015.

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Last year, due to weather reasons, cotton production in Sheyang was only 400 Jin / mu, seed cotton purchase price was 3.2 yuan / Jin, cotton planting income was roughly 1200 yuan / mu, cotton planting cost was as high as 1600 yuan / mu, plus 200 yuan / mu subsidy, or it could not make ends meet.

Take rice as an example. Last year, the output of rice was 1200 Jin / mu, the price was 1.5 yuan / Jin, the cost of planting was 800 yuan / mu, the net income of rice was 1000 yuan / mu, and more importantly, cotton farmers could go out to work while planting rice.

The main cotton producing areas in the mainland are gradually being reduced to

Supporting role in the production area.

At present, cotton has no advantage compared with other crops such as rice and corn. Although the cotton subsidy has been distributed to cotton farmers in the province, it still can not save the reality of the continuous decline of cotton area.