Hubei Province Has Reduced Cotton Planting Area This Year Because Supply Exceeds Demand.

In 2014, Hubei province will reduce cotton area and develop grain production. 12, the Provincial Department of Agriculture issued " Hubei The guiding opinions on the adjustment of cropping structure in cotton producing areas "require cotton production areas to be market-oriented and adjust the planting structure according to local conditions.

"Opinions" pointed out that after nearly ten years of rapid development of cotton industry in Hubei Province, it has encountered unprecedented challenges. It is difficult for cotton farmers to grow and employ more workers. Spin Enterprises can not afford to buy, store and occupy the "four failure" situation that the state can not afford to throw away the capital.

According to statistics, the end of 2013/2014, the national cotton inventory reached 11 million tons, accounting for 60% of the global inventory, 2014/2015 also imports about 2 million tons, the annual cotton consumption is expected to be around 9 million tons. Therefore, the domestic cotton production and marketing contradiction is very prominent. In 2014, China will start the year of cotton inventory, and the market expects the cotton price downward.

In order to adapt to the new situation of cotton industry development, Hubei province will promote the transformation and upgrading of cotton industry this year according to "reduction, stabilization, replanting and upgrading". We should focus on reducing the low yield and scattered cotton area with a level of less than 80 kilograms per unit of output, and concentrate the dominant cotton producing areas with more than 90 kilograms of output per unit and yield more than 2000 yuan. Cotton region If the water conditions are better, the cotton fields should be reduced and replanted, and the sloping fields with poor conditions should be replanted to corn, soybeans or peanuts. The high yield project should be strengthened in the dominant cotton producing areas and the high-yield and high-efficiency cotton areas, so as to further improve the cotton production level and the benefit of cotton planting, and at the same time, raise the production level and efficiency of the replanted crops such as rice, corn, soybean, vegetable and other high-efficiency crops, so as to increase cotton production, increase grain yield and increase cotton production efficiency.