Increased expectation of cotton farmers in disaster-prone cotton in Texas in Shandong

Dezhou, Shandong Province was recently affected by continuous heavy rainfall. There were 3-4 spades on the bottom of the cotton and some of the buds fell off. The cotton yield and quality had declined. At present, the local cotton farmers harvest the bottom of the spades, the quality of the cotton wool is less than 5, and the late cotton is mostly 4 or 5, and the 3 is less. In 2012, the area of ​​local cotton planting was about 1.3 million mu, a decrease of 300,000 mu compared to last year, with a decrease of 20%. It is expected that the yield of seed cotton will be about 450 kg/mu, which is about 15% less than the annual output.

The local 400-type enterprise equipment has been overhauled and funds have been put in place. It is expected that the acquisition will be carried out before and after September 10, and 90% of the enterprises will be ready to pay after the acquisition; most of the 200-type enterprises will not overhaul machinery and equipment, and some enterprises will decide whether to During the acquisition and processing, some companies stated that they only purchased and processed and sold seed cotton to 400-type enterprises. Cotton enterprises initially expect the purchase price of the 4th grade seed cotton to be between 3.7-3.8 yuan/kg, the purchase price of the 3rd grade seed cotton will be between 4.0-4.2 yuan/kg, if the price of cottonseeds in the later stage can reach 1.3-1.5 yuan/kg, the seed cotton acquisition The price is expected to reach 4.3-4.4 yuan / kg; and cotton farmers due to cotton production, planting costs increase, the expected value of cotton prices, hope to reach 4.5 yuan / kg or more.