The cotton farmers' piles of cotton are received by no one when the cotton price reaches the lowest

At 9:00 a.m. on the 28th, 2010, the author came to the south side of Jiazhuang Village, Shuangtai Community, Duchang Street, Changyi City. I saw on the road leading to the village that the roads were full of cotton fields on both sides of the road. There were roughly a thousand counts. Mu, cotton in many cotton fields has not yet been picked up, and white cotton flowers are still hanging on the cotton trees. However, the author finds that the vast cotton fields are empty. Not only that, the author also found in some cotton fields that many cotton trees with cotton have been uprooted by the cotton farmers, and the unplugged cotton trees piled up in the cotton fields.

The author interviewed a passer-by villager. The villager told the author: “Now the cotton price has fallen by 2 bucks and the cotton in the house has not been sold yet. The remaining cotton in the field has not been collected.” The author asked the villager: “Why does the cotton farmer pull out the cotton plants with cotton in the ground?” “Some people grow more cotton this year and have more losses. The cotton harvest is almost the same as the rest. It's ready to pick something else."

Later, the author interviewed another villager. He reluctantly said to the author: “My family planted 40 mu of cotton this year and collected almost 20,000 jins. Now it is all at home. No one came to collect it. The cotton processing factory did not I just didn't sell 1 kg of 7.1 yuan and 7.2 yuan, but now it has fallen to 1 kg of 5.1 yuan, and I don't want to sell it. Now I don't know how long it will last, and I'm afraid I need to lower it. , I am so anxious that my mouth is bubbly these days, I look for a way to sell cotton!"

The cotton farmers' piles of cotton arrived unattended at 10 o'clock in the morning. The author visited several villagers in Xu Lin Zhuang Village to conduct interviews. The courtyard of the villager's home was filled with hoarded cotton, which was covered with large plastic sheets. "Now the weather is so dry, cotton has a sparking star and we are worried about it all the time. In previous years, it was time to receive cotton. This year's cotton prices have fallen so badly that nobody has come to collect." Qi uncle pulled the author again and again. sigh.

Later, the author came to see the home of the villager, Auntie Li. Her yard was full of cotton, and a cottage in the yard was filled with cotton. Aunt Li said to the author while turning the cotton pile with a fork. “We planted 20 mu of cotton this year and the average one mu can close to 500 pounds. This is a total of 10,000 kilos of cotton. This year, a cotton trader in the village did not see it. I asked someone to ask. People say that the price of cotton has to go down. Those who receive cotton are waiting for the lowest price to come back.”

Entering the home of Mr. Lin, a large cotton farmer in Bo Le Village, the writer was like entering a storage warehouse. Mr. Lin’s family’s two main houses and three partial rooms were filled with cotton.

Mr. Lin told the author, “In addition to the contracted land, I planted a total of 90 mu of cotton this year and received more than 40,000 jins. Although the price of cotton is now a little lower, but lint (seed, a pound of seed cotton can produce 4 two lint) The price of Jin is still around RMB 14. It is estimated that even if it falls again, it will not fall to the price of RMB 34 yuan last year. My wife is now looking at the cotton and I’m afraid that I’m scared. In fact, this year I planted a cotton seed. 90,000 yuan ah. Although I sometimes worry, but I have a bottom, because the price of lint has not dropped, waiting for it."

When the cotton prices of cotton merchants and other cotton were at the lowest, they were closed at 11 o'clock in the morning. The author also visited a number of cotton processing plants in the Shuangtai community of Duchang Street. They found that all these manufacturers were "cold out of the door," and Mr. Song, a person in charge of a manufacturer Tell the author: "Now the cotton price has dropped again. In the earlier period, we only received a small number of batches, just to complete the original order. Now the price of cotton is one price per day, and we wait until we start collecting cotton again." The author asked why. The person in charge told the author: “The price of cotton was 7.1 yuan per catty in mid-November, and it was 5.1 yuan per catty in the later part of the year. This was a short time of 10 days and it cost 2 yuan less. The price of cotton will fall again, so we will wait and see. Not only our factory, but also other factories."

The staff of a cotton processing plant on the east side of Yuandongzhuang Village, Duchang Street told the author: “Changyi’s cotton production in most cotton producing villages is generally purchased by our cotton processing factories. A small part of the cotton is collected by cotton traders and is now processed. The factory owner asked us to temporarily stop collecting cotton, so the cotton in these cotton farms could not be sold at one time.” The author asked the staff: “Can you be sure that the cotton price will fall again?” The staff replied: “This we will I don't know how the boss would arrange us to do it."