Shandong: Spring Sowing In Full Swing, Cotton Farmers Feeling Pessimistic

Recently, cotton spring sowing in Dezhou, Liaocheng and other places in Shandong has been fully rolled out. According to the time node, the spring sowing of cotton this year is slightly delayed compared with the previous years. The main reason is that the cotton farmers are pessimistic when they are affected by the epidemic situation, and the two is the characteristics of spring cold this year.

By the end of April 16th, the fields had been bustling around all over the country. Cotton farmers mainly worked on plastic films and seeds, and slower progress in fertilizing and deep plowing. The characteristics of cotton in Shandong province this year are still small duty fields, mainly for hand picking cotton, which basically can not see machine picking cotton. Cotton varieties are mainly high lint percentage and high yield, which are conducive to high yield and high yield.

It is estimated that the spring sowing work of cotton in Shandong province will be completed by the middle of this month to the beginning of May. In terms of cotton farmers' enthusiasm, this year is obviously not last year. On the 16 day, a cotton grower in Xiajin, Dezhou introduced the epidemic situation. Cotton was especially cheap in the near future. Most cotton farmers in 2019 did not get the benefit. So this year, many cotton farmers have given up planting cotton and planting corn, soybeans and other crops. The cotton grower even said that because of the global epidemic caused the trade of overseas grain crops to be greatly affected, it was worried that domestic grain prices would rise in the second half of the year, so they were more keen to grow grain crops.

According to market feedback, the cotton area of Shandong province has dropped to about 2 million 400 thousand acres this year, which is about 120 thousand mu less than that of 2 million 520 thousand mu in 2019. A lot of cotton growers introduced not only the reduction of the area, but also the greater risk of cotton farmers' lack of confidence in the cotton industry. Taking Xiajin County as an example, the "silver Xiajin" of the year has now fallen to less than 200 thousand acres of cotton and the cotton processing industry is also withering away.

As a market person said, Shandong has always been a big province in the Central Plains. Now cotton planting and processing are moving to Xinjiang.