Tangshan: Picking Time Delayed, Seed Cotton Open Scale Price 3.2 Yuan / Jin

Up to now, the purchase of seed cotton in the main cotton production areas of Tangshan, Hebei Province has been carried out, and this year's picking work has been delayed by 4 days compared with that on September 1 last year. It is understood that this year's local price of seed cotton is 3.2 yuan / Jin, which is 0.2-0.3 yuan / Jin higher than that of last year's 2.9-3.0 yuan / Jin.

The rise of Kaiping price mainly includes the following five factors: first, the actual planting area of local cotton decreased this year, resulting in the decrease of seed cotton output, and cotton enterprises wanted to increase the number of seed cotton processed by high-speed acquisition; second, some cotton fields appeared premature aging phenomenon this year, and picking progress could be accelerated; third, due to the decline of unit yield, cotton farmers were worried about the decline in income, and they were reluctant to sell; Fourth, the percentage of seed cotton coat in this year is higher than that in the same period of last year, 39-40% when the scale was opened last year, and 40-41% this year. Compared with the same period last year, the moisture regain and quality have little change, and the moisture regain rate is 16-17%, and the grade is mainly white cotton weak grade 3. Fifth, the seed cotton price will fluctuate under the influence of lint market price in the later stage.

According to cotton farmers, due to the current low yield of seed cotton and the hot pepper picking season, although some cotton brokers go to the countryside to purchase, and the purchase price is about 3 yuan / jin (brokers purchase from cotton farmers and sell them to cotton enterprises), the purchase volume is still very small. The main reason is that the number of seed cotton in the hands of cotton farmers is small, in addition, cotton farmers are reluctant to sell.