Spring planting is around the corner, what are cotton farmers thinking about?
Anhui is a major cotton-producing province in the mainland. Today, cotton planting is mostly concentrated in several key cotton areas such as Wangjiang, Susong, Wuwei and Dongzhi. In a few days, cotton farmers will have to make bowls by hand, and it will only be a month before cotton is planted in the fields. What are cotton farmers thinking about now?
First, how much is the cotton subsidy per mu?
Lao Xu is a cotton farmer in Tanggou Town, Wuwei County. He is over 60 years old and has been growing cotton all his life. In recent years, the price of seed cotton has been low, and it is not cost-effective to grow cotton. The more cotton is grown, the less cotton is grown. Fortunately, there are subsidies for growing cotton from the state, otherwise the capital would not be guaranteed. It is said that the subsidy for cotton cultivation in the mainland this year is similar to that in Xinjiang. Lao Xu wants to know whether it is true or false. He said that if the price could really be the same as that in Xinjiang, he would plant more acres of cotton.
Second, to whom is the cotton sold?
Mrs. Jiang, who is over 50 years old, is from Qingshan Township, Dongzhi County. Her family’s seed cotton is sold in a nearby small factory. It is rumored that cotton can only be sold to large factories this year, and there will be no subsidies for small factories. There used to be two large factories near her home, but now even the machinery has been sold. She was worried that whoever the cotton would be sold to would not be able to sell it to a large factory more than 20 kilometers away. If it is sold to cotton dealers, will there still be subsidies for cotton?
Third, can subsidies be provided directly to cotton farmers?
Da Wang, who is in his late 40s, is from Yangwan Town, Wangjiang County. After the Spring Festival in 2018, he did not go out to work to take care of the elderly, but grew cotton at home. In addition to growing his own cotton fields, he also rented a lot of land from his neighbors. The cotton planting subsidy for 2018 was paid at the end of last year. It was then that I realized that renting other people’s land cannot be done with a verbal agreement. You must obtain legal business rights to enjoy the cotton planting subsidy. Da Wang is unable to express his pain because he did not receive the subsidy. My heart felt chilly. I heard that this year, as long as you sell your seed cotton to a large factory and show the delivery receipt, you can get the cotton patch directly. Da Wang is very happy and hopes that this can be done this year.
Fourth, can cotton subsidies be tilted towards large cotton growers?
The 30-year-old Xiao Zhu is a major cotton farmer in Fuxing Town, Susong County. He is young and has a flexible mind. Through the application of mechanized cotton production technologies such as mechanical live broadcast and drone spraying, the area planted with cotton has increased year by year, and has been around 200 acres in the past two years. When he communicated with large cotton growers in neighboring counties, he learned that the neighboring counties provided subsidies for large cotton growers. The subsidy for cotton growers per mu was more than 100 yuan higher than that for individual farmers. Xiao Zhu is very envious. He thinks that cotton cultivation in the mainland will eventually develop towards large-scale and mechanized development. Only when cotton subsidies are tilted towards large households will the enthusiasm of the large households to grow cotton be high, and the cotton area in the mainland can be stabilized.
In fact, this is not just the idea of a few counties and cotton farmers, but the idea of most cotton farmers in the mainland, which is very common. All in all, the cotton farmers hope that the country can provide a good subsidy policy to inland cotton farmers this year, so that inland cotton farmers can make profits from cotton planting, and let farmers know about it in advance and make arrangements early.
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