Comparison between US cotton and Xinjiang cotton
Cotton is the most important natural textile fiber raw material in the world. Its distinctive features are its extremely high degree of commercialization, long industrial chain, and huge economic value. China has long been one of the world’s most important cotton producers, with total output stable at more than 5 million tons. In comparison, the cotton output in the United States is much inferior, basically maintaining between 3.2 and 3.5 million tons, accounting for only 50-60% of my country’s. However, this does not prevent the United States from becoming the world’s largest cotton exporter. Putting aside the total output and looking at the unit yield, there are also big differences between China and the United States, and the reasons behind it are worthy of further study.
How many kilograms of cotton can be produced per mu in Xinjiang?
In my country, cotton has a long history of cultivation, and relevant records can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. The growing conditions of cotton are quite special, requiring a long frost-free period, sufficient light and moderate rainfall.
Judging from actual output, Xinjiang is the most important cotton producing area in my country. In 2021, my country’s total cotton output was 5.731 million tons, of which 5.129 million tons came from Xinjiang, accounting for 89.5%. Xinjiang cotton accounts for nearly 90% of the country’s cotton. Behind this, high yield is an important advantage. According to statistics, Xinjiang’s average cotton yield per hectare in 2021 is 2,046.4 kilograms, which is 8 percentage points higher than the national average yield. The cotton yield per mu in Xinjiang is 136.4 kilograms, and the national average cotton yield per mu is 126.2 kilograms.
How many kilograms of cotton are produced per acre in the United States?
Cotton cultivation in the United States has a long history, and the main production areas are located in the southern United States. The plain cotton areas are distributed from west to east, forming the famous “Cotton Belt” in the United States, which is also the largest continuous cotton growing area in the world.
According to statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture, the overall cotton yield in the United States has been on an upward trend from 2000 to 2020, but it has fluctuated greatly. The year with the highest yield was 2017, with an average yield of 905 pounds of cotton per acre, but most years have remained around 820 pounds. Converted into yield per mu, the highest average yield is 67 kilograms, which is only about 60 kilograms in regular years.
Even if the yield per unit area is not dominant, the United States is still the largest exporter of cotton, with annual exports ranging from 3.23 million to 3.54 million tons (accounting for more than 75% of the total cotton production that year), a considerable part of which is shipped to China, India, etc. country.
Cotton production in China and the United States has its own advantages and disadvantages
The advantage of my country’s cotton lies in the unit yield and total output. The unit yield is twice that of the United States, and the total output is 1.8 times that of the United States. It has outstanding advantages. American cotton is not without merit. Its advantage lies in its high production efficiency: cotton planting has been scaled up and harvesting has been mechanized, saving labor costs and improving work efficiency.
At present, Xinjiang’s cotton industry is undergoing transformation. The key to the future is to improve quality: you can choose 1-2 main planting varieties and promote mechanization and precision operations; strengthen the transformation of saline-alkali land to improve the survival rate of cotton seedlings; rational fertilization, Save and use water resources, etc. I believe that Xinjiang cotton will be able to successfully transform and improve quality and efficiency in the future. We will wait and see!
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