Texas cotton planting costs increased in 2011 and farmers’ income decreased

In 2011, the area of ​​cotton planted in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, decreased, the output decreased, the price fell, and the income of cotton farmers decreased.

According to statistics, the cost of cotton planting in Dezhou increased in 2011. The direct costs of machine farming, seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides (excluding labor) reached 480 yuan/mu, and the land package fee averaged 450 yuan/mu. 0.50 yuan / kg rose to 0.80 yuan / kg in 2011, cotton picking costs are about 380 yuan per mu.

If the per mu production of cotton seed 470 kg, the average selling price of 3.80 yuan / kg calculation, per mu output value of 1786 yuan, according to farmers own land, their own cotton calculation, does not include labor costs, deduct the direct cost of planting, mu gain 1306 yuan. If the rent is calculated according to the leased land and the people employed, the cost of the mu has reached about 1,310 yuan, and the mu gain is only 476 yuan. In other words, the annual income of 10 mu of cotton is 4760 yuan, and the annual income of 20 mu is less than 10,000 yuan.

There are fine seed subsidies, grain subsidies, and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural resources. In 2011, a total of 98 yuan per mu was subsidized. There are few government subsidies for cotton, and only fine seed subsidies of 15 yuan per mu, and no other subsidies.

Cotton is affected by natural disasters. If there is continuous rain or flood disaster in August and September, the yield and quality of cotton will be greatly affected, and the yield will be reduced. However, the food crops have strong anti-spawning capacity, which will affect the output.

In recent years, the type of grain has basically been mechanized from planting to harvesting, and labor has been greatly reduced. The time saved has gone out to work. The monthly income is the lowest one or two thousand yuan, and the high one reaches three to four thousand yuan, far more than to grow cotton. Money is fast. Now farmers, especially young people, are less and less willing to grow cotton. According to the survey, due to the low price of cotton in 2011, many farmers indicated that they would not grow or grow less cotton in 2012. It is expected that the cotton area in the city will decrease by more than 20% in 2012.

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