Juye County, Shandong Cotton covered peach peeled cotton yield affected

Affected by the rainy weather, Juye County, Shandong Province, the top cover of the cotton off more than a certain impact on the cotton production, but the local weather conditions in the early period is better, the rate of peaches is higher, the industry expects that if the weather is normal later, Seed cotton yield can still reach 350-450 kg/mu, which is basically the same as last year's actual output, but lower than the previous forecast of 500 kg/mu. Before and after the “October 11”, farmers will start picking cotton with normal boll opening. At present, only sporadic picking of cotton cakes is done at home.

Affected by the increase in the price of agricultural and sideline products and the increase in the total input of cotton seedlings this year, cotton farmers are expected to purchase seed cotton at a price of 4.5-5.0 yuan/kg, and some are even higher. However, cotton enterprises stated that they will start purchasing cotton seed cotton at the end of October and early November and the price may be between RMB 4.0-4.5/kg. In addition, people in the industry indicated that due to the trend of cotton prices in the past two years in the previous low and high, plus the high price of garlic this year, cotton farmers have tasted the sweetness from the storage of garlic, so they are interested in accumulating cotton. It is expected that local cotton prices will be very high before the Spring Festival. It is difficult to form an acquisition climax.