A cotton selecting machine strikes in a cotton area in Dolatbag Town of Bachu County, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. File picture: Xinhua
The cotton harvest from greater than 30 million mu (2 million hectares) of land has been acquired in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, because the shopping for season is drawing to a shut, with higher crop yields and incomes for cotton farmers indicating a affluent trade, despite slander and crackdown by the US, trade insiders mentioned.
“Recent changes in the international trade situation have brought new challenges to the development of the cotton industry. But changes in external factors will not hinder the high-quality, sustainable development of China’s cotton industry,” Wang Jianhong, vp and secretary common of the China Cotton Association (CCA), instructed the Economic Daily on Saturday.
The CCA mentioned final week that the “domestic cotton price spread based upon quality,” and the cotton acquisition season was drawing to a shut.
Industry insiders mentioned that the mechanization charge of cotton selecting in Xinjiang has continued to extend, and the standard of Xinjiang cotton can be rising with thorough, fantastic administration from seed sifting to planting and fertilizing. The effectivity of the trade chain has additionally been optimized, despite the US’ crackdown marketing campaign.
Chinese customers should purchase garments in March produced from Xinjiang cotton harvested in November 2021, mentioned a member enterprise of the China Cotton Industry Alliance (CCIA).
According to the CCIA, it solely takes 90 days from cotton harvesting to cloth completion, which might straight enter the meeting line of clothes enterprises.
China’s whole output of cotton reached 5.95 million tons within the 2020-2021 harvest year, in accordance with the China Cotton Textile Association (CCTA).
Of the whole, 5.13 million tons got here from Xinjiang, accounting for 87 % of home cotton output in 2021, statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) confirmed.
Total demand for cotton in China is about 7.eight million tons, with about 1.85 million tons counting on imports, primarily from India, Australia and different international locations, learn a report launched by the CCTA in December.
According to the NBS, Xinjiang’s cotton yield per hectare reached 2,046.four kilograms in 2021, and the income of cotton-planting farmers was greater than 1,500 yuan per mu ($15.6 per hectare).
A farmer in Xinjiang instructed the Global Times that his web income is greater than 600,000 yuan ($94,077) from about 600 mu of cotton vegetation each year.
Zhang Jie, supervisor of a textile firm in Xinjiang, instructed the Global Times that the corporate’s cotton fields have mechanized the planting course of, making cotton planting simpler and extra environment friendly, with growing incomes.
“We sow cotton with the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, water it with automatic drip irrigation, and pick it with machines,” mentioned Zhang.
Chen Minhong, a cotton farmer in Xinjiang’s Yuli county, received a style of the advantages of 5G expertise in 2021, the CCTA reported.
With the introduction of clever gear, Chen’s area of greater than 1,000 mu has realized clever cultivation, sowing, fertilization and selecting, which has helped enhance the yield to 400 kilograms per mu from 350 kilograms.
From 2019 to December 2021, a whole of 19,343 5G base stations had been inbuilt Xinjiang, in accordance with the Communications Administration of Xinjiang.
“Machine picking costs 150 yuan per mu, averaging 50 yuan per kilogram. The cotton production area in northern Xinjiang has realized 100 percent machine picking, and the machine picking rate in southern Xinjiang has reached 70 percent,” mentioned Cao Huiqing, president of the Department of Cotton Farmers on the CCTA, in December.
In latest years, Xinjiang cotton has primarily equipped massive home textile enterprises, whose factories moved to Xinjiang, learn a CCTA report.
Xinjiang cotton accounts for 67 % of home consumption.
“Xinjiang cotton, imported cotton and imported cotton yarn are all used in cotton textiles for export. The proportion of Xinjiang cotton is probably at least 50 percent of all textiles exported from China,” a staffer on the Shanghai International Cotton Exchange instructed the Global Times on Sunday.
While home textile mills have sturdy demand for Xinjiang cotton, export-oriented textile enterprises certainly face the challenges posed by the US crackdown, trade insiders famous.
They additionally mentioned that with a view to deal with the uncertainties and dangers of the worldwide market, China’s massive garment enterprises have constructed factories in Southeast Asia, or extra distant places reminiscent of Mexico.
According to a Chinese textile enterprise, which declined to be recognized, it has constructed manufacturing bases in China’s Xinjiang area and Vietnam.
Its factories in Xinjiang serve Chinese enterprises, whereas the factories in Vietnam serve abroad clients.
