2011年11月23日星期三

Labor costs has become an unavoidable problem in cotton production


With the recent purchase price of seed cotton, the main producing areas continued to decline slightly, feeling reluctant to sell cotton farmers has increased, especially in Shandong and Henan Yellow River region, by last year'scotton price rise, the recent autumn autumn species and other factors, farmers sell greatly reduced the enthusiasm of cotton. The mainland's largest cotton-producing regions in Shandong, until early November, although the progress of the cotton harvest has reached 95%, but only 10% of the acquisition schedule, slow degree rarely seen in history. Processing enterprises in the province is currently a major acquisition, Hebei and Tianjin provinces substandard cotton farmers of the purchase price of the current four-something difficult to identify, have chosen to stop selling the sidelines.

Objective analysis, the current purchase price is significantly below last year's high point during the 7 yuan / kg and the average price of 5.3 yuan / kg, but still at historically high range, but by the national standard lint 19,800 yuan / ton price support purchasing and storage, levels in most areas, the price of seed cotton lint better still 4.2-4.3 yuan / kg, relatively strong resilience. However, I found the survey, the current of the main factors affecting farmers sell cotton cost is increased, the rise in labor costs which is an unavoidable problem, with the last two years of rising wage migrant workers, farmers and workers management, harvesting and other expenses of the increase in cotton production labor costs, and high opportunity cost of cotton, as cotton farmers measure inputs and outputs, have to be concerned with the number one issue.

First, labor costs, loss of large farmers in general. According to the author of the survey about cotton in Shandong Province, the province this year generally yields about 420 pounds, due to continuous rainfall in September, the main grade of cotton fell to four from three, lint percentage concentrated in the 37-38%, the current purchase price In the 3.9-4.0 yuan / kg, calculated accordingly cotton income per mu in 1660 yuan. Costs, this year's package to cost 450 yuan / mu, picking costs from last year's 0.6 yuan / kg rose to 1.1 yuan / kg, mu pick up cost expenditure is around $ 460, plus the physical and chemical costs 500 yuan / mu, without calculation of employee cost in the case, the total cost has reached 1400 yuan. According to labor about 20 per working day, $ 60, this expenditure of 1200 yuan, the total cost of 2600 yuan per mu, cotton losses foregone conclusion. Recently, the province of individual large cost savings, do not want workers picking, resulting in moral courage nor the cotton harvest to frost hit the newspapers reported.

Second, the small family farmers and migrant workers will be compared to cotton, cotton income in total household income declined. In the past, cotton cultivation, small farmers rarely calculate their cost of labor, but wages continued to rise with migrant workers, migrant workers, cotton appears to be negligible relative to income, farmers pay more attention to the opportunity cost of cotton. Income per mu in accordance with the cotton, small farmers the cost of 550 yuan per mu materialized, not counting their own labor, cotton income of 1,000 yuan per mu is about two or three acres of land for one year the total income of only 23 thousand dollars. The average daily wages of migrant workers is 100 yuan low, high then two or three hundred, cotton income is less than a year of hard work in January revenue, cotton income share of total household income dropped significantly. With the recent cotton fell no blame, no one is altogether a number of plots pick pick cotton, farmers take the initiative to give up a piece of income. Wu Dezhou main producing areas in the County, this year's wheat farmers select the pull more and more cotton seed, cotton and money, their effort, as planting a high degree of mechanization, subsidized food. Labor prices, and even more can not be achieved on the mechanization of cotton production has a serious impact on crop production.

Third, expand the machine Pick the mainland areas, can not avoid the labor costs. Labor costs, both under inflation and the impact of price hikes, but also the social and economic development, the inevitable disappearance of the demographic dividend process. The current increase in labor costs has been in the downstream textile and apparel manufacturing sector fully revealed, is the manufacturing sector can not avoid reality. In agricultural production, with urbanization, if the prices of agricultural products is difficult to rise, or state the lack of adequate and effective agricultural production and support of those labor-intensive, difficult to achieve mechanization of crops farmers will first be discarded. In mid-October, the province of Shandong Binzhou spot cotton harvest mechanization held Zhanhua County, Xinjiang cotton picker was demonstrated to improve aspects of the mechanization of cotton picking, the issue is urgent, relevant departments will increase future harvesting machinery priority list.

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