The subsidy policy is a timely rain that will help reduce Xinjiang cotton seeds and improve quality

The subsidy policy is a timely rain that will help reduce Xinjiang cotton seeds and improve quality

On April 14, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance issued the “Notice on Improving the Implementation Measures of the Cotton Target Price Policy”. Subsidies, focusing on quality and accelerating military and field integration” are the main core.

This year’s target price subsidy policy is briefly summarized as follows: from 2023 to 2025, the target price level of Xinjiang cotton is 18,600 yuan per ton; Xinjiang cotton will be subsidized with a fixed output of 5.1 million tons; quality subsidies will be implemented on a larger scale; Reasonably determine quality subsidy standards and use “high quality, superior supplements” to guide the production of high-quality cotton.

For cotton growers and cotton processing enterprises in Xinjiang, the “whistleblower” release of cotton target price levels and improved implementation measures for 2023-2025 (in mid-April, Xinjiang will usher in the “peak period” of cotton sowing in 2023 ), gave practitioners a “reassurance” in a timely manner, which will help stabilize the cotton planting area in Xinjiang in 2023, ensure the income of cotton farmers and improve the quality of cotton. It can be said to be a “timely rain”.

Judging from the feedback from some cotton processing enterprises and farmers in Xinjiang, although basic farmers, land parcel practitioners and relevant agricultural departments of the autonomous region have hoped and called for an increase in the Xinjiang cotton target price level from 2023 to 2025 to 19,000 yuan since 2023 / ton or even 19,500 yuan / ton, but 18,600 yuan / ton is also within the acceptable and digestible range, so some farmers who are still wavering and have unclear intentions are likely to return to cotton sowing.

In addition, farmers’ understanding of the subsidy based on a fixed output of 5.1 million tons is that the government encourages and advocates accelerating withdrawal from non-cotton-friendly/sub-optimal cotton-friendly areas. If calculated based on the 6.2 million tons of cotton production in Xinjiang in 2022/23 (as of April 16, Xinjiang has accumulated 6.1353 million tons of lint cotton this year), approximately 1.1 million tons will need to be withdrawn. tons of cultivated land area, so some cotton that is not included in the statistics and is grown in non-cotton-friendly areas is expected to be difficult to obtain target price subsidies, thus cotton planting income will be greatly affected; non-cotton-friendly areas are affected by irrigation water, cultivated land fertility, etc. Constraints, lint quality labels, color grades, etc. are also biased, and it is also difficult for farmers to obtain quality traceability subsidies. Therefore, farmers, growers, cooperatives, etc. relatively agree with the upper limit of subsidies at 5.1 million tons from 2022 to 2025. At the same time, it is hoped that the scope of implementation of cotton quality subsidies in 2023 can be expanded and promoted throughout Xinjiang as soon as possible to achieve the purpose of increasing yield, quality and income.

Some large cotton growers and cooperatives in Aksu, Kashgar and other places judge that 2022-2025 may be the transition period for the cotton target price policy from “comprehensive subsidy” to “quality subsidy”, and finally achieve 100% quality traceability subsidy (quality subsidy) The pilot has steadily expanded to focus on improving quality and implementing quality subsidies on a larger scale), while stimulating and promoting farmers to “high-quality and excellent supplements” and improve management and planting levels, while meeting domesticcotton requirements. The need for industrial upgrading of textile enterprises is to achieve the goals of improving product quality, increasing product profits, and improving productexportcompetitiveness.