< p > at the moment, it is the critical period of cotton pplanting. Reporters interviewed in some large cotton producing counties in Northern Jiangsu Province, this year, many farmers have cut down or no longer planted cotton, and the cotton area has decreased by about 15% over the previous year.

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< p > in the traditional cotton production town of Sheyang County, many farmers built plastic shed in the past cotton fields, and planted vegetables such as cucumber and green peppers.

The farmer Li Dachun gave the reporter an account. Except for the cost of pesticides, seeds, fertilizer and so on, only five hundred or six hundred yuan per mu of cotton can be made, and its efficiency is far less than planting grain and planting vegetables.

"One is cotton, and more workers can be employed. It can be said that the whole year is busy with this cotton, and from the bowl to the cotton field, there are more workers.

Second cotton prices are unstable and the price is low, and cotton is not worth it. "

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< p > a cadre of new Fengzhen of Dafeng City said that this year's national cotton purchase and storage plan has been promulgated. Cotton purchase price is basically the same as that of the previous two years, and farmers can not even grow cotton for the income of land circulation.

"Tian rent out, an acre farmland also has seven hundred or eight hundred or eight hundred or nine hundred yuan income, so he does not farm, his income can also exceed cotton."

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< p > cotton is a traditional cash crop in Jiangsu Province, especially in Northern Jiangsu Province. It is also one of the main industries of farmers' income.

Yancheng City Agriculture Committee Director, Xun Xun Dong said that the natural conditions of cotton planting in Jiangsu were far less than those in the middle and lower reaches of Xinjiang and the Yellow River. Cotton planting was time-consuming and labor intensive. Now the young people in rural areas have basically gone out to work, and the reduction of cotton area has become a trend.

"Cotton industry is also one of the most serious industries affected by natural disasters, and there are disasters almost every year. Second, cotton industry is also an industry with the biggest fluctuation in the market price, and the industry competitiveness of the cotton industry is obviously lower than that of the developed high-efficiency agriculture."

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< p > Yu Hua, deputy investigator of the Yancheng investigation team of the National Bureau of statistics, thinks that it is both a kind of frustration and a wise choice for farmers to abandon cotton and replant grain and vegetables.

Abandoning cotton to pform grain can promote the adjustment of the rural industrial structure, and facilitate the concentration of land to large farmers and family farms, so as to facilitate agricultural mechanization and improve agricultural efficiency.

"The highest level of land pfer has exceeded 1 thousand yuan, and farmers will be able to devote more time to the second and third industries and increase farmers' income."

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