What is the main reason for the decline of cotton planting scale in Wei County?

The main reason for the decline of cotton planting scale in Wei County is 1. The rural labor force population has decreased.

At present, cotton planting in Wei County is mainly based on small-scale family planting. However, with the acceleration of urbanization and the transfer of rural labor force, a large number of young people go out to work, and some elderly people follow their children to work in cities, and the number of rural labor force drops sharply. Because the cotton planting process is complex, the planting time is long, and a lot of labor is needed, this cash crop is no longer popular with farmers, which leads to a sharp decline in planting scale.

2. Low income from cotton planting

Compared with other crops, the price of cotton is lower. With the increase of labor cost and agricultural cost, the total cost of cotton planting has been increasing, but the price of cotton has been kept at a low level, which has reduced the net profit of cotton planting. At the same time, the Weixian government supported and introduced policies to encourage the production of non-cash crops such as grapes and pears. Because of the low input cost and high income of fruit industry, although it is seriously affected by the weather, with the improvement of farmers' income level in Wei County, farmers' ability to take risks is enhanced, and they are more willing to try new industries with high risk and high income. Therefore, the phenomenon of farmers "pulling out cotton to plant pears" and "abandoning cotton seeds and fruits" appeared, which led to the further reduction of cotton planting scale in Wei County.

3. Low degree of mechanization

With the improvement of farmers' education level, they have more production skills, can use high-tech equipment for production, save farming time, and can also use the remaining time to engage in other production activities and increase labor income, so farmers are increasingly inclined to mechanized planting.

However, cotton planting and picking need to be done manually, which has become one of the reasons for the decline of cotton planting scale year by year. In addition, in recent years, Wei county has vigorously developed animal husbandry through attracting investment, and the phenomenon of raising pigs, beef cattle, broilers and laying hens at home has increased. However, there is no direct connection between cotton production and poultry raising. According to the principle of self-sufficiency, the planting area of cotton will naturally decrease year by year.

4. Insufficient national security policy

With the change of cotton purchasing policy, the price of cotton began to drop sharply because the country stopped purchasing and storing. The continuous low cotton price has restricted the enthusiasm of cotton farmers and led to the shrinking of cotton planting scale in Weixian County. And with the increase of national support for grain production, as far as Wei County is concerned, the policy subsidy for cotton planting is only about 220 yuan /hm2; In addition, the Weixian municipal government vigorously promoted fruit industry and aquaculture production, neglected the development of cotton industry to a certain extent, and greatly affected the enthusiasm of farmers to grow cotton.