China’s cotton output in 2019 is 5.889 million tons, down 3.5%
Dec 20, 2019 ｜ by CT
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on December 17 showed that China’s cotton output in 2019 was 5.889 million tons, a decrease of 213,000 tons and a 3.5% decrease from 2018. Among them, the largest cotton-producing area in Xinjiang produced 5.002 million tons of cotton, a decrease of 108,000 tons or 2.1% from the previous year. Cotton production in Xinjiang accounts for 84.9% of the country’s total.
Overall, China’s cotton planting area this year was 3339.2 thousand hectares (50.088 million mu), a decrease of 15.2 thousand hectares (228,000 mu) and a 0.5% decrease from 2018. Huang Bingxin, a senior statistician in the Rural Division of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that by area, Xinjiang ‘s cotton acreage this year increased by 49.2 thousand hectares (738,000 mu) compared with 2018, an increase of 2.0%, accounting for 76.1% of the country ‘s total, an increase from the previous year 1.8 percentage points. The state’s implementation of the cotton target price subsidy policy for Xinjiang has aroused the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting and has steadily increased the area of cotton planted in Xinjiang. Other cotton areas are affected by factors such as planting efficiency and agricultural structural adjustment. The area of cotton planted has decreased by 64.4 thousand hectares (966,000 mu), a 7.5% decrease compared to 2018. Among them, the area of cotton planted in the Yangtze River Basin was reduced by 32.4 thousand hectares (486,000 mu) compared with 2018, a decline of 8.7%. The cotton planting area in the Yellow River Basin decreased by 28.1 thousand hectares (422,000 mu) compared with 2018, a decrease of 6.2%. The data disclosed on the same day also showed that China’s cotton yield per unit area in 2019 was 1763.7 kilograms per hectare (117.6 kilograms per mu), a decrease of 55.6 kilograms per hectare or 3.1% from the previous year. Huang Bingxin said that China’s cotton yields have declined in 2019, mainly due to the impact of the catastrophic climate. During the critical period of cotton growth, natural disasters such as wind and sand, high temperature, hail, and low temperature freezing occur from time to time in Xinjiang, Hebei, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei and other major cotton producing areas, which have affected the cotton yield.
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