2015 Xinjiang New Cotton Data: Picking And Selling Is Basically Over.

According to the state

According to the market monitoring system, the survey data of 1837 households in 87 counties and cities in 14 provinces and regions showed that as of December 4, 2015, the new cotton picking progress (picking progress = cotton farmers' accumulated seed cotton volume / expected)

The total output was 99.1%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the picking rate in the mainland was 98.1%, and the picking rate in Xinjiang was 99.6%; the national selling rate (the selling rate = the cumulative amount of cotton seed sold by cotton growers / accumulated seed picked cotton) was 86.7%, an increase of 4.8 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 2.1 percentage points over the normal years in the past four years, of which the mainland sale rate was 56.7%, and the Xinjiang sale rate was 56.7%.

According to the survey of 89 large and medium-sized cotton processing enterprises, as of December 4th, the surveyed enterprises accumulated 4 million 93 thousand tons of seed cotton, 1 million 590 thousand tons of lint cotton, 38.8% average seed cotton percentage, and an average length of 28.10 millimeters.

It is assumed that the national processing rate (processing rate = the cumulative processing of cotton enterprises).

The quantity / seed cotton purchase quantity of lint cotton was 80%, an increase of 8.9 percentage points compared with the same period last year, which is 0.8 percentage points higher than that in the normal years of the past four years.

The processing rate was 84.3%, and the sales rate (sales rate = the cumulative sales of lint cotton seed cotton / seed cotton purchase volume and lint size) was 29.9%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over the same period last year, slowing down 19.2 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the sales rate in Xinjiang was 27.4%.

According to the estimated 5 million 216 thousand tons of cotton production in 2015 (the national cotton market monitoring system forecast in November 2015), the total sales of seed cotton and lint cotton 4 million 483 thousand tons were reduced by 820 thousand tons compared with the same period last year, which is 1 million 568 thousand tons less than that in the past four years, and 3 million 622 thousand tons of cotton seed sold in Xinjiang in the past four years. 3 million 585 thousand tons of cotton seed cotton were reduced, 183 thousand tons year-on-year, which was reduced by 1 million 218 thousand tons compared with the normal years in the past four years, of which, the processing cotton lint was 3 million 52 thousand tons in the normal year.