2015, New Cotton Sales Volume Exceeded 4 Million 500 Thousand Tons Nationwide.

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 11, 2015, the new cotton picking progress (picking progress = cotton farmers' accumulated seed cotton volume / expected)

The total output was 99.4%, an increase of 1.2 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 1.2 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the picking rate in the mainland was 98.3%, and the picking rate in Xinjiang was 99.9%; the national selling rate (the selling rate = the cumulative amount of cotton seed sold by cotton growers / accumulated seed picked cotton) was 88.3%, an increase of 5.3 percentage points over the same period last year, an increase of 1.9 percentage points over the normal years in the past four years, of which the mainland sale rate was 60.5%, and the Xinjiang sale rate was 60.5%.

According to the survey of 89 large and medium-sized cotton processing enterprises, as of December 11th, the surveyed enterprises accumulated 4 million 314 thousand tons of seed cotton, 1 million 676 thousand tons of lint cotton, 38.9% average seed cotton percentage, and an average length of 28.09 millimeters.

It is presumed that the national processing rate (processing rate = the cumulative amount of processed lint cotton seed cotton seed cotton purchased in cotton enterprises) is 83.7%, an increase of 7.3 percentage points over 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 87.8%, and the sales rate (sales rate = the cumulative sales of lint cotton seed cotton / seed cotton purchase volume and lint size) was 32.2%, an increase of 6.5 percentage points over the same period last year, slowing down 20.5 percentage points over the normal years of the past four years, of which the sales rate in Xinjiang was 29.3%.

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 578 thousand tons decreased by 820 thousand tons compared with the same period last year, which is 1 million 639 thousand tons less than that in the past four years, including 3 million 659 thousand tons of cotton seed sold in Xinjiang in the past four years, 3 million 831 thousand tons of cotton seed and 293 thousand tons year-on-year, a decrease of 1 million 324 thousand tons compared with the normal years in the past four years, of which Xinjiang processed lint 3 million 214 thousand tons, and the cumulative sales of cotton hide ton of 18 tons, an increase of less than that of the previous year.