Bingtuan Further Improved The Reform Policy Of Cotton Target Price

Recently, the General Office of the Corps issued the Implementation Plan of the Corps' 2023-2025 Cotton Target Price Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan"), increasing support for high-quality cotton, orderly promoting the withdrawal of cotton production from sub suitable cotton areas, promoting the concentration of cotton planting to production protection areas, comprehensively promoting mutual recognition of seed cotton between military and land, and accelerating the integration of military and land cotton markets, By the end of 2025, the proportion of high-quality cotton in Xinjiang will reach 35%, realizing the unified cotton market in Xinjiang.

In order to strengthen the cotton quality management, the Implementation Plan proposes that, on the basis of the existing cotton quality traceability system, it will further improve the lint to seed cotton quality traceability award and compensation system, strengthen the quality monitoring of cotton production and processing process, and encourage processing enterprises to improve the cotton processing quality by means of variety purchase, stacking, grading processing, etc; The "high-quality subsidy" policy is used to guide the production of high-quality cotton. After the central subsidy fund is fully released, about 5% of the fund will be used for cotton quality subsidies to enhance the quality awareness of cotton growers.

In terms of optimizing the distribution of cotton production, the Implementation Plan requires that the secondary cotton growing areas should be guided to reduce cotton planting. By the end of 2023, 16 of the 21 non advantageous cotton growing farms should all quit cotton planting, and the cotton planting area of 5 farms should not exceed the cotton planting area of the group in 2020.

In order to promote the integration of military and local cotton markets, the Implementation Plan specifies that the target price policy system for military and local cotton will be basically unified in 2023, and the military and local cotton markets will be liberalized in southern Xinjiang; By 2024, the military cotton market will be fully liberalized, and mutual recognition will be promoted in the purchase and processing of military cotton seeds, so as to achieve the integration of military cotton and local cotton markets; By 2025, the connection of subsidy standards will be basically realized. Before the unification of the army land market, the actual cotton growers within the Corps sold seed cotton to the cotton processing enterprises publicized by the Corps, which could be included in the Corps subsidies. After the army land market is unified, the actual cotton growers within the Corps will sell seed cotton to the processing enterprises publicized by the Corps or the autonomous region, which can be included in the subsidy scope.

It is reported that the Implementation Plan specifies the following nine circumstances that will not be included in the subsidy scope: cotton planted on land that has not been declared, reviewed and publicized for cotton planting area; The cotton planted on the land to be converted from farmland shall be specified by the State and the Corps; Cotton planted on land reclaimed without approval or on land forbidden to be reclaimed; Cotton planted in fruit cotton intercropping mode after 2024; Cotton that is not entered into the information platform as required or sold after January 31 of the next year; Cotton without seed cotton sales notes; The "revolving cotton" in Xinjiang or the illegal inflow of cotton from outside Xinjiang; Malicious adulteration of fake cotton; If the actual amount of seed cotton sold by cotton growers exceeds the predicted output by 4%, no subsidy will be given to the excess.

(Source: Bingtuan Daily)