Being severely created by drought, Cotton in the United States is expected to reduce production by about 60 %

The continued drought this summer has caused severe damage to cotton production in the main cotton -producing area in the United States, and it is expected to reduce production by about 60 %. Local cotton farmers, Saton Page, worked hard, and only kept about 20 % of cotton in the ground. And most of his neighbors are even more miserable, almost "granular no harvest".

The farmers in Dezhou are harvesting cotton.

Dezhou cotton is usually planted from March to June and harvested from August to December. About 40 % of cotton in the United States is produced in the state. Agence France -Presse quoted the US Department of Agriculture data on the 20th that Cotton is expected to reduce production by 58%this year. The national output decreased by 21%year -on -year, a new low since 2015.

According to the United States "Dallas Morning Post", Dezhou has recorded a record highest temperature this summer, with a 40 -day single -day temperature of more than 37.7 degrees Celsius. Such a drought, not only "roasting" the livelihood of many cotton farmers, but also cracking down on people's expectations for cotton harvest in the coming year.

Agence France -Presse reported that Robert, the main place of cotton in Texas, has been in the past 12 months of about half of the normal levels of previous years, and the precipitation has come particularly late and has no complementary.

Severe droughts lead to cotton reduction.

Recently, although some rainfall is ushered in, there are still more than 70%of the regions in Dezhou in a state of severe drought. Experts from Texas Institute of Technology estimate that in the most output of the high -land plains in the nine cotton planting areas in Texas, this year's cotton output value will be reduced by US $ 2.1 billion.

According to Cottonon Page, the local area from January to May has not dropped, and high temperatures began in May. In addition, the strong wind blows, resulting in "everything is dry" in the ground. In order to reduce the loss, he had to plow and plow 80%of the cotton that was about to die. The surviving cotton is also not good, and it is not cost -effective from the perspective of harvesting.

John Robinson, a cotton economist at the Texas Agricultural Machinery University, said that in the face of high temperature and drought, nearly 70 % of the cotton farmers grown in Dezhou were abandoned by cotton farmers. This means that the cotton output this year is expected to be only 3.25 million packages, which is equivalent to 53%of the previous five years.

High inflation is even worse for American cotton farmers.

Experts believe that high inflation is even worse for American cotton farmers. On the one hand, the cost of cotton planting has risen sharply; on the other hand, consumers can freely control expenditure, and the demand and purchase volume of related products such as cotton textiles have decreased.

Daron Hedeson, director of the International Agricultural Competitiveness Center of Texas University of Technology, believes that not only the cotton farmers have suffered a large drought impact, but also the relevant enterprises, warehouses, and other departments of the cotton economy are also unavoidable.

(Source: CCTV News Client)

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