In cotton-producing areas around the country, people who are a little older have this kind of memory, cotton planting, at that time, was produced and operated as a cash crop and strategic material. Counties and townships are required to issue planting targets to the peasants after the implementation of the production team and the contract responsibility system for joint production, and in some localities there is a certain degree of compulsion. Farmers are also willing to grow cotton, after all, they have more income than growing food crops. However, cotton planting is a very heavy farm work, from nutritious sowing, to bifurcation, sins, to spraying medicine to cure diseases, to picking and drying one by one, and then to handing over at the purchasing station of the supply and marketing cooperatives, most of the time has to be put into the cotton field.
The cotton purchasing station of the supply and marketing cooperatives in various places was very prosperous at that time, and it was a face-to-face thing to be a cotton inspector, and the scene of the cotton stacks was very gratifying, and the scene of queuing up to extract oil was still fresh in people's memories.
However, with the continuous progress of science and technology, the substitutes for cotton continue to increase, and chemical fiber raw materials have gradually become the new favorite of the clothing industry. Cotton, as a raw material for the textile industry, is gradually losing its dominant position. Xinjiang cotton and imported cotton are impacting the market. Six large cotton mills in Zhengzhou Guomian seemed to have closed down overnight. The peasants who tasted the "sweetness" of working in the city also realized that the input and return on cotton planting were disproportionate, and they gradually lost their interest in planting cotton.
As a result, in the cotton-producing area, the cotton purchasing stations and processing plants set up by the supply and marketing cooperatives have also closed down, and the operation of cotton enterprises has reached a deadlock. Until now, you can still see those large dilapidated yards in these places, telling the glory and helplessness of the past.
In 1999, in the "Guofa No. 5" document, a new decision was made on the cotton operation of supply and marketing cooperatives: "The cotton business enterprises of supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should fully implement the spirit of the reform of the cotton circulation system, actively participate in market competition, implement laid-off diversion, reduce staff and increase efficiency, and be responsible for their own profits and losses."It is necessary to reduce the circulation links and circulation costs by adjusting the acquisition outletsIt is necessary to thoroughly implement the strict separation of policy-related business from operational business, and from main business and ancillary business. The Agricultural Development Bank implements "treasury-loan linkage and closed operation" for cotton purchase funds. The cotton enterprises of supply and marketing cooperatives must open basic accounts in the Agricultural Development Bank, and are not allowed to misappropriate the purchase funds, and are not allowed to incur new losses in the accounts. The cotton enterprises entrusted by the state to supply and marketing cooperatives to undertake the task of cotton reserves should strictly verify the reserve expenses and the amount of interest discounts and allocate them in a timely mannerExpenses in excess of the approved shall be borne by the enterprise;It is necessary to strengthen management, clarify responsibilities, and ensure the safety of cotton reserves. Encourage cotton-producing areas to develop cotton cooperative organizations based on supply and marketing cooperatives, and form a community of interests with farmers. Qualified cotton cooperative organizations can directly establish stable production and marketing relations with large textile enterprises, and realize the integration of production, supply and marketing, trade, industry and agriculture. ”
At that time, I didn't feel anything when I read this article, but now when I read this article, I realized that: 1. In addition to a small amount of policy-based management and strategic reserves, cotton business has entered the market;Second, the layoff of personnel has become a foregone conclusion or an established fact, and the enterprise itself will throw off this burdenThird, cotton purchasing stations at all levels should be "cut";Fourth, cotton companies should take the initiative to look for "affiliated business", and even change "affiliated business" to the main business and implement transformation;Fifth, the two ends of the "one flat shoulder and two ends" of cotton enterprises, one end is cotton farmers, and the other end is textile enterprises.
In fact, in the most critical years of the reform, the transformation of cotton enterprises in many places was unsuccessful, and they still watched in vain at the pitiful and strict management of the policy-based acquisition funds of the Agricultural Development Bank, which were forced to support their operations, and finally died.
In fact, on the surface, the cotton purchasing enterprises of the supply and marketing cooperatives and some textile enterprises are dying of overcapacity and overmanagement. But why not make a timely and proactive transition?Supply and marketing cooperatives