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Prices fall, costs rise: how can farmers survive in the squeeze?
This year's autumn harvest is as busy as ever, but what is different is the emptiness in farmers' hearts. The reason is that the temporary state reserve price for corn, which had risen steadily for 7 years, suddenly dropped by ten percentage points this year, causing corn growers nationwide to lose more than a million. Heilongjiang, a major grain-producing province
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Corn prices keep falling, but the truth is that Chinese farmers are still running a slight surplus
Introduction: Every year in August, it is the period when new domestic corn has not yet hit the market and the price of old corn rises slightly, but this year domestic corn prices have been sliding all the way down. On September 18, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments jointly issued a notice that starting in November, the state temporary storage corn listing purchase price will be set at 1 yuan per jin, 0.13 yuan per jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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Corn procurement and storage price falls 10% from last year, the dilemma of cheap grain hurting farmers awaits resolution
"When sowing, we hoped for a good harvest, but after the autumn harvest, we often fear that grain prices won't rise and we won't get a good price, wasting a whole year's work." A farmer in Rizhao, Shandong, told the China Industry and Economy News reporter.
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National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on October 27, 2015
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 27 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 191.41, up 0.85 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 190.31, up 0.82 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural wholesale market pig
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Prices of the three major staple grains fall together, agricultural product price reform may accelerate
A bumper harvest without a bumper income: this autumn, farmers may not have much to celebrate. Since the third quarter, prices of the three major domestic staple grains have fallen steadily. According to statistics, corn saw the largest drop, with the purchase price falling from the year's high of 2279 yuan/ton to 1980 yuan/ton, a decline of 13.1%; the wheat purchase price fell from the year's high of
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Wheat, Corn and Other Grain Prices Are Falling: How Can the Plight of Grain Farming Be Solved?
The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently held a training session on the "two-deep, one-shallow" simplified cultivation technique for wheat in Matou Town, Dongming County. Photo by Cao Fengqin. Falling grain prices have once again dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. They have also had a negative impact on land transfers and large-scale operations, with signs even emerging of contractors withdrawing from leased land.
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Rising and falling agricultural product prices do not mean the government stays out; NDRC responds
The State Council Information Office held a press conference at 10 a.m. on October 21 in the press conference hall of the State Council Information Office. Xu Kunlin, director of the Price Department of the NDRC, said that so far, after deregulating the tobacco leaf purchase price, agricultural product prices are completely formed by the market, with no
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Purchase Prices of the Three Major Staple Grains Fall; Experts Suggest Raising Pensions and Other Measures to Cope
[Farmers' Income May Suffer Losses of Hundreds of Billions; Purchase Prices of the Three Major Staple Grains Fall Across the Board] Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. Corn has fallen by an average of more than 20%, with the largest drop reaching 30% compared with last year. Analysts say that this year special attention must be paid to
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Purchase prices for China's three major staple grains fall across the board, farmers' income could suffer losses in the hundreds of billions
A bumper grain harvest, a sharp drop in grain prices, and a plunge in farmers' income. Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices is particularly pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of more than 20%, and the largest decline reaching 30% compared with last year
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2016 wheat minimum purchase price remains unchanged, wheat prices expected to stop falling
The reporter recently learned from the National Development and Reform Commission that in order to protect farmers' interests and prevent "cheap grain hurting farmers," the government will continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy in major wheat-producing areas in 2016. Taking into comprehensive consideration factors including grain production costs, market supply and demand, domestic and international market prices, and the development of the grain industry
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