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Why is it hard for stockpiling to improve the competitiveness of agricultural products? Dang Guoying explains
Setting intervention prices for agricultural products according to farmer income targets may weaken the pressure of market competition and bring marginal land with backward productivity into cultivation. According to media reports, a reporter learned from authoritative sources that the research for the 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture is considering abolishing the temporary stockpiling policy,
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Innovative Research Teams Help Boost Agricultural Competitiveness
Content Summary China is currently at a critical juncture in its agricultural modernization transformation. Under the severe situation of scarce resources, strong demand, higher standards, and intensifying international competition, it is necessary to enhance land output rate, resource utilization rate, and
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How Modern Agriculture Builds Core Competitiveness Through Branding
Branding is the core competitiveness and core hallmark of agricultural modernization. Strong brands make strong agriculture and a strong China; developing brand agriculture should become a national will, a national concept and a national strategy. Recently, at the 2014 China Brand Agriculture Development Conference held in Qingdao, Shandong, leading officials
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Focus on brand competitiveness to maintain a dominant market position
The brand economy is one of the key elements of the new economic normal. Modern agricultural development must pay attention to the role of the brand economy, and this has become an industry consensus. To develop the brand economy, it is necessary to enhance the competitiveness of brands. Brand competitiveness refers to the ability of a brand to enter customers' minds and occupy
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How should the price competitiveness of China's agricultural products be improved?
Anhui netizen Xiaomili: My hometown is in the countryside. When I went home for the Spring Festival this year, I heard villagers say that last year's vegetables and fruit did not sell well. In the past, our family's agricultural products were all exported, but last year the price advantage was not obvious, and exports were not smooth either. May I ask, how should
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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The greater the amount of cultivated land, the more it helps to enhance agricultural competitiveness
The greater the amount of cultivated land, the better the conditions for raising China's agricultural competitiveness, and the easier it is for farmers to specialize. The most effective way to protect cultivated land is not to rely on administrative orders, but to let market mechanisms play a greater regulatory role. Recently, national leaders emphatically stressed
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China Never Has Too Much Arable Land, and More of It Gives Better Conditions for Raising Agricultural Competitiveness
The more arable land there is, the better the conditions for raising China's agricultural competitiveness, and the easier it is for farmers to specialize. The most effective way to protect arable land is not to rely on administrative orders, but to let market mechanisms play a greater regulatory role. Recently, national leaders prominently emphasized
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Building China's grain brands urgently requires making quality the core competitiveness
China's grain brand building is still generally backward, grain brands have not formed a joint force, and there are few brands with international influence. The grain industry is entering an era of large-scale circulation and large-scale integration. Cultivating large grain merchants requires great boldness. China should, from a strategic height, support modern
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How can the comprehensive production capacity and international competitiveness of the dairy industry be improved? Wang Yang says so
Continuously improve the comprehensive production capacity and international competitiveness of the dairy industry. Speech by Vice Premier Wang Yang of the State Council at the China Dairy D20 Summit, August 18, 2015. At this important juncture of the transformation and upgrading of our country's dairy industry, this Dairy D20 Summit is being held, bringing everyone together to jointly discuss major issues in dairy industry development.
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