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Why have corn prices fallen, and how big is the impact on farmers?
After a heavy snowfall, a grain broker came to the home of corn grower Zhao Jincheng to inspect the grain. "Now it has to be graded as third-class; it doesn't make second-class." "If it's third-class, after deducting freight and delivering it to the destination, it can only sell for 0.71 yuan." The corn price fell from 0.90 yuan per jin in 2014 to 0.71 yuan per jin this year. Neighbors and relatives all stored their corn, waiting to see how the price would move. But Zhao Jincheng urgently needed money, so he had to sell even at a low price, because he still had a loan to repay as soon as possible.
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Grain prices plummet, farmers' incomes drop sharply, and finances and stockpiles are under pressure too
This year's grain prices have fallen too hard. Liu Xueyou said helplessly. Liu Xueyou, 51 this year, is a major grain grower in Xi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, with more than 16,000 mu of transferred land, accounting for one percent of the county's total arable land, and is known as the "Grain King of Henan." The fall in grain prices caught him
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Corn prices fall, and the declining market is worth watching
"The formation of grain prices should be close to the market while also taking into account farmers' legitimate income. This is a very important principle for the future formation of China's grain prices." On November 4, Chen Xiwen, deputy head of the Central Rural Work Leading Group and director of its office, said this at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office.
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Orders drop by more than 80%: a farmer in Urumqi has 2,300 barred rock chickens
Yaxin Net News (Reporter Guo Ling) The order was supposed to be 100 barred rock chickens a day, but the daily purchase volume dropped by more than 80%, and the sale of the remaining 2,300 barred rock chickens has become the biggest worry for Li Gui and his wife. Li Gui, 40, lives in Team 7, Bajiahu Village, Dabancheng District, Urumqi, and has raised barred rock chickens for 5 years
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Against the backdrop of a large population and limited land, why does China's grain sector show the coexistence of "three highs"?
According to data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total national summer grain output in 2015 was 141.066 million tons, an increase of 3.3% over 2014. With this, China's summer grain achieved twelve consecutive years of bumper harvests. While total grain output keeps climbing, China's grain imports have also been growing rapidly.
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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Rapeseed profits drop sharply: how should autumn-sown rapeseed be planted?
This year's price is even lower than last year's. Planting one mu of rapeseed does not make money, so I do not want to plant it next year. Recently, reporters received reports from several farmers in Jianyang City that this year's rapeseed market price is not high, the market is sluggish, planting benefits are not as good as in previous years, and planting enthusiasm has been damaged.
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Garlic prices surge again, yet trading volume drops noticeably
Take Beijing as an example: in June, the average wholesale price of garlic at the Xinfadi market was 2.5-3.2 yuan per jin, a full doubling compared with two months earlier. Right now is the peak season for vegetables coming onto the market, and oversupply has pushed down the prices of most vegetables. Yet there is
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Prices of popular Chinese medicinal herbs such as angelica and gastrodia drop sharply
Due to blindly expanded cultivation, output of many previously hot-selling varieties such as angelica and gastrodia is severely oversupplied. Not only have lofty items like bird's nest and cordyceps been consigned to the cold palace by the market, but "everyone's darling" Chinese medicinal herbs have also begun to fall in price and attract few buyers. The reporter learned that, including Salvia miltiorrhiza,
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Taiyuan, Shanxi tea merchants must drop their pretensions to get out of trouble
Mr. An, a tea merchant from Anxi, Fujian, set out early in the morning with a friend. Because rents at Modern Tea City had risen yet again, he had no choice but to look for a more suitable shop space to continue the tea business he had run for more than ten years. Since the start of this year, many tea merchants, like Mr. An
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