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China's Food Security Faces Five Historic Challenges, How to Respond?
Food security is a very fundamental issue for China. Over the past decade, our country's grain output has increased continuously, and the self-sufficiency rate of cereals is close to 98%, achieving hard-won results. But at the same time, we must also recognize that our country's food security faces many complex and profound problems, many of which are new problems and new challenges arising along with economic development, requiring our careful study.
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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Wheat Faces a Warm Winter, with Increased Risk of Freeze Damage and Drought
Wheat Faces a Warm Winter, with Increased Risk of Freeze Damage and Drought According to a report from the National Climate Center, the 2014 El Nino phenomenon has escalated again and is expected to peak in December, and northern China may see a warm winter this winter. At present, in China's Huang-Huai-Hai wheat region, wheat sown before October 7 is growing noticeably well; if a warm winter occurs, there is a clear trend toward excessive growth, especially in the southern Huang-Huai wheat region, where the risk of excessive wheat growth and winter-spring freeze damage is markedly increased. In the Heilonggang River basin and in Dezhou, Heze and other places in Shandong, because the land is saline-alkali, wheat emergence is poor; especially in areas with annual precipitation of only 500-600 mm, where wheat and corn are double-cropped in 1 year and there is no adequate irrigation, the risk of wheat encountering drought stress during a warm winter increases.
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Corn starch industry enters consolidation period, industrial landscape faces reshaping
Corn starch industry enters consolidation period Since corn starch futures listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange on December 19, futures prices surged then fell back, basically mildly and rationally reflecting the current operating conditions of the corn starch spot market. Since September, along with the new
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Chinese agriculture faces dual squeezes and dual constraints
The Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Rural Work Conference held not long ago made some new arrangements for deepening rural reform and accelerating the modernization of agriculture, and in particular put forward some new requirements for accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model. Today I am very pleased to be able to
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Scientific Grain Storage Can Eliminate "Ground-Piled Grain," but Promotion Still Faces Challenges
Traditional grain storage methods run into trouble, and grain depot purchasing progress slows down. This year there is a lot of moldy grain, and no one will take it anywhere, which makes ordinary people very anxious. Not long ago, at the Taojiatun Grain Depot of Jinyu Grain Purchasing and Storage Co., Ltd. in Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province, reporters met Li Wu, a farmer broker from Sanhe Street, Shuangyang District, Changchun City, who had just brought in several truckloads of corn.
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Grain-price conversion faces challenges: can land transfer achieve win-win outcomes for all parties?
In rural land transfer, the "grain-price conversion" model is generally adopted, whereby after villagers transfer their land, the land rent is calculated at the market price equivalent of a certain number of jin of rice per mu. A reporter's frontline investigation in rural Sichuan found that some villagers are already dissatisfied with this model, and Sichuan has explored various forms of benefit-sharing linkages such as land equity participation, seasonal sharing, and reverse leasing and subcontracting, to solve the difficulty of sharing benefits between villagers and operating entities.
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No-till farming yields are low, and the conservation strategy faces a crisis
Compared with conventional tillage systems, no-till often leads to lower output. However, no-till has still shown yield gains in dry regions. No-till farming, a key strategy based on conservation agriculture, can prevent conventional tillage from damaging the soil, yet it may not offer hope for boosting crop yields in most parts of the world.
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What else is missing for rural land to enter the market? The road to listing faces many difficulties
When carrying out the work of allowing collective operating construction land to enter the market, localities generally designate one county in a region as a pilot area, carry out pilot work for one to two years, and then summarize the experience before advancing. In this process, it is supported by a series of measures such as building the system for rural collective construction land to enter the market, carrying out the work of confirming, registering and issuing certificates for rural land rights, and building rural property rights trading (service) platforms, so as to promote the work.
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China's agricultural development still faces prominent structural problems
A relevant official from the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture recently stated that while China's grain output has increased for many consecutive years, structural problems in China's agricultural development remain prominent in areas such as quantity and quality, total volume and structure, cost and benefit, and production and environment. The first is resources
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