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Grain prices fall and large-scale grain growers can only break even - do farmers still want to grow grain?
Grain prices have fallen, but do farmers still want to grow grain? A survey from Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Large-scale grain growers can only break even, and enthusiasm for land transfer may be affected. On December 9, the Major Snow solar term had already passed, and northern Heilongjiang was freezing cold. A heavy snowfall from a few days earlier still lay thick in the fields, with stray bits of crop straw showing on top.
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Grain output may slump due to difficulties in selling grain and losses in growing it
From the start of the summer grain purchase season to the concentrated marketing of autumn grain, reporters conducting sustained follow-up interviews along several major producing provinces including Henan and Hubei found that, because of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests and the continuous one-way rise in the floor purchase price, the current grain circulation and procurement-storage links show many new trends: in some areas
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Grain farmers, rest assured: growing grain will never leave you worse off
We must do everything possible to transform the mode of agricultural development, raise the overall grain production capacity, and protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices. Agricultural monitoring shows that domestic grain prices have been basically stable,
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For some farmers, grain-growing income is falling. How can grain sell well?
① At the drying yard of the Qixin Modern Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Jiangqiao Township, Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, more than 800 mu of freshly harvested corn is piled on the drying yard. The corn is currently hard to thresh, and with prices low, the cooperative plans to wait a while before looking into selling the corn. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jianwei
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Measures decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 11, at which measures were decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes, so as to safeguard food security and farmers' interests. The meeting noted that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and another bumper harvest has been achieved this year, which has strongly supported economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but problems also exist such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. As it is now the time for autumn harvest and winter planting, multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests and their enthusiasm for growing grain. First, we must do a good job in purchasing autumn grain, increase investment in the construction of storage facilities, speed up the progress of grain depots under construction and those being repaired or renovated, additionally increase the plan for trans-provincial depot transfers as needed, increase the transport of grain from the north to the south, promptly introduce policies to encourage processing enterprises to enter the market to buy grain, strictly investigate "IOUs" and the practice of depressing grades and prices, and prevent difficulties in selling grain. Second, we must steadily digest existing inventories and reclassify eligible temporary stored corn as one-time state reserves. We must strengthen grain storage management to ensure the safety of stored grain. Third, we must do a good job in winter and spring agricultural production, speed up water conservancy construction such as irrigation and drainage facilities, and strengthen the supply guarantee of agricultural means of production. We must increase investment in the construction of high-standard farmland, with priority tilted toward main producing areas. Fourth, we must reform the mechanisms for grain price formation and purchase and storage, improve the subsidy policies for corn and soybeans, and continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy next year for staple grain varieties such as wheat and rice. Fifth, we must promote the conversion of sloping land in the south back to forest, advance fallow land and corn-soybean rotation, expand the pilot scope of "changing grain to feed," and promote the adjustment of the planting structure.
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High-Yield Creation Lets Smallholder Grain Growers Join Forces into a Fist
On the afternoon of September 22, in the stretch of rice paddies in Chunhua Mountain Village, Chunhua Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, Wang Guisan, head of the Wawulong group, and farmers managing irrigation were checking the water-saturation of the rice. The seedlings were already knee-high and it was exactly the grain-filling stage, so Wang Guisan was especially attentive.
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Will agricultural subsidies favor grain growers? There are more policy adjustments to come
From the pilot target price subsidy program, to the integration of the three subsidies (improved seed subsidy, direct grain-growing subsidy, and agricultural input subsidy) into the agricultural support and protection subsidy, and then to the adjustment of fishery fuel price subsidies. At China's central level, agricultural subsidy policy is undergoing a series of major
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Who is growing grain under the background of land transfer? New models emerge among grain-growing entities
According to land transfer data from the Henan Provincial Department of Agriculture, as well as special research data from the Henan Provincial People's Congress, the area of non-grain land in Henan has reached about 15%, and the impact this will have on grain production is worth watching. Henan, a major grain-producing province, has strong momentum in land transfer. The provincial agriculture
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How to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing income
The State Council executive meeting held on the 11th pointed out that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and achieved another bumper harvest this year, strongly supporting economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but there are also problems such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. Multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests
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Don't Let Excessive Land Transfer Fees Undermine the Enthusiasm for Growing Grain
Editor's note: As the state encourages and supports the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale operators, family farms, and farmer cooperatives to develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, land transfer is in full swing across the country. However, rising transfer fees are continuously shrinking the profit margins of large grain-growing operators and other new types of business entities. While feeling the pressure, some have already been forced to give up growing grain and switch to other more profitable cash crops. How can the reasonable returns of these new types of grain-growing business entities be ensured? How can their enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? These questions are worth pondering.
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