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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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One of three conjectures on how the state reserve affects wheat prices
Recently, under the influence of two factors - weakened demand caused by a lower operating rate at flour milling enterprises and the gradual decrease in the amount of wheat circulating in the market - domestic wheat prices have entered a period of stability. As is well known, a stable period is the most difficult trading period, because at this stage
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Actively Responding to the Impact of Climate Change on China's Agricultural Production
Against the backdrop of global warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme drought events are steadily intensifying, and China's agricultural production is increasingly affected by extreme drought events. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from the 1950s to the first decade of this century, the affected area of China's crops doubled, and the damaged area increased by 2.8 times; over the same period, the severity of the damage increased markedly, with the damage rate among affected areas rising from 32% to 58%; in addition, the scope of impact of extreme drought events expanded from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the 1950s to the vast areas of Northeast China, the northwest interior and the southwest today. Improving agriculture's capacity to adapt to climate change is an important component of implementing the national master plan for climate change adaptation and is crucial to safeguarding China's food security.
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How big exactly is the impact of falling grain prices on agricultural inputs?
Brief overview: In October, as the new-season corn from Northeast China came onto the market in large quantities, corn prices continued the downward trend of August and September, declining further across a wide area. On September 18, the state temporary storage corn purchase listing price was set at 1 yuan/jin, up to 0.13 yuan/jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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How big is the impact of lower grain prices on new rural business entities?
Close attention should be paid to the chain reactions triggered by lower grain prices, and precautions should be taken to prevent localized difficulties in selling grain from turning into large-scale, systemic difficulties in selling grain, which would in turn deal a blow to the growing new rural business entities. From the start of summer grain purchasing to the concentrated listing of autumn grain, Outlook Newsweek
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Excessive Grain Imports Threaten National Food Security
The Central Economic Work Conference previously proposed a national food security strategy under the new circumstances of "taking self-reliance as the mainstay, basing ourselves on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, importing appropriately, and relying on technological support," requiring that the rice bowls of the Chinese people must always be firmly held in our own hands and that our rice bowls should
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How Big Is El Niño's Impact on Seed Production? Interpreting the Latest Survey Findings
Recently, claims like this have been circulating online: this year's El Niño phenomenon has severely affected seed production in the north, with seed production yields in Gansu and especially many places in Xinjiang being low or even failing completely, and the large-scale reduction in northern seed production will lead to a substantial increase in seed prices next year.
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The weakening impact of grain price changes on CPI will become the new normal
In August 2015, the overall level of the national consumer price index rose 2.0% year on year. Among this, urban areas rose 2.0%, rural areas rose 1.8%; food prices rose 3.7%, non-food prices rose 1.1%; consumer goods prices rose 1.8%, service prices rose 2.2%. Grain prices rose
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How Does the Citizenization of Migrant Workers Affect China's Food Supply and Demand
At present, China is in the period of transition from the mid-stage to the late stage of industrialization and of accelerated urbanization, and faces the major task of ensuring national food security and the effective supply of major agricultural products. Since 2004, China's grain production has achieved the great feat of "eleven consecutive years of increase," but according to estimates by the Ministry of Agriculture, the self-sufficiency rate of grain, including soybeans, fell from 100% in 2003 to 91% in 2011, making the "tight balance" between supply and demand even more prominent.
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What impact will a slowdown in urbanization have on the economy?
From July 31 to August 1, the 2015 (Summer) Chongli China Urban Development Forum was held in Chongli, Zhangjiakou. Cai Fang, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech at the forum. The following is the transcript of the speech: China's urbanization is developing rapidly, and China's urban research is also developing very
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