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Old Grain Passed Off as New: Getting a Clear Picture of Grain Reserves Requires Tighter Oversight
Chaotic practices in China's grain reserve system, such as passing off old grain as new, are linked to unsmooth mechanisms and unsound institutions, and even more to the lack of management and lax oversight by the relevant departments. Straightening out the mechanisms and reforming the institutions will take time, but tightening the granaries and strictly investigating the "big rats" is
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China's agricultural grain reserves have been damaged; how should the "grain rats" be cleaned up?
Before the honor of being named an outstanding unit in the 2014 national grain quality and safety supervision work had even cooled, Liaoning and Jilin were exposed in a "grain rat" scandal of passing off old grain as new. According to a CCTV report, media recently reported that multiple grain depots in Liaoning and Jilin colluded with grain traders to
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Sinograin reported for illegally importing genetically modified rapeseed oil mixed into national temporary reserves
According to a report by The Paper, Sinograin Hunan Company was reported for causing 30 million yuan to be intercepted due to illegal operations, and multiple enterprises it entrusted were accused of using a "stand-in" method to import genetically modified rapeseed oil and earn huge profits from it. The following is the detailed content: Two years after being
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This week's auction volume of temporary state reserves of corn will be raised to 5.32 million tonnes
According to a notice released on Monday, this week's competitive bidding session for temporary state reserves of corn is expected to offer 5.32 million tonnes of corn, 39% higher than last week's volume. Due to increased subsidies, recent competitive bidding sessions for temporary state reserves of corn have attracted more buyers to bid. Last week's auction
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Smart grain depots safeguard the security of central grain reserves
Central grain reserves are an important material means for the state to regulate the grain market, and an important strategic material related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy. As a dispatched agency of Sinograin, the Xi'an Branch of Sinograin governs the central reserve grain and oil and the depots directly under central grain reserves in Shaanxi Province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
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Agricultural social service organizations serve farmers, but who serves them?
Support mechanisms are generally lacking. Take Hunan Province's currently most mature agricultural machinery services and integrated pest and disease control services as examples: these two types of service organizations face difficulties such as gaps in corporate after-sales service and having to shoulder production risks. During this year's spring plowing season, Sanming Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Changsha County had
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How can the operational difficulties of grain reserve rotation be solved?
China basically applies a static management approach to grain reserves at all levels. Once the reserve scale is implemented, without approval from the relevant authorities, grain may not be released from storage at will. Under the fully marketized grain purchase and sales system, reserve-holding enterprises often miss rotation opportunities because planned directives are out of step with the market.
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Corn prices keep falling step by step, and the pressure to release state reserves is great
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium on agricultural structural adjustment for the four northeastern provinces and regions in Changchun, Jilin Province, specifically requiring the four northeastern provinces and regions to reduce corn planting area. The author believes that since 2008, the bull market feast in which corn output and prices rose together due to state reserve purchases will
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The value of grain brokers deserves respect
Grain brokers, commonly known as "grain peddlers," are a group that goes from village to village buying and selling grain; of course, calling them brokers makes them sound more high-end and fashionable. Grain brokers have been openly operating with a legal identity for only about ten years. After China's grain circulation market was fully liberalized
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Rural land corruption deserves close attention
During recent interviews and field research in Tong'an, Haicang and other areas of Xiamen, reporters found that as rural land resources continue to appreciate, corruption among grassroots rural cadres characterized by embezzling rural collective land rights and interests for profit has become prominent and deserves attention. In the process of land requisition, using collective land
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