Supervision of policy-related grain collection and storage further strengthened

According to a Xinhua News Agency report from Beijing dated November 18, a message on the website of the National Food Administration shows that the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Food Administration and other departments recently jointly issued a notice requiring further strengthening of the “four together” mechanism and effective implementation of the collection, storage and supervision of state policy-related grain.

The notice states that relevant branches of Sinograin, provincial-level grain administrative departments and provincial-level branches of the Agricultural Development Bank must, according to their respective duties and division of labor, jointly and reasonably determine collection and storage sites (including entrusted collection and storage sites and leased social warehouse sites), jointly organize the purchase and warehousing of state policy-related grain, jointly take responsibility for the quantity, quality, inventory management and sales outbound delivery of the purchased state policy-related grain, and jointly implement the state policy-related grain collection and storage policy. Clear requirements were set for the site designation stage, launch stage, purchase stage, acceptance inspection stage, and storage and outbound delivery stages.

The notice emphasizes strict investigation and punishment of all types of illegal and non-compliant conduct. Local grain administrative departments and price authorities shall, in accordance with the "Regulations on Grain Circulation Management," the "Price Law" and other laws and regulations, as well as relevant provisions such as the minimum purchase price policy and the state temporary collection and storage policy, assume supervision and inspection duties, strengthen supervision and inspection of policy-related grain purchase activities at collection and storage sites, promptly discover and strictly investigate and punish all types of illegal and non-compliant conduct, conscientiously accept and verify and handle public complaints and reported cases, and issue notices about typical cases. The Agricultural Development Bank shall impose credit sanctions on enterprises that violate regulations in grain payment.