Special inspections of autumn grain purchasing and safe grain storage will be carried out nationwide

The reporter learned from the National Food Administration on the 8th that special inspections of autumn grain purchasing, safe grain storage, and production safety will be carried out nationwide from mid-October to the end of November.

The autumn grain purchasing inspection covers the designated-point stage, the purchasing stage, and the acceptance and storage stages. Inspect whether commissioned grain purchasing and storage depots have grain purchasing qualifications, whether they have opened accounts with the Agricultural Development Bank, and whether they are registered with the industrial and commercial authorities; whether the quality inspection and weighing procedures of purchasing and storage enterprises are standardized, open, and transparent, and whether there are situations of lowering grades and pressing prices, raising grades and raising prices when purchasing, or refusing to accept grain that farmers deliver and that meets standards; whether timely acceptance is carried out for state policy grain purchased and put into storage, and whether there are situations such as concentrated rush acceptance, etc.

In the process of comprehensively inspecting the implementation of various safe grain storage and production safety measures, it is necessary to focus on inspecting safety work in weak links and key areas. This includes the grain storage safety of temporary storage facilities such as open-air stacks, inter-warehouse canopies, grain storage canopies, and railway canopies; whether storage facilities are loaded with grain beyond limits or beyond height, whether they have mooring devices and are equipped with effective safety ropes, whether they are in “dilapidated” service, etc.

The Office of the National Food Administration issued a notice requiring that, for inspection work that is perfunctory and not implemented, and for those who dare not take responsibility or dare not take charge, serious accountability must be pursued, and the responsibility of persons responsible for dereliction of duty and misconduct must be investigated according to law; for problems and hidden dangers found in inspections, a list of inspection problems must be established, rectification requirements and time limits must be clarified, and rectification responsibility must be assigned to specific persons; a system of listing and supervising key cases and a system for reporting major problems must be established, with supervision and handling by level and within a time limit, to ensure that problem rectification is implemented in place.