Sinograin makes every effort to do a good job in the temporary state reserve corn purchase in Northeast China
On December 1, the reporter learned from Sinograin Corporation that the state's temporary reserve corn purchase in the four northeastern provinces has been stable and progressing smoothly, and the purchase volume in the first month was twice that of the temporary reserve purchase in the same period last year. A relevant person in charge of Sinograin told the reporter that since November 1, the state has launched the 2015 temporary reserve corn purchase in the three northeastern provinces and one region. As of November 30, a cumulative total of 23.48 million tons had been purchased, including 15.33 million tons in Heilongjiang Province, 4.72 million tons in Jilin Province, 3.16 million tons in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and 270,000 tons in Liaoning Province. According to statistics, the weekly purchase volume of temporary reserve corn has now exceeded 6 million tons, reaching the purchase volume at last year's peak, and the purchase progress has clearly accelerated compared with previous years.
Working overtime to carry out services and make every effort to cope with the purchase peak
In order to ensure that grain sold by farmers can be taken in and stored, a relevant person in charge of Sinograin introduced that relevant Sinograin branches, provincial grain bureaus, and provincial Agricultural Development Bank branches have now arranged 2,958 temporary reserve corn purchase depot points in Northeast China, with a total available empty warehouse capacity of 50.93 million tons. Adding the state-approved plan for building open-air grain storage facilities of 30 million tons, the storage and purchase capacity is about 80 million tons, which can generally meet the needs of this year's state temporary reserve corn purchase. For the 30 million-ton open-air grain storage plan, Sinograin has allocated it to specific storage enterprises and organized relevant enterprises to uniformly build new-type "thousand-ton granaries" with fireproof functions. Compared with traditional "mat-and-crib granaries", this kind of grain storage facility has the characteristics of better safety performance, strong preservation functions, higher efficiency for entering and leaving warehouses, long service life, convenient construction, and investment savings. It can not only effectively alleviate the contradiction of tight warehouse capacity in some areas, but also greatly improve the safety factor of grain storage.
As the purchase peak arrives, all purchase and storage depot points have taken the initiative to work overtime for purchasing, opened more weighing points and grain unloading points, increased weighing, inspection, and grain unloading facilities, improved the level of mechanized and information-based operations, and reduced farmers' waiting time in line. At the same time, Sinograin requires all directly affiliated enterprises, in the face of concentrated grain selling by farmers, to effectively raise awareness of serving farmers, do a good job in policy publicity and explanation, provide convenient services such as hot water, hot meals, and first-aid medicines, and carry out extended services such as appointment inspection, appointment grain selling, and technical guidance in accordance with the actual conditions of their jurisdictions.
Refining the common responsibilities of three parties and forming joint forces through strict supervision
Recently, five state departments issued the "Notice on Further Strengthening the 'Four Commons' Mechanism and Effectively Doing a Good Job in the Purchase, Storage, and Supervision of State Policy Grain" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which refined provisions on the "four commons" mechanism among relevant Sinograin branches, provincial grain administrative departments, and provincial branches of the Agricultural Development Bank, namely "commonly and reasonably determining purchase and storage depot points, commonly organizing the purchase and warehousing of state policy grain, commonly being responsible for the quantity, quality, inventory management, and sales out of warehouse of the purchased state policy grain, and commonly implementing the state purchase and storage policy". It clarified the division of responsibilities at each stage, including point designation, launch, purchase, acceptance, storage, and out of warehouse, required the formation of joint supervisory forces, seriously investigated and dealt with all kinds of illegal and disciplinary acts, strictly implemented the responsibility of purchase and storage enterprises to execute policies, and strengthened the supervisory responsibility of their competent departments and units according to the nature of the enterprises participating in purchase and storage. In order to support areas with heavy purchase tasks, the head office mobilized quality inspection personnel throughout the system for allocation and use by the Northeast regional branches. At present, the first batch of 39 mobilized quality inspection personnel has arrived in Heilongjiang and gone deep into directly affiliated depots and entrusted depot points to carry out work, reinforcing local quality inspection strength.
Strict quality standards and good policy publicity
The state has strict provisions on the quality standards for this year's temporary reserve corn purchase, among which the moldy kernel content is required to be within 2%. It also clearly provides that corn that does not meet the prescribed quality requirements, including that with moldy kernel content exceeding 2%, shall be organized for purchase by local governments in accordance with the provincial governor responsibility system for grain security and the local responsibility system for food safety.
In order to let farmers selling grain understand the state's quality standards for temporary reserve purchase, Sinograin has adopted various measures, actively publicizing the state's purchase quality policy through newspapers, media, blackboard newspapers, posters, and other means, compiling the "2015 Autumn Grain Purchase Publicity Copy" and the "2015 Northeast Region Temporary Reserve Corn Purchase Policy Sunshine Q&A", guiding grain-selling farmers to attach importance to post-harvest preservation and sell corn that meets state quality requirements to the state. If the grain delivered by farmers does not meet state quality policy requirements, all depot points are required to patiently and meticulously do a good job in policy explanation.
Making the whole purchase process public and strengthening process supervision
Sinograin will strictly implement state quality standards as the top priority of this year's temporary reserve corn purchase work. First, strengthen the openness and transparency of the whole purchase process, comprehensively cancel sensory inspection, conduct comprehensive training for quality inspection personnel, unify inspection scales and judgment standards, implement blind sample testing by quality inspection personnel, and enter the quality inspection results of every sample into the information system, so as to make inspection responsibility traceable. Second, strengthen process supervision. The head office has dispatched two inspection teams to the four northeastern provinces and regions to carry out special inspections on quality control in temporary reserve corn purchase. Relevant branches (subsidiaries) have also mobilized all supervisory forces to the front line. For entrusted purchase and storage depot points, resident warehouse supervisors are dispatched by Sinograin directly affiliated depots, local grain administrative departments, and the Agricultural Development Bank to supervise the implementation of quality and price policies at entrusted depot points around the clock. Third, do a good job in quality acceptance in a timely manner. Relevant Sinograin branches (subsidiaries) actively communicate with local provincial grain administrative departments and provincial branches of the Agricultural Development Bank, jointly designate qualified grain quality inspection institutions to carry out acceptance of temporary reserve corn purchased and put into storage, implement the responsibility accountability system of "whoever accepts, whoever samples, whoever is responsible", and any grain that does not meet state policy quality requirements shall not enter state temporary reserve inventory under any circumstances.
Fully adopting the one-card system and resolutely preventing IOUs
In order to fundamentally prevent entrusted depot points from "issuing IOUs", Sinograin innovated its working methods in this year's autumn grain purchase by fully adopting the policy purchase "one-card" system at entrusted depot points, implementing automatic information collection, automatic entry, and instant upload for warehousing registration, weighing and quality inspection, tare deduction and settlement, etc. Grain sale payments are also paid directly through online banking, with good results and a welcome from farmers.