China has taken many measures to solve the problem of selling grain to ensure food security and farmers' interests.

China News Service, Beijing, November 11 (Reporter Ding Dong)-with another bumper harvest of autumn grain in China this year, grain output has become a foregone conclusion. In the face of a substantial increase in stocks and a decline in prices, how to prevent "cheap grain from harming farmers" has become a problem. The executive meeting of the State Council held on the 11th made it clear that more measures should be taken to stabilize grain production and increase income from growing grain. We will ensure food security and farmers' interests by doing a good job in purchasing, digesting stocks, and reforming the grain price formation mechanism.

With regard to the current supply and demand situation in China's grain market, experts have summed up the "three highs", that is, high grain output, high inventory and high import, affected by the fact that supply exceeds demand, and prices in the three major grain markets have fallen continuously, seriously affecting farmers' income. At the same time, the cost of domestic grain production is getting higher and higher, and the national protective price purchase policy is facing greater pressure, which forms a "barrier lake" compared with the lower grain price in the international market.

As for the reasons for the substantial increase in grain stocks, Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that in the past few years, domestic grain prices have been on the high side, and social expectations for prices have aroused the enthusiasm of farmers to develop agricultural production. coupled with the state's encouragement to cultivate new main bodies, many large households and capital have invested in agriculture, resulting in serious overcapacity. "it is difficult to sell grain" has become a common problem encountered by grain farmers.

In order to protect the interests of grain farmers, the executive meeting of the State Council made arrangements for the purchase of autumn grain, requiring increased investment in the construction of storage facilities, speeding up the progress of construction and maintenance of grain depots under construction, additional plans to move depots across provinces as needed, and increasing the transportation of grain from the north to the south. we will step up efforts to introduce policies to encourage processing enterprises to enter the market to buy grain, strictly investigate "white slips" and depress grades and prices, so as to prevent "difficulties in selling grain."

While increasing the intensity of acquisition, digesting existing stocks has become an effective way to increase grain output value and storage capacity. Experts pointed out that, benefiting from the adequate supply of grain and raw materials, food and beverage, feed processing, animal husbandry and other industries will expand processing capacity, extend the industrial value chain, and promote the level of grain consumption.

The meeting proposed to promote the conversion of farmland to forest on sloping land in the south, promote fallow farming and rotation of corn and soybean, expand the pilot scope of "changing grain to feed", and promote the adjustment of planting structure. in Li Guoxiang's view, under the current situation of loose grain supply and demand, appropriate adjustment of grain production capacity, recuperation and returning farmland to forest for some arable land that are not suitable for grain production will help to maintain the ecological function of agriculture. Maintain the flexibility of grain production capacity.

For a long time, due to the continuous increase in the temporary purchase and storage prices and the minimum purchase prices of major agricultural products, the deviation between grain prices and domestic market supply and demand and international market prices has become more and more obvious. Experts pointed out that the reform of agricultural subsidies and the price policy of agricultural products is a fundamental measure to reflect market supply and demand and achieve reasonable grain prices. The principle of the reform is that the formation of grain prices should be close to the market while taking into account the income of producers.

The executive meeting of the State Council proposed to reform the grain price formation and storage mechanism, improve the subsidy policy for corn and soybeans, and continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy for wheat, rice and other food rations next year. Experts pointed out that the formation mechanism of grain prices will be reformed in accordance with the direction of "separation of price and compensation," so as to get closer to the market, invigorate market circulation, and enhance market vitality. at the same time, direct subsidies will be adopted to producers to better protect the enthusiasm of grain farmers.