State Food Administration: China's grain stocks reach new highs

According to the website of the State Food Administration, the Grain Administration issued a notice on October 8, demanding that the autumn grain purchase and autumn safe grain storage work in 2015 be done well. The notice shows that provincial grain administrative departments and branches of China Grain Reserve will jointly organize a special inspection of autumn grain purchase and safe grain storage and safe production from mid-October to the end of November.

According to the grain bureau, China's grain stocks have reached a new high, with unprecedented quantities of grain stored by various grain and oil storage enterprises and unprecedented quantities of national policy grain stored in open air and simple storage facilities. The contradiction of insufficient storage capacity in main grain producing areas is prominent, and the phenomenon of "storing grain with diseases" still exists in old warehouses in some areas; some enterprises lack safe storage equipment and backward technical measures, especially in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, quite a number of open-air and simple storage facilities have hidden dangers such as fire protection and the risk of dew condensation and mildew on the top in autumn; the grain temperature of shed storage outside warehouses in some southern areas is continuously high, and it is difficult to prevent insects and mildew; Due to poor adjustment and sales, there are still some grain overdue storage, affecting the quality and safety of stored grain. Soon all over the country will usher in the peak period of autumn grain purchase, vacating warehouses and warehouses to prepare for acquisition and ensuring the implementation of the national grain purchase policy is an arduous task.

The circular requires that grain departments and grain enterprises everywhere do a good job in autumn grain purchase and autumn safe grain storage.

First of all, strictly implement the main responsibility of grain storage enterprises. China Grain Storage Corporation shall strengthen the internal supervision over the acquisition activities carried out by entrusted storage and storage points and external rental warehouses, and earnestly assume the main responsibility of the central government for policy-oriented grain purchase, safe storage, safe production and inventory supervision. COFCO Group, China Textile Group and AVIC Group should also strengthen the management of policy-oriented grain purchase and safe grain storage for their affiliated enterprises. All kinds of grain storage enterprises should fully implement the main responsibility of enterprises for safe grain storage and safe production in accordance with the requirements of "who is responsible for bad grain". Effective technical measures should be taken to protect grain according to different grain storage forms, especially to strengthen the safety inspection and grain situation inspection of open-air and simple storage facilities and rented grain storage facilities, and to deal with problems and hidden dangers in a timely manner to resolutely prevent bad grain accidents and safety production accidents. We should actively cooperate with grain administrative departments to do a good job in supervision and inspection of autumn grain purchase and inspection of safe grain storage and safe production.

Secondly, earnestly implement the work of autumn grain purchase. Grain departments in all localities should intensify propaganda on the national grain purchase policy, safe grain storage and safe production, pay close attention to grain transfer and sale, vacate warehouses and store warehouses, speed up the construction of new granaries and the maintenance and transformation of "dangerous warehouses and old warehouses," and increase the storage capacity as much as possible. In principle, traditional storage shall not be built for new grain purchase and warehousing this year. Safety assessment shall be strengthened for new grain storage shelters. New open-air and simple grain storage facilities shall be equipped with compliant ventilation and grain detection facilities and equipment. At the same time, we should help and guide farmers to do a good job in drying and cleaning new grain, strictly control the quality of stored grain, and prevent and eliminate hidden dangers of stored grain safety from the source.

Finally, make every effort to fight the "tough battle" of safe grain storage and safe production. Grain departments and grain enterprises in various localities should aim at the actual situation of grain storage and storage work and the characteristics of grain storage in autumn and winter, and fight a "tough battle" for safe grain storage and safe production in two stages.

In the first stage, we should quickly carry out safety grain storage and safety production survey and rectification work before autumn grain purchase this year. According to the ownership of grain rights and management responsibilities, careful arrangements should be made to classify and investigate the safe storage of grain and safe production, lock in key enterprises and key warehouse types, implement responsibilities layer by layer, find out the base number as soon as possible, establish accounts for hidden dangers of safe storage and safe production, and take targeted measures to solve them one by one. At this stage, special efforts should be made to remove heat accumulation, reduce grain temperature and prevent roof formation, so as to solve the problems of excessive temperature of individual grain piles and easy dew formation due to autumn cooling.

In the second stage, we should do a good job of food safety in winter and spring around the end of the year. We should focus on using the temperature difference between inside and outside in winter for thorough ventilation and cooling, and take necessary heat insulation and cold protection measures to lay a foundation for safe grain protection in spring and summer next year. It is necessary to strictly implement the relevant provisions of the state and the requirements of technical specifications, highlight the two key points of open-air grain storage and renting and storing grain, organize necessary on-site training at different levels according to the characteristics of grain storage and operation in the two stages, and actively provide technical guidance and support to relevant grain scientific research institutes and colleges.

The circular also requires that autumn grain purchases and special inspections for safe grain storage and safe production be carried out in a solid manner. The provincial grain administrative departments and the central grain storage branches should jointly organize a special inspection of autumn grain purchase and safe grain storage and safe production from mid-October to the end of November.