Who should be held responsible for the arrears of farmers' grain payments?

On the one hand, there are the grain farmers who have not received the money, and on the other, the grain reserves that have already paid for the grain. Recently, the defaulted payment of grain sales by farmers in Dingyuan County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province has aroused concern from all parties. Where on earth did the grain sales of more than 20 million yuan go? How to repay the amount of grain owed to the peasants? The reporter recently went to Dingyuan and Chuzhou to conduct an investigation.

The stored grain has been paid for, but the farmers didn't get the money.

In 2014, the Chuzhou directly affiliated warehouse of China Grain Storage rented the warehouse of Minsheng Rice Industry Co., Ltd., Yongkang Town, Dingyuan County to store national policy grain. Farmers in Hulu Village, Yongkang Town, Chen Village and Datang Village in Shandong Province, or themselves or through grain brokers, went to Minsheng Rice Industry to sell wheat and rice purchased at state protection prices.

Farmer Zhang Zhiyin went to Minsheng rice industry to sell rice on 14 October last year, but so far he has not received a penny. "A total of more than 23000 yuan, and he is in a special hurry. He has asked for rice from Minsheng rice industry many times."

Chen Fang, a grain broker, said: "there is still more than 1 million yuan in grain payment. I bought farmers' grain and sold it to grain depots. The money is not mine, but more than 100 farmers' money." Chen Fang told reporters that he was not the most in arrears, and some grain brokers were owed more than 3 million yuan.

Zhang Xinsheng, deputy general manager of China Storage Grain Anhui Branch, said that according to the bank bills transferred and local investigations, the Chuzhou directly affiliated warehouse of China Grain Storage has transferred the grain money to the settlement cards of grain brokers and farmers in the process of grain collection in the rent depot of the people's livelihood rice industry, and there is no "white slip" to default on the grain payment.

I've already paid for it. Where's the money going?

According to the results of a survey conducted by the Grain Bureau of Dingyuan County in April this year, the Minsheng rice industry owed 21 grain brokers in 2014 for the collection and storage business of Cofco and COFCO (new grain company), with arrears of 23351632 yuan, and farmers owed 2333120 yuan, totaling 25684752 yuan. It is understood that 21 brokers are involved in more than 1000 farmers.

Clear the debt: at present, we are trying to find out and pay the farmers for food as soon as possible.

How could the grain sales funds that should have been sent directly to farmers have been misappropriated by the people's livelihood rice industry?

Yang Fengping, deputy head of Dingyuan County, said that in the process of grain collection and storage, enterprises usually appoint some big brokers who first buy grain from farmers or small brokers, and then sell it to storage centers, which is more convenient than selling grain from one household to another, and there is no need to wait in a long line. These big brokers are appointed by the person in charge of Minsheng rice industry. he will choose brokers who have worked with him for a long time and have a good relationship with him, and even his own employees, and let them collect the grain. Yong Jun, the person in charge of the Minsheng rice industry, used these grain funds that did not belong to him to repay the loan and cash flow. He had expected that after the loan was repaid, he would make up for this part of the funding gap, but the loan did not succeed, resulting in a break in the capital chain and leading to the current situation.

After the incident of Dingyuan farmers' grain payment arrears was exposed, the person in charge of the relevant departments of the State Grain Administration rushed to Dingyuan for investigation. On July 16, the State Grain Administration issued an urgent notice on strict supervision and serious investigation and punishment of "white slips" to grain farmers. It requires the relevant central grain enterprises to supervise and urge enterprises directly under the central government to rent and store grain and entrust them to strictly implement the national grain purchase policy, take practical measures, and strictly standardize the work flow of grain purchase and capital settlement, so as to prevent the occurrence of any form of "white slip" problem. We will effectively protect the interests of farmers and their enthusiasm for growing grain.

On 23 July, Yang Fengping told reporters that at present, the working group composed of relevant departments of China Grain Storage and Dingyuan County, with the assistance of the person in charge of Minsheng rice industry and some grain brokers, has checked the amount of grain arrears one by one and found out the bottom number. settle the arrears as soon as possible. This statement has been confirmed by China Grain Storage.

Who should be responsible for the damage to the interests of farmers?

A person in charge of a local grain enterprise, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the current situation was caused by the misappropriation of other people's grain funds by Yongjun, the person in charge of the Minsheng rice industry, but there were also omissions in the supervision of the stored grain, giving the Yongjun the opportunity to directly contact and use these large amounts of funds.

In the report on the handling of grain arrears by Minsheng Rice Industry Co., Ltd., Anhui Minsheng Rice Industry Co., Ltd., Dingyuan County Grain Bureau mentioned that Minsheng rice industry reached an agreement with grain sellers in private, borrowed money from grain sellers and other reasons.

As for the statement of the Grain Bureau, the reporter found Yongjun. He told the reporter that it was true to use money, but there was no agreement to borrow money or pay interest. Yongjun said that some of the arrears have been paid but have not yet been written off, and the current arrears are still about 20 million yuan.

As for the money owed to retail investors, Yong Jun said that in accordance with the practice in previous years, farmers came to hand over grain, paid cash first, got the farmers' red settlement couplet, and then went to find a unified settlement of stored grain. However, last year, due to the problem of funds, I took the farmers' payment couplings, but only issued an IOU to the farmers. after they took the peasants' settlement couplets and got the money in the grain storage, they directly used it in other places and did not pay it to the peasants.

Zhu Qizhen, director of the Farmers' Research Institute of China Agricultural University, said: "if farmers do not get money for selling grain, it will inevitably affect their enthusiasm for growing grain. No matter which grain enterprise it is, they should understand that playing white slips is a high-voltage line and cannot be touched." Zhu Qizhen said: at present, the problem that needs to be solved is to repay the unpaid grain payments to farmers as soon as possible. After the investigation of the relevant departments in the later stage, the responsibility must be clarified and dealt with in accordance with the rules and regulations, and similar things harming the interests of farmers should not be allowed to happen again.