To solve the problem of selling grain, it is difficult to consider the industrial chain problem

Although there is a bumper harvest in many areas of our country this autumn, farmers are hardly happy in the autumn grain purchasing season. Recently, the supply pressure in the grain market has increased, coupled with the previous low market grain prices and high domestic inventories, farmers' profit margins have been squeezed, and Jiangsu, Henan and other places have once again appeared the phenomenon of "difficulty in selling grain."

In fact, this is only an appearance, and the problems behind it are very complicated. In addition to being affected by production, sales, and reserves, it also involves grain purchase policies, changes in the market situation, and other reasons.

It is reported that at present, domestic grain supply and demand is generally loose, international grain prices are low, and the gap between domestic and foreign grain prices is still large. Data show that in mid-November this year, the domestic and foreign price differences of wheat, corn and rice were 700 yuan, 630 yuan and 760 yuan per ton, respectively. After the state started the purchase of temporary storage corn in Northeast China on November 1, the price of corn in the customs stopped falling and rebounded and rose. On November 17, the average purchase prices of jade rice in Hebei, Shandong and Henan were 91 yuan, 94 yuan and 88 yuan respectively, up 8.3%, 5.6% and 17.3% from late October.

At the same time, although China's grain production has had a bumper harvest for many years, the growth rate of consumption has slowed down significantly. The contradiction in the structure of grain varieties has increased, there is a periodic surplus of corn, the supply of rice exceeds demand, the import of corn substitutes such as sorghum and barley has increased significantly, and there is great downward pressure on domestic grain prices.

In fact, similar problems have plagued China's grain market for a long time. To this end, the Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee has clearly put forward the concept of "storing grain in the land and technology", and supplemented and adjusted the past strategy of "storing grain in warehouses, storing grain in the people, and making up for apologies with abundance". At the same time, in order to deal with the problem of warehousing, the central government has allocated about 15 billion yuan this year to support the construction of grain storage facilities and the maintenance and renovation of "dangerous warehouses." it has clearly defined the policy of financial subsidies for the construction of inter-provincial warehouses and simplified warehousing facilities.

However, this adjustment seems to be a bit slow, especially in the face of the current autumn grain market "can not be sold, can not hold, can not be eaten" scene. Compared with the previous simple tight grain supply and demand, the current grain production is faced with many unfavorable factors, such as structural surplus, insufficient warehouse capacity, low quality, upside down internal and external prices, and so on.

It should be noted that as far as the current situation is concerned, the problems faced by the grain market can no longer be solved by relying solely on the expansion of reserves or the purchase of supporting the market. On the basis of strengthening the acquisition, it is worth thinking about how to digest the existing inventory, which will become an effective way to expand the storage capacity and improve the grain output value. Benefiting from the adequate supply of grain and raw materials, the relevant departments should lay a good foundation for expanding the processing capacity of food and beverage, feed processing, animal husbandry and other industries, so that they can extend the industrial value chain, so as to make the agricultural products processing industry develop by leaps and bounds. promote the level of grain consumption, so as to alleviate the pressure of grain storage.

At the same time, the central government might as well increase financial subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery, agricultural technology popularization and services, so as to guide the development of various forms of appropriate scale operation, enhance the level of agricultural mechanization and the support capacity of agricultural science and technology, and then build a strengthened agricultural product industry chain.