Astonishing waste of grain, storage, processing and other links waste more than 70 billion jin a year.

Recently, the State Council issued several opinions on establishing and improving the responsibility system of provincial governors for food security (hereinafter referred to as the "opinions"), from the aspects of grain production, circulation, consumption, and so on, it further clarified the powers and responsibilities of the people's governments at the provincial level in safeguarding national food security, and made comprehensive arrangements for the establishment and improvement of the provincial governor responsibility system for food security. Yan Bo, director of the Department of policies and regulations of the State Grain Administration and spokesman for the Bureau, introduced that China has suffered serious grain loss and waste, wasting more than 70 billion jin a year in storage, transportation, and processing alone, and the phenomenon of waste in consumption is also astonishing. The "opinion" proposes to reduce grain consumption from such aspects as strengthening publicity and popularizing new technology and equipment.

Yan Bo said that there is a special part of the "opinion" that emphasizes grain conservation and healthy consumption, which is an innovation and development. It is true that the current situation of grain loss and waste is quite serious. Some institutions have specially investigated and estimated that the annual grain loss and waste caused by farmers' grain storage, warehousing, transportation, and processing is more than 70 billion jin. It is close to 6% of the total grain output for the whole year, and the phenomenon of grain waste in consumption is also alarming.

"on the one hand, we spend a lot of effort to increase grain production, and it is also restricted by land, fresh water resources and other aspects, so it is quite difficult to continue to increase grain production, and on the other hand, the grain we already have has been wasted, which is a very uneconomical thing." Therefore, the "opinion" specially emphasizes on "vigorously promoting grain conservation impairment and healthy consumption," that it is necessary to strengthen publicity and education on grain conservation, comprehensively promote new facilities, new technologies, and new equipment for grain conservation and impairment in the fields of grain production, circulation, and consumption, and urge grain processing enterprises to reasonably control processing accuracy so as to avoid grain waste and nutrient loss caused by excessive processing. For example, the implementation of the project of scientific grain storage for farmers, the distribution of new grain storage equipment to farmers and the guidance of grain storage technology have achieved very clear results, including processing links and popularizing the use of new technologies in national reserves and enterprise grain storage.

Yan Bo said that on the other hand, there are misunderstandings in current consumption habits, such as excessive pursuit of fine whiteness of grain products in the process of consumption, which is actually not a very good consumption habit. "therefore, we advocate moderate processing to avoid the loss of food during processing and the loss of nutrition at the same time. It is mainly from the above aspects to do a good job in grain saving and impairment. "