In China, about 500 billion jin of grain is stored in the hands of farmers every year.

The reporter recently went to the rural areas of Pingdu County, Shandong Province for an interview, and farmers can be seen everywhere drying their grain on the road, and vehicles coming and going pass by on the road full of grain, leaving dust all the way.

Local farmers told reporters that there is a lack of drying space in rural areas, so they have no choice but to air the newly harvested grain on the highway. after drying, they either sell the grain directly, or put it in a simple granary at home in plastic woven bags, resulting in huge losses every year.

Farmers are not only the main body of grain production and management, but also the main body of grain storage. In China, about 500 billion jin of grain is stored in the hands of farmers every year. However, due to poor storage conditions, backward technical level, simple equipment of stored grain, lack of scientific knowledge of grain storage, and so on, the grain loss rate caused by farmers' stored grain is about 8%. The annual loss of stored grain is as high as 40 billion jin, accounting for more than half of the annual grain loss. Improving the grain storage conditions of farmers will not only help to reduce the grain storage losses of farmers, but also help to ensure national food security and food security.

Grain loss reduced

To reduce the postpartum loss of grain, the first measure is to change the way farmers store grain. Since 2007, China has implemented the scientific grain storage project for farmers and distributed new grain storage equipment to farmers. at present, a total of 8.17 million sets of new grain storage equipment have been allocated to 26 provinces across the country, reducing the grain storage loss rate of beneficiary farmers by an average of 6%. It can reduce the loss of stored grain by 900000 tons for these farmers every year.

Many farmers in Dawangjiazhai Village, Sanzhuang Town, Donggang District, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, have installed colored steel granaries in their homes. Villager Wang Jundong told reporters that in the past, his family's grain was mainly put in waste woven bags or cement tanks, and the loss of 100 jin of grain sometimes reached 10 jin. Since the installation of the scientific granary, there has been almost no loss of food.

However, there are a large number of farmers in our country, there are 210 million grain farmers nationwide, less than 3% of the farmers have implemented the special program of scientific grain storage, and the loss of post-natal drying and storage is still very large, and there is a long way to go to reduce the loss of grain storage by farmers.

The granary needs to be upgraded.

When interviewing in various places, the reporter learned that with the development of large-scale land management and the rise of farmers' cooperatives, family farms, and major grain growers, their grain storage scale is getting larger and larger, and every grain harvest season, because there are no good grain storage facilities, they are faced with a lot of grain storage losses. In order to reduce the post-natal loss of grain, some family farmers have to sell their grain when the price of new grain falls on the market, which seriously affects the income of growing grain.

Ding Shengli, from the eighth operation station in the first management area of Beidahuang Agricultural Branch, has planted 4500 mu of rice this year. Due to good climatic conditions, the yield has increased by nearly 27% compared with last year. This year, the purchase price for supporting the market for rice has reached 1.55 yuan per catty, but as the purchase price for supporting the market in Heilongjiang has not yet started, Ding Shengli has to sell all the rice without granary storage at a price of 1.46 yuan per catty, with a net income of more than 4 million yuan. If there is a grain storage facility to store grain and sell it when the price of rice rises, his profit from growing grain will be better.

Ding Shengli said that he had long wanted to build a grain depot with a capacity of 2500 tons with drying equipment, which would require an investment of at least 2 million yuan. In another two or three years, we must build our own grain depots, which can not only maximize the efficiency of growing grain, but also reduce the pressure on grain storage for the country.

Zhou Yanwu, a farmer of the Dalan family in Haraha Village, Zhuchengzi Town, Dehui City, Jilin Province, planted 4000 mu of corn this year. Although he has suffered a severe drought, due to the increase in production in the depression, the yield is still more than 4 million jin, which is higher than that of last year. He now stores corn in a scientific granary and his own simple barn made of wooden wire, ready to be sold before or after the year.

Zhou Yanwu said: the current scientific granary is too small to satisfy large grain growers like them. He hopes to build a grain depot with drying equipment, but it will cost hundreds of thousands of yuan, and he hopes that the state can develop large scientific granaries for big grain growers like them.

The support policy is clear

At present, family farmers or major grain growers like Zhou Yanwu are generally faced with the problem of grain storage. Many family farmers and large grain growers cannot afford to build a grain storage facility with drying equipment, ranging from NT $30,000 to NT $400,000 to several million yuan. This requires the state to strengthen support, provide them with the necessary funds, technology and services, and encourage them to improve the scientific and technological level of stored grain and reduce postpartum losses.

Now the state clearly encourages and supports farmers' cooperatives, family farms, professional large households and other new agricultural operators to build grain storage facilities, for large grain growers, this is undoubtedly worth looking forward to.

The relevant responsible person of the State Grain Administration made it clear that in the future, it is necessary to expand the scope of the scientific grain storage project for farmers, strengthen the training of farmers in advanced grain storage technology, and at the same time, in view of the characteristics of large grain growers and family farms, develop and develop new large-scale grain storage equipment to help large grain growers reduce grain storage losses and ensure national food security.