How to meet the Grain Storage demand: multi-channel Innovation to ensure "granule Storage"

Zhengzhou Central Grain Reserve Management Corporation adopts intelligent ventilation and other scientific and technological means, and adopts grain logistics technology of bulk, bulk unloading, bulk storage and bulk transportation, so as to effectively reduce the loss of grain in transportation and warehousing. The picture shows workers sorting out the wheat stored in the warehouse. Photo taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pan Xu

In recent years, there has been a bumper grain harvest, and the warehouses in the main grain producing areas are full. The existing storage capacity can not meet the needs of grain collection and storage. How to alleviate the pressure of storage capacity and ensure that grain particles return to the warehouse has become an urgent problem to be solved in the purchase of summer grain.

Promote the storage of grain and promote the deep processing of grain

The problem of insufficient storage capacity has been perplexing the collection and storage of grain. An effective way to alleviate the pressure of warehouse capacity is to vigorously promote and release the warehouse, adopt targeted sales and other methods, digest the temporary stored grain and old grain, and free up the warehouse capacity for new grain.

Anhui Grain Wholesale Market is the main trading center for temporary grain storage designated by the state. The reporter learned that since late May, entrusted by relevant state departments, the number of temporary reserves in this market has increased, with grain output increasing from 1 million tons per week to 10 million tons now. the targets are mainly distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Hubei, Hunan and other major grain producing areas. This shows that the pace of opening up storage by expanding grain sales has been significantly accelerated by the state.

In order to alleviate the problem of insufficient storage capacity in major grain producing areas, it is also necessary to encourage areas with prominent warehouse capacity contradictions to develop deep grain processing. At present, the grain market is in the doldrums, and grain processing enterprises are unwilling to buy more grain and store more grain. Kang Xia, an associate researcher at the Scientific Research Institute of the State Grain Administration, believes that the state can encourage enterprises to develop deep processing through the combination of awards and subsidies.

In addition, experts believe that the state should strengthen the collection and storage responsibility of local governments, especially sales areas, establish an interest convergence mechanism between major production areas and major sales areas as soon as possible, and encourage major sales areas to establish production bases.

Innovate financing methods to expand warehouse capacity

A reporter from the Economic Daily learned in the interview that this year and next, China will focus on the northeast and southern rice-producing areas, with a new warehouse capacity of 100 billion jin. However, the construction cycle of grain storage facilities is long, and the funds needed are large. At present, the situation that the construction funds mainly come from finance at all levels seems to be difficult to maintain.

It is necessary to innovate investment and financing mechanisms, broaden investment channels, and encourage and guide grain enterprises and social capital investment. Sun Zhiqiang, director of the Grain Bureau of Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province, told reporters that there are three grain depots in Kedong County, and they are planning to build a comprehensive local grain depot with logistics, acquisition, warehousing, processing, and other functions, requiring more than 100 million yuan. Government investment can not meet the needs of funds for the construction of the database, and they plan to rely on the advantages of local soybean resources to attract some local grain processing enterprises to participate in the investment.

During the interview, a reporter from the Economic Daily found that at present, some new agricultural operators, such as cooperatives, family farms, and major grain growers, have a strong desire for the construction of grain depots. Yuan Dongsheng, a family farmer in Qianshang Village, Xiangshan Town, Chongren County, Jiangxi Province, invested more than 400,000 yuan to buy two dryers this year, and is building a grain depot capable of storing more than 200,000 jin of grain. The Wanxin Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative in Shanqian Village, Liuzhuling City, Jilin Province has planted more than 9000 mu of corn this year and is planning to build a grain depot with a storage capacity of 30,000 tons to meet the grain storage needs of the cooperatives. to provide free grain storage services for surrounding farmers.

At present, the construction of grain storage facilities by these new agricultural operators is still in its infancy and needs more support from the state. It is understood that the state has clearly proposed to increase the degree of support for new agricultural operators, make full use of the subsidy policy for the purchase of agricultural machinery, and support farmers' cooperatives and other new operators to build primary processing facilities such as natural ventilation warehouses, drying equipment, drying warehouses, and so on. We will vigorously promote farmers' professional cooperatives to develop grain banks and provide unified drying, unified processing, unified storage and unified marketing services for farmers and people, thus better solving the problem of storing grain for farmers. Vigorously promote scientific granary and grain drying technology to meet their growing demand for grain storage.

Improve the price formation mechanism of agricultural products

However, for the deep-seated reasons for the current shortage of storage capacity, some experts believe that under the guidance of the market purchase policy, grain prices only rise but not fall, and grain prices at home and abroad hang upside down, resulting in poor grain circulation and increased inventory pressure.

At present, the minimum purchase price of national grain has actually become the highest price. After the state has purchased and stored grain, it has carried out pro-price sales of temporary grain, distorting the market price formation mechanism.

Zhou Guanhua, director of the Regulation and Control Department of the State Grain Administration, said that the State Grain Administration is working with relevant departments to deepen the reform of the grain collection and storage system and mechanism, strengthen the responsibilities of local governments, mobilize the enthusiasm of all kinds of grain enterprises to participate in acquisitions, and protect the interests of food and agriculture.

Kang Xia believes that in order to stimulate the vitality of the grain market in the long run, we must comprehensively deepen the reform of the grain circulation system, reconstruct the grain price market mechanism, adjust the minimum purchase price policy, the temporary purchase and storage policy, and the agricultural subsidy policy, and gradually implement the target price subsidy system for agricultural products. At the same time, to straighten out the responsibilities of the central and local governments, the central government cannot do everything, nor can it let go. The central government should focus on regulating grain, cotton, oil and sugar, other agricultural products are mainly regulated by the market, and local governments should also bear the responsibility of stabilizing the market.