In 2012, the minimum purchase price of wheat increased by up to 9 yuan per 100 jin.

On May 23, the National Development and Reform Commission and other six departments jointly issued the "implementation Plan for the minimum purchase Price of Wheat in 2012", which determined that the national standard third-class wheat produced in 2012 was used as the standard, and the lowest purchase price was 1.02 yuan per jin. The price difference between adjacent grades is controlled at 0.02 yuan per jin.

The purchase price of white wheat, red wheat and mixed wheat determined in this "plan" is 102 yuan per 100 jin, which is 7 yuan, 9 yuan and 9 yuan higher than that in 2011, respectively. "the increase in the minimum purchase price of wheat this time has increased significantly, which is also a consideration for the country to continue to support a steady rise in wheat prices." Zhang Zhixian, information director of China Grain Network, said in an interview with the Daily Economic News.

It is reported that the main wheat producing areas implementing the "plan" are Hebei, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Henan and Hubei provinces. Whether or not to implement the policy of minimum purchase price in other wheat producing areas shall be decided independently by the people's governments at the provincial level. The above minimum purchase price will be implemented from May 21 to September 30, 2012.

In 2011, as the market price in Henan and other places was 0.95 yuan per jin higher than the minimum purchase price of wheat, the grain storage system lost the necessary conditions to start the purchase of supporting the market, resulting in the failure of the purchase of the supporting market in that year. Sun Guangmei, a senior analyst at Zhuochuang Information, said, "the state stipulates that if the market is lower than the minimum protective price for three consecutive days, it will start the acquisition of supporting the market." The minimum protection price issued by the state generally takes into account the changes in farmers' planting costs to ensure farmers' enthusiasm for planting. The state generally issues the latest protection price for the following year at the beginning of October every year, and if the market changes significantly in the next year, the state will adjust the minimum protection price accordingly. "

It remains to be seen whether this year will be able to launch a market-supporting acquisition. Zhang Zhixian believes that, "it is very difficult to support the market acquisition in most areas this year, even if the start is also local, the main influencing factor is price." The current price of old wheat is higher than the market price. " Lin, a manager in Puyang, Henan Province, also revealed, "it is estimated that this year's market price can easily reach this minimum purchase price."

According to market price monitoring, the average purchase price of white wheat in Jiangsu Xinyi market rose from 1.09 yuan / jin to 1.10 yuan / jin. The purchase price of individual grain brokers rose from 1.06 yuan / jin to 1.08 yuan / jin.

Manager Lin told reporters that at present, the price of white wheat in Puyang is about 1.09 yuan per jin, if not counting labor costs, the income per mu can be about 1000 yuan. And the local wheat can basically meet the first-class and second-class standards.

According to Sun Guangmei's analysis, the current cost of wheat (excluding manual management) is basically 450 yuan to 500 yuan per mu, while the yield per mu is about 600 million 900 jin. According to 1.02 yuan per jin of wheat, the income is 6129,918 yuan, which is higher than the cost.

The "preliminary plan" emphasizes that during the implementation period of the minimum purchase price, taking the county as a unit, when the wheat market price is lower than the minimum wheat purchase price announced by the state for three consecutive days, after verification and confirmation by the China Grain Storage Branch in conjunction with the provincial price, grain, agriculture, agricultural development and other relevant departments, the Central Grain Storage Corporation approved to start the plan within the relevant cities, counties or the whole province, and reported it to the relevant state departments for the record.

On 24 May, Ren Zhengxiao, secretary of the party leading group and director of the State Grain Administration, pointed out that with regard to the purchase of summer grain this year, it is necessary to start as soon as possible to supervise enterprises to carry out acquisition work, strengthen organization and coordination, and guide all kinds of enterprises to actively carry out self-management purchasing and invigorate grain circulation. At the same time, grain departments at all levels will go deep into the front line to help enterprises solve the problems existing in the acquisition.