Cracking the "selling difficulties" and "buying expensive" chronic diseases of agricultural products

In 2012, the Central Document No. 1 clearly stated that the efficiency of market circulation should be increased and the stable and balanced supply of agricultural products should be effectively guaranteed.

At present, China's agricultural product circulation system has achieved certain results, but overall it is still weak, the infrastructure is backward, the degree of organization is low, the connection between production and sales is not tight, and problems such as “selling difficulties” and “buying expensive” are prominent. Specifically:

- Production and sales do not converge. The proportion of agriculture in the order is low, and the problem of “selling difficulties” and “buying difficulties” for agricultural products occurs from time to time, and the prices fluctuate greatly.

- The circulation efficiency of agricultural products is low. Agricultural products have many links and losses. Information from the Ministry of Commerce shows that the post-natal corruption rate of fruits and vegetables in China has reached about 25%, while the loss rate of fruits and vegetables in developed countries is below 5%.

- Organizational and standardized development lags behind. Only 8.2% of rural households in China participate in the farmer cooperative organization, and more than 80% of rural households in developed countries in the United States and Europe participate in the farmer cooperative organization.

——The circulation infrastructure is weak, especially the cold chain logistics facilities. The refrigerated transportation rate of fruits, vegetables, meat and aquatic products in China is 15%, 30% and 40%, respectively. The cold chain circulation rate in developed countries in the United States, Japan and Western Europe reaches 80%. the above.

In order to strengthen the construction of agricultural product circulation facilities, this year's document No. 1 will be clearly deployed. We will make overall plans for the layout of national agricultural product distribution facilities and accelerate the improvement of agricultural product distribution networks covering urban and rural areas. The integration of agricultural product wholesale markets, urban community vegetable markets, and township market markets into land use planning and urban-rural development plans will be studied to formulate land-use policies that support the construction of agricultural product processing and circulation facilities.

Accelerate the development of chain distribution logistics centers for fresh agricultural products and support the establishment of an integrated cold chain logistics system. Continue to strengthen rural road construction and management. Supporting the construction of supporting facilities for the collection, processing, packaging, and storage of agricultural products from the producing areas, and giving priority to subsidies for the initial processing and storage facilities of farmers' professional cooperatives.

Chen Deming, Minister of Commerce, said that in 2012, a number of modern large-scale wholesale markets, farmers' markets, and vegetable markets will be built and transformed to build a backbone market network for agricultural products circulation.

At present, about 80% of the supply of agricultural products in China's large and medium-sized cities must pass through wholesale markets and bazaars. These markets are basically invested and operated by enterprises. In order to recover their investment and obtain profits, they can only adopt high approaches such as entrance fees, booth fees, and transaction fees. This is one of the important reasons for the rise in the prices of agricultural products.

To address this issue, this year's No. 1 document explicitly encourages qualified local governments to build a number of wholesale and retail markets for non-profit agricultural products through methods such as investing in shares, replacing property rights, matching public facilities, and buying back rents.

In order to strengthen the convergence between production and sales, No. 1 documents the development of order agriculture and promotes the direct connection between producers and wholesale markets, farmers markets, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, schools, and enterprise canteens. It also supports production bases and farmer cooperatives to increase direct supply in urban communities. Direct sales outlets form a stable supply and demand relationship for agricultural products.

Chen Deming said that this year we must actively promote the integration of agricultural supermarkets, agricultural docking, docking of agricultural schools and other forms of production and marketing, reduce the docking threshold and circulation costs, and expand the docking scale. Summarize the experience of the on-vehicle food market at weekends, and appropriately develop the weekend vegetable direct selling market, mobile food shopping cart, and morning and evening markets.

In response to the frequent ups and downs of agricultural products in recent years, the No. 1 document emphasizes improving the control of the agricultural product market. Accurately grasp the changes in domestic and foreign agricultural product markets, adopt targeted control measures to ensure the effective supply of major agricultural products and market stability, and maintain a reasonable price level.