How to reduce food loss first when saving food

The phenomenon of food loss and waste in our country still exists
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On May 23, a reporter from China Business Daily learned at the press briefing of the State Bureau of Grain and Material Reserves that in the storage, transportation, and processing links, China’s annual food loss is more than 70 billion catties; in the consumption link, the waste of food is even greater.

Grain wastage rate in the process of purchase, storage and transportation has dropped

According to estimates by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the annual loss of grain storage, transportation, and processing in China is more than 70 billion catties, and the total loss rate of the entire grain industry chain is about 12%

Why does grain loss occur during storage, transportation and processing? Wang Hong, Director of the Department of Safe Storage and Technology of the State Administration of Grain and Material Reserves, said that in the storage and transportation process, farmers’ grain storage losses are still prominent, and some farmers have poor grain storage facilities, lack of scientific grain storage knowledge, and regional post-production drying capacity imbalances.
And so on
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In addition, the aging and unreasonable layout of storage facilities, the low degree of standardized and standardized transportation, the lack of rural logistics equipment, the unscientific transportation organization method, the distribution of grain logistics, and the impact of crushing have also led to food loss

At present, the grain wastage rate has dropped significantly in the links of purchase, storage and transportation
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"Since the implementation of the Special Project for Scientific Grain Storage for Farmers, the main grain production areas have promoted the construction of about 10 million sets of economical, applicable, insect-proof, and mildew-resistant new grain storage equipment.

It is worth noting that the consumption link is still the “hardest hit area” of food waste
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According to survey data from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the amount of food waste in China's catering is about 17 million to 18 million tons per year, which is equivalent to 30 million to 50 million people's rations a year

How to reduce food loss

China's grain output has exceeded 1.
3 trillion catties for six consecutive years, and about 70% of grain enters the consumption field through circulation every year
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How to reduce food loss?

In the process of grain storage and transportation, the application of storage and transportation loss reduction technology can promote grain quality and consumption reduction
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Wang Hong said that China’s warehousing technology is already at an internationally leading level.

Zhang Yongyi, deputy dean of the Academy of Sciences of the State Administration of Grain and Material Reserves, stated that the "horizontal ventilation complete set of grain storage technology for single-storey warehouses" has been used in more than 100 grain depots in 7 grain storage ecological zones and 24 provinces (regions, cities) across the country.
The promotion and application has accumulated more than 3 million tons of grain storage
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The results of the "13th Five-Year Plan" project realized that the loss of rice fresh-keeping storage was controlled within 1%, which improved China's grain storage scientific and technological support capacity; realized the ventilation moisture loss controlled within 0.

In the process of grain processing, appropriate processing and comprehensive utilization technologies should be used to reduce losses
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"We fully advocated appropriate processing and reasonable processing, carried out research and development and promotion of the results of the appropriate processing of bulk grains and oils, avoided excessive processing leading to low yields, and effectively reduced unnecessary food losses and energy consumption

Zhang Yongyi said: “The current'China Good Cereals and Oils' series of standards and the newly revised national standards for wheat flour have introduced appropriate processing technology, further implementing the industry requirements for food savings and reducing losses, and guiding the healthy development of the industry
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"At present, the Food Security Guarantee Law of the National People's Congress legislative plan intends to set up a special chapter on'grain saving'
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Next, we will actively implement the provisions of the "grain circulation management regulations" that have been promulgated
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In the Ministry of Food Security In the assessment of the long-term responsibility system, strengthen the assessment of measures to save and reduce losses and promote local governments to pay close attention to the work of reducing losses and losses.
At the same time, improve the technical standard system for reducing losses and reduce losses and formulate a series of standards for appropriate processing, grain and oil machinery, and comprehensive utilization of by-products
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" Wang Hong Say
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