The positive effects of corn collection and storage system reform are gradually emerging.

XINHUA News Agency, Beijing, February 6 (Reporters Hu Wei and Wang Libin) In 2016, the state adjusted the policy of temporary corn collection and storage to a new mechanism of "market-oriented acquisition" and "producer subsidy", and the reform has made breakthrough progress and positive effects are gradually emerging.
Han Jun, deputy director of the office of the Central Leading Group on Rural Work, said at a press conference held by the State Administration of China on the 6th that the price formation mechanism of important agricultural products such as grain and the reform of the storage system are the key plays of structural reform on the agricultural supply side, and the reform of the corn collection and storage system is one of the hard battles. This reform has activated the market and promoted the entry of diversified purchase and sale entities into the market. Compared with the backlog of corn stocks in Northeast China, affected by the reform of corn collection and storage system, the "North Grain South Transport" after the new corn market in 2016 is very active. With the price began to follow the market, the downstream price relationship in the corn market gradually straightened out, the scale of corn processing continues to expand, processing enterprises operating rate rebounded significantly.
data show that this reform is also beginning to improve the competitiveness of domestic corn. Since July 2013, domestic and foreign corn prices began to "upside down", to May and June 2015, the difference between domestic and foreign corn per ton as high as 1000 yuan, resulting in a substantial increase in imports of corn and its substitutes. After the reform of corn collection and storage system, corn prices at home and abroad have gradually been flat. By January 2017, domestic corn prices have been lower than the foreign import-to-shore tax price of 50 yuan per ton, imported corn price advantage is no longer apparent.
said the goal of reforming the corn harvest and storage system to promote agricultural structural adjustment is beginning to be achieved. In previous years, due to the relatively high efficiency of corn cultivation, a large number of farmers abandoned soybeans to grow corn. After the price of corn returned to the market, although the producer subsidy system guaranteed the basic income of farmers to grow corn, the comparative income of corn cultivation was adjusted to a certain extent, which promoted the optimization of agricultural structure. In 2016, the country's grain corn was reduced by 30 million mu, and farmers began to grow some other crops.
" In accordance with the requirements of the 2017 Central Document No. 1, the next step will be to adhere to and improve the minimum purchase price policy for wheat and rice, reasonably determine the minimum purchase price level, so that it reflects the market supply and demand, increase price adjustment flexibility, and promote the formation of a reasonable price relationship between different food varieties. Han Jun said.