Grain "destocking" is the "bull nose" of purchasing and storage work -- Ren Zhengxiao, director of the State Grain Administration, responds to hot issues of grain

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Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 26, how to view China's food security situation? How to "de-stocking" grain? How to avoid farmers "difficult to sell grain"? How to keep good food rations security? Faced with the current hot issues in China's food sector, the State Grain Administration Director Ren Zhengxiao 26 at the State Council Information Office held a press conference to respond one by one.

China's grain production and demand will be in a tight balance for a long time.

"The current food security situation in my country is very good, but in the long run, my country's food production and demand will remain in a tight balance for a long time, and the food security situation is still severe." Ren Zhengxiao said.

Ren Zhengxiao said that my country's grain production has achieved "twelve consecutive increases", and the purchase and inventory of grain have also risen. The market has a very sufficient source of grain, and all aspects of grain demand have been continuously and reliably guaranteed.

However, China's food demand is also growing at the same time, with an average annual production and demand gap of 19.8 billion kg. Especially in the long run, China's population will continue to grow, and the food converted from meat, eggs and milk consumption will increase day by day, which will directly lead to the rigid growth of food consumption.

At the same time, the rigid constraints on grain production, such as cultivated land freshwater resources and the bearing capacity of the ecological environment, are becoming more and more prominent, and it is more difficult to further increase grain production. China's food security will also face the dual challenges of rigid growth in consumption and rigid production constraints for a long time.

Grain“Destocking”Is the collection and storage work“cow nose”

How to "go to the stock" of food? Ren Zhengxiao said that the reasonable digestion of food stocks is to do a good job of the entire food collection and storage of the "bull's nose". This year, the contradiction between grain collection and storage is unprecedented, and the pressure of warehouse capacity shortage is unprecedented.

Ren Zhengxiao said that in the face of severe difficulties and challenges, relevant state departments and local governments at all levels should arrange and deploy grain collection and storage work as soon as possible, and mobilize and prepare early. At present, we are making every effort to prepare for the purchase of summer grain before opening the scale.

"The top priority is to take multiple measures to prepare storage capacity and increase storage capacity." Ren Zhengxiao said, first of all, we must pay close attention to the sale of grain and make every effort to digest grain stocks. In the first April of this year, the amount of grain sold out of the warehouse and processed and converted grain has rebounded. At present, the targeted sales and transfer of corn have begun to start, giving priority to the sale of summer grain in major producing areas and areas where grain storage capacity is in short supply, freeing up storage capacity as much as possible and purchasing new grain.

Ren Zhengxiao revealed that at present, the grain departments in the main summer grain producing areas have formulated purchase and storage plans to facilitate the sale of grain by various grain sellers, optimize purchase services, improve service measures, and strive to avoid farmers getting together to sell grain and long lines. phenomenon.

Take multiple measures to invigorate the circulation of corn

When talking about how to solve the problem of farmers' corn sales, Ren Zhengxiao said that more measures should be taken to invigorate corn circulation and protect the interests of grain farmers.

First of all, we should actively guide the multi-subject into the market to collect grain. After the reform of the corn storage system, the market-oriented acquisition of multiple subjects will be a normal state. The state and local governments will increase credit support for corn purchases, strengthen market information services, encourage and support the majority of corn purchasing, storage and processing enterprises to broaden purchase channels, and purchase farmers' corn well.

Secondly, state-owned grain enterprises should take the lead in entering the market to collect grain and do everything possible to solve problems for farmers; they should also organize and encourage feed enterprises, corn processing and transformation enterprises, and food processing enterprises to speed up the processing and transformation of corn.

At the same time, it is necessary to optimize the market environment, strengthen the supervision and inspection of the grain purchase market, and severely crack down on behaviors such as reducing grades and prices, and "beating white bars" to protect the interests of farmers.

keep the rations safe“Five passes”

When talking about how to ensure the safety of the people's food rations, Ren Zhengxiao said that in recent years, we have worked with relevant departments to ensure five passes:

One is to check the purchase and storage of good grain, and unsafe grain is not allowed to be put into storage.

The second is to check the daily grain in stock to prevent mildew.

The third is to check the government departments of the spot check, the quality of enterprise grain storage to carry out spot check supervision.

The fourth is to close the sale of good grain out of the warehouse to prevent the sale of toxic and harmful grain out of the warehouse.

The fifth is to control the supervision of toxic and harmful food, and immediately seal up the food that has been inspected and determined to be toxic and harmful, and then implement targeted treatment and full supervision.

Through the strict control of the above five gates, we can effectively prevent toxic and harmful food from entering the ration market and ensure the quality and safety of food.

Regarding Chen Hualiang, Ren Zhengxiao said that in the past few years, some people directly equated Chen Hualiang as "poisonous grain." This is incorrect and unscientific. Whether the food in stock is toxic and harmful mainly depends on whether the aflatoxin and vomiting toxin exceed the national health and safety standards. The production of these mycotoxins is mainly affected by the storage temperature, humidity and other environments, and is not directly related to the length of storage time and whether it is an aged grain.