May wish to store vegetables in multiple channels and improve the mechanism for resolving production risks

Recently, as a result of the steady increase in the control policy and vegetable market supply, vegetable prices have dropped significantly. According to the 35 kinds of vegetables monitored by the Shandong Agricultural Information Center from November 29 to December 5, 31 of them fell in price, 2 The prices remained flat, and the two kinds of prices rose. The average price was 2.96 yuan/kg, which was 6.37% lower than last week. It has continued to decline for three weeks and the rate has expanded, but it still rose by 14.73% over the same period of last year.

The people’s minded vegetable prices make the “vegetable basket project”, which seems to have been almost forgotten, re-enter people's horizons. From the central government to the local government, we hope to use a new “vegetable basket project” to solve the problem of soaring prices of vegetables and other non-staple food products. The problem of greater market volatility, and then manage inflation expectations. The reporter learned that policies and measures for establishing local reserves from the national requirements to the implementation of opinions in our province have been mentioned repeatedly.

In the 1930s, Benjamin Graham, an American economist and "The Godfather of Wall Street," stated in his book "Reserve and Stabilization" that compared with the government's direct intervention in the market, it uses reserves to store or store goods. Selling, management results will be better and more direct.

Since the beginning of this year, China has repeatedly started the mechanism for stabilizing commodity reserves. Compared to the country’s reserve and placement system for bulk agricultural products such as grain, pork, and sugar, there are few vegetable reserves. It is reported that in September this year, in order to ensure the supply of the “vegetable basket” market during the holiday season, the Qingdao Municipal Commerce Department puts 4,100 tons of pork, 2,500 tons of onions, potatoes and other vegetables and 600 tons of soy products in batches in the city’s shopping malls and raw pork sales points. Waiting for "vegetable baskets" of reserve commodities, the month achieved good policy results. Liaocheng City organized vegetable winter storage under the condition of guaranteeing market supply. At present, 1,250 tons of Chinese cabbage and 800 tons of radish have been stored, which can basically ensure that residents in urban areas need to use it for a week.

Sun Jixiang, deputy director of the Planting Division of the Provincial Department of Agriculture, told reporters that with the establishment of a large-scale production, large market, and large circulation, the vegetable basket product has long been out of the shortage period, and supply will not be a problem under normal conditions. However, in the process of urbanization, the area of ​​suburban agricultural products has been reduced, production bases have gradually shifted to rural areas, and circulation has increased; many farmers have changed from producers to consumers, and the proportion of food and meat has also increased; The market was opened earlier. Due to factors such as information dissemination, disaster weather, and speculation in hot money, local, seasonal and structural food basket production and consumption have been ups and downs, which has caused adverse effects on farmers and consumers.

For the establishment of a vegetable reserve system, Sun Jixiang believes that this is a better policy choice, but taking into account the characteristics of vegetables that are difficult to store, and adopting government subsidies, the mode of corporate reserve is the main choice. He also stated that vegetable reserves must be placed in farmers' vegetable gardens and sheds. Therefore, it is particularly necessary to improve the mechanism for resolving production risks, and in particular to develop policy-based agricultural insurance for basket products.