Chinanews.com, February 26th. According to the website of the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau, the State Food and Material Reserve Bureau issued the "Notice on Further Acquiring Autumn Grain in Northeast China in the Situation of New Crown Pneumonia" (hereinafter referred to as " Notice"). The "Notice" mentioned that all localities must strictly implement the responsibility system for governors of food security and firmly adhere to the bottom line of "growing grain for farmers".
The "Notice" states that at present, the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has entered a critical stage. According to the relevant deployment requirements of the State Council ’s joint prevention and control mechanism for the stabilization of production and supply of agricultural products, the relevant government departments have agreed to extend the deadline for the implementation of the 2019 minimum purchase price plan for mid-late rice in Northeast China to March 31, 2020.
The "Notice" emphasized that China Storage Grain Group Corporation should strengthen the awareness of the overall situation and service, and effectively fulfill the responsibility of the main body of the implementation of the minimum purchase price policy. Do everything possible to expand the ability to collect and store, rationally set up acquisition outlets, increase outlets in key areas and time periods to meet farmers' demand for grain sales, and play a supporting role in the minimum purchase price policy.
The "Notice" requires that all localities strictly implement the responsibility system for governors of food security. Under the unified leadership of the local party committee, government and epidemic prevention and control headquarters, strengthen coordination and communication, innovate ways and methods, and coordinate the scientific prevention and control and autumn grain purchases. When necessary, measures such as temporary provincial collection and storage can be introduced, and relevant expenditures must be borne by the local government, and the bottom line of farmers' "growing grains" can be firmly maintained. It is necessary to organize various market entities to resume work and production as soon as possible, carry out market-oriented acquisitions, support and guide qualified enterprises to strive to expand acquisitions, strengthen grain production and sales cooperation, not only ease the pressure on local grain sales, but also protect the grain consumption needs of southern provinces. Central enterprises and local state-owned enterprises should take the lead in entering the market and play a demonstration and leading role. Reserve enterprises at all levels should actively purchase and rotate food sources to play a leading role in reserve throughput. It is necessary to strictly implement the requirements of Document No. 3 of the National Electric Power [2020], coordinate relevant departments to include food into the scope of daily necessities during epidemic prevention and control, and in addition to the rapid temperature detection of drivers, strictly implement no stopping, no inspection, Priority and convenient traffic measures, such as no charge, ensure smooth road transportation.
The "Notice" clearly states that localities should further strengthen their services to farmers. Try to adopt the whole village advancement, appointment purchase, home purchase and other methods to guide farmers to orderly peak sales of grain. For farmers who have no willingness to sell grain for the time being, it is necessary to effectively strengthen the guidance of scientific grain storage in the courtyard to avoid the occurrence of large-scale mold and bad grain incidents.