Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, March 1st (Reporter Wu Tao) Guangdong Province implements financial subsidies to encourage enterprises to collect and store unsalable poultry, aquatic products, vegetables and fruits in order to reduce farmers' losses and ensure stable supply. The agricultural sector is expected to collect a minimum of 33.4 million poultry, 44,000 tons of aquatic products, 116,000 tons of vegetables, fruits and vegetables, and subsidy funds will exceed 130 million yuan.
Guangdong is the country's largest poultry and aquaculture province, with more than 1.2 billion poultry slaughters per year and an annual water output of more than 8 million tons. At the same time, it is also an important base for the transportation of southern vegetables to the north in the winter half of the year. Due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the sales of agricultural products such as poultry, aquatic products, vegetables and fruits in Guangdong have been affected.
In order to avoid a large backlog of planting and aquaculture, slow sales, and lower prices, which has caused serious damage to farmers and the price of key agricultural products, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Provincial Finance Department jointly issued the `` Guangdong Poultry and Aquatic Products Emergency subsidy plan for the acquisition and storage of vegetables and fruits.
According to the plan, Guangdong will reward the emergency collection and storage of poultry, aquatic products, vegetables and fruits, encourage relevant business entities to increase their efforts to collect and store, and focus on solving the problem of backlog of poultry, aquatic products, and vegetables and fruits.
The subsidy period is from February 14, 2020 to the end of epidemic prevention and control. The subsidy targets are provincial purchasing and purchasing enterprises and cooperatives that collect and store more than 100,000 farmed poultry in Guangdong, more than 10 tons of aquatic products, and more than 100 tons of vegetables and fruits. The subsidy standard is RMB 2 per prize for poultry collection and storage, RMB 1,000 per ton for aquatic products storage and storage, and RMB 200 per ton for vegetable, fruit, and fruit purchases and purchases, of which poultry and aquatic products must be stored in stock for more than 30 days.