China News Service, Changchun, December 23 (Gao Longan, Zhou Lijun) Seeing a truckload of corn and recent grain prices, Jilin Dehui farmer Dong Changliang feels more and more happy.
Entering December, the average temperature in Jilin Province continued to drop, and the corn market "heated up" all the way.
During this time, many grain companies in the province raised their purchase prices to attract local and surrounding grain sources.
Dong Changliang, who had been watching food prices before, no longer hesitated to sell his corn.
In mid-December, he drove several tons of corn to a local grain purchasing company. After sample inspection, weighing, and nearly 30 minutes of dumping, a golden hill gradually piled up on the ground, which was also exchanged for Dong Changliang. A considerable income.
Although the 2020 new crown pneumonia epidemic and the three consecutive typhoons have had a certain impact on the agriculture of Jilin Province, these objective factors have not been able to shake its status as a major food province. The "golden card" of Jilin corn is still full of gold. There is also a trend of "booming purchase and sales".
Workers of grain enterprises dry the corn into storage.
Photo by Gao Longan
According to the Jilin Provincial Grain and Material Reserve Bureau, the province’s corn market acquisition progress this year was significantly faster than last year. As of December 21, the enterprises that joined the unified government had purchased 27.11 billion catties of grain, including 21.42 billion catties of corn, an increase of 9.34 billion catties year-on-year.
Zhang Renhe, a farmer who is over 70 in Gongzhuling, Jilin Province, said that he has planted corn for more than 60 years and this year is the best price in his mind.
Good market conditions have given rise to good grain prices, and farmers have become more active in selling grain.
Yin Xiaoyu, a "post-90s" farmer in Dehui, Jilin, is a large local grain grower. This year he has cultivated 100 hectares of corn.
A month ago, he sold all the corn in his family. Although the market price has risen since then, he is still satisfied because the price at that time has far exceeded his expectations.
Yin Xiaoyu recalled that in 2018, the price of corn he sold was about 0.6 yuan per catty, and in 2019 it was about 0.75 yuan per catty. This year his psychological price was originally 0.8 yuan per catty. He did not expect that the corn market would be singing all the way after the fall. When he sold it, the price rose to 1.08 yuan per catty.
"This year's net income is about 800,000 yuan."
Liu Zhe, deputy director of the Grain Reserve Department of the Grain and Material Reserve Bureau of Jilin Province, produced a set of data. In September this year, the open scale price of Jilin corn was 1.05 yuan to 1.07 yuan per catty. By mid-December, the mainstream purchase price was about per catty. From 1.19 yuan to 1.25 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.35 yuan to 0.39 yuan per catty.
The Jilin Province Grain and Material Reserve Bureau learned through investigations that the province’s diversified purchasers generally hold good expectations for corn prices in the later period. After winter and snowfall, lower temperatures are conducive to corn storage. Therefore, grain companies are more willing to buy in the market. The number of state-owned enterprises, grass-roots trading enterprises, drying towers, etc., opened and purchased significantly higher than last year. Judging from the current market data, the pattern of purchase and sale is stable. (Finish)