CCTV News:
In this round of epidemic, many fertilizer companies in Linshu, Shandong, one of the top ten chemical fertilizer production bases in China, have encountered difficulties such as shortage of raw materials, blocked transportation, and shortage of manpower.
Facing the difficulties, the local government set up a special service class and introduced a number of measures to ensure the stable production and supply of fertilizer enterprises.
Right now is the golden period for the supply of agricultural materials. However, when the reporter came to this leading agricultural material enterprise in Linshu, Shandong, half of the workshops faced closure due to shortage of raw materials.
Just when the company was at a loss, the local government actively helped the company to apply to the state to reserve potash fertilizer.
Soon, the first batch of raw potash fertilizers from China Agricultural Production Materials Group and Sinochem Group were delivered to the workshop, but the new trouble was that the processed products could not be shipped out.
Such encounters are not unique to local agricultural materials enterprises. In order to help enterprises tide over the difficulties, the government has established a special work class and introduced nine measures to help enterprises, especially focusing on the implementation of the advance reporting system for agricultural materials transport vehicles, and Send pick-up specialist tracking service.
During the process from the expressway to the unloading of the enterprise, the driver did not get off the bus and complied with the requirements of closed-loop management. The reporter interviewed the driver only through video calls.
In order to further stabilize production, employees of major enterprises have resumed their normal commute to get off work with their passes while taking safety precautions.
In order to overcome the difficulties together with agricultural enterprises, Shandong has given priority to ensuring the supply of raw materials such as coal and natural gas required for fertilizer production.
Increase credit support for fertilizer production and distribution enterprises, and successively introduced a series of measures such as tax cuts and discounted loans.
In the first quarter, three batches of state reserve fertilizers have been released to guide market expectations
In the next step, the National Development and Reform Commission and other relevant departments will actively take a series of measures such as increasing domestic production, expanding imports, placing reserves, and strengthening market supervision according to the domestic and foreign fertilizer market situation to ensure supply and stable prices.
In order to ensure the supply of chemical fertilizers for spring ploughing and domestic potash fertilizers and the need for emergency chemical fertilizers after the disaster, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance planned in advance. As early as 2020, on the basis of the original national commercial fertilizer reserves in the off-season, the national fertilizer commercial reserve system was optimized and established. There are three reserves of potash fertilizer and disaster relief fertilizer, with a total reserve of nearly 10 million tons per year.
Since March this year, two batches of more than 6 million tons of spring ploughing reserve fertilizer and 1 million tons of national potash fertilizer reserves have been successively deployed to the market to fully meet the demand for spring ploughing fertilizer.
The State Reserve potash fertilizer began to be put into the Northeast region and the main grain producing areas such as Henan, Hebei and Hubei in late March, and it was lower than the spot price of the market.