Xinhua Viewpoint: The High Price of Wuchang Rice

Xinhua News Agency’s “Xinhua Viewpoint” column broadcasted on January 2 “Who took away the high profits of high-priced rice” survey and reported that organic rice prices in Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province were high, but rice farmers did not receive reasonable profits, causing strong social attention. On the 19th, Duchangchun, Vice Mayor of Wuchang City, said in an interview with reporters: “The issue of Xinhua News Agency is a good one. The benefits of this piece of organic rice are indeed different from that of the enterprise. Xinhua News Agency’s report has helped the farmers and the enterprise. Being helpful helps the government as well. The Wuchang Municipal Government is determined to study this matter well and to combine the interests of the enterprise and the farmers and really increase the income of the peasants."

How expensive is Wuchang rice? The Spring Festival approached. On the 18th and 19th the reporter visited the market for two consecutive days. At a “green food franchise store” at the intersection of Hongxiang Road and Meishun Street in Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Wuchang’s “organic rice scented” rice with a box of ten pounds and a total price of 499 yuan is placed on the shelves facing the entrance of the store. . In-store sales personnel introduced, "This is not the most expensive." Then came up with a price of 99.9 yuan a pound of "BRIC", this vacuum-packed "BRIC" per box 10 pounds, price 999.9 yuan, The store's special sales label shows a price of 898 yuan per box.

In Wuchang City, a company called "Ruimi Xuan" in the store's reporter saw a 10 kg load "old nutrition companion" organic rice, priced at 299 yuan.

Yao Guoxiu, chief of the Department of Organic Medicine at the Heilongjiang Provincial Green Food Office, explained that rice is currently divided into organic rice, green rice, and ordinary rice in terms of cost, output, and price. The cultivation of organic rice is not allowed to invest in chemical drugs and pesticides. It requires more labor and lower output. The price on the market is more than ten yuan or even a few tens of pounds. The cost of ordinary rice cultivation is relatively small, allowing the use of pesticides and fertilizers. Higher, a few dollars per catty on the market. Green rice allows the use of a certain amount of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The output and price are between organic rice and ordinary rice. The same is true for Wuchang rice.

According to some rice processing companies, Wuchang’s high-priced rice is mostly “organic rice”. Generally, it is more than 20 yuan per catty, and there are also a lot of 40-60 yuan per catty. Nowadays, Wuchang rice, which is sold in supermarkets with a price of less than ten yuan per kilogram, is mostly plain rice or green rice. The quality and price are much different from those of organic rice. However, due to the sound of Wuchang's brand, its ordinary rice prices are also The water rose.

Du Zechun introduced that Wuchang City now has a rice planting area of ​​1.86 million mu, of which organic rice planting area is 210,000 mu. Calculated according to an average yield of 1100 kg/mu, the annual output of organic rice in Wuchang City should be 230 million kg, accounting for about 10% of the total output. One in a minute. Wuchang City's “organic rice” mostly goes to mid-to-high-end markets such as franchise stores. Because such rice sells a few dollars a pound, it must lose money.

Five yuan rice per jin of 199 yuan in the end there is no? According to a deputy director of the Fengxi Organic Rice Farmers' Professional Cooperative, the cooperative does produce an antioxidant organic rice, mainly for high-end people. It is used by some big companies and big companies for gifts, and the output is very small. Wuchang City Agriculture Bureau Director Yi Yanchen said that the price of 199 yuan per kilogram is there, is an antioxidant organic rice, the planting area of ​​this kind of rice is about 1000 acres, and the output is about 5.5 million kilograms.

The latest survey by the reporter found that the “order troubles” of some farmers in Wuchang City continued. The farmers and farmers of Shuangshan Village Laozi Village in the city’s Xiaozi Town told reporters that it was difficult for the recent rice purchase contract to perform. Due to breach of contract on purchase orders, the repayment of agricultural loans due in December each year has been delayed. "This has a great impact on the lives of farmers."

Experts said that Wuchang’s issue of “Mi Gui also hurts farmers” is not an isolated issue. It reflects the stubborn illness in the circulation system of agricultural products in China. “In the construction of a coordination mechanism for the interests of agricultural enterprises, the government can not be absent, and it is necessary to fall the rich industry into account. Real place."

How to fundamentally solve the market problem of high-price Wuchang rice, Tian Baoqiang, a researcher at Heilongjiang Provincial Academy of Social Sciences Research Institute of Rural Development, believes that order agriculture exists in a contractual relationship, and the company may experience operational difficulties and may also be in default. The core of solving the problem is to improve the degree of organization of farmers, establish professional farmer cooperatives, and increase the market confrontation ability through large-scale operations and industrialization to ensure the maximization of farmers' interests. The government must strengthen the coordination of the interests of agricultural enterprises and avoid ambiguous order clauses causing other problems, and severely crack down on non-performance of the contract.