Agricultural materials prices is one of the main factors affect farmers' enthusiasm for production, threatening food stable. In the spring broadcast equipment in full swing at the same time, the price of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, seed, fuel and other agricultural quietly rose is spreading, and how to ensure that the enthusiasm of farmers planting efficiency and production? The reporter for this investigation.
Quietly rise in agricultural prices
In recent days, the farmers are busy buying seeds, planted last year, Anhui cultivated glutinous rice seeds, I feel good this year, a look at the price per kilogram rose by more than one money up too hard! "Huaiyuan County, MA The town farmers Meng Yafei told reporters. Similarly, the found the Suixi virtues town is busy purchasing fertilizer the farmers, fertilizer prices on the market this year than last year, much higher, "bought more than 20 bags of urea applied at jointing fertilizer bag is more expensive than last year nearly 10 dollars . virtues town kinds of large grain He Xiuying said.
Provincial Price Bureau and the market price regulation at the monitoring data show that the third week of March, ammonium bicarbonate, urea, NPK fertilizer prices compared with last year were up 3.90%, 6.98%, 4.66%, three fertilizer price rose 5.79%, significant gains.
Sheng Nongwei sample point survey by the end of February, the general seed prices stable, but some varieties of prices. Two-line rice seed prices rose 5.64 percent over last year, priced at 50-80 yuan / kg; individual varieties of maize rose by about 10 percent over the previous year, most of the hybrid corn seed priced at 12-20 yuan / kg; the cottonseeds prices compared with last year up 10-15%, priced at 200-260 yuan / kg.
With the advance of agricultural mechanization, agricultural fuel consumption to increase, become an important part of the agricultural costs. The data show that since 2008, and No. 0 diesel oil prices rising, the unit price within five years, per liter, an increase of $ 2.4, -10 # diesel oil rose to 8.93 yuan / liter from 2008 to 6.38 yuan / liter.
Cost-push to become the main cause of
"Every year in spring, agricultural prices are cyclical rise. Provincial Price Bureau and the market price regulation at the official said, which is mainly during this period due to demand. Another more important reason, is subject to cost-push impact of the rising costs of agricultural materials production enterprises forced to improve the ex-factory price of the product.
Hui Long shares the person in charge, the main reason for urea price rise over the same period last year, coal, natural gas and electricity prices, making significantly push up the cost of urea production. Once again, fertilizer railway freight increase, the recent oil price increases, making the highway and waterway freight rose. In addition, production workers and logistics handling personnel, rising labor costs, also stimulating the production costs.
Market analysis, fertilizer prices rose mainly due to the real estate regulation impact of alkali production and underemployment, and ammonium chloride significantly reduced production, market demand, prices soared to 300 yuan / ton in the beginning of the year to the end of March, the cost of fertilizer production greatly improved.
In the breeding industry in Anhui Province Tsuen Bank AG, the official told reporters, with last year, a variety of increased production costs, the price of seeds is bound to improve.
Increase subsidies stable grain-effective
Agricultural materials known as food food and agricultural prices go up, bound to affect the efficiency and production of farmers planting positive, stable spring production, you must first stabilize agricultural prices.
The most direct and effective means to increase the intensity of the comprehensive agricultural subsidies, establish and improve the linkage mechanism for fast and flexible agricultural prices and subsidies. "Xingnong Wei, the official said, and not let the benefits of agricultural policies to farmers with to the benefits, agricultural materials prices excessively dilutive.
Reporters learned from the Provincial Department of Finance to compensate for the impact of diesel oil and agricultural prices for grain farmers, at the beginning of the year have been allocated 5.972 billion yuan of grain subsidy on the basis of the recent provincial finance department issued a central new comprehensive agricultural subsidies 1.149 billion yuan, 13.67 yuan standard in accordance with per acre payment to grain farmers, these subsidies are to some extent, eased the pressure of the farmers.
"The streamlining of the circulation can be effective in cost savings." The person in charge of the province Fertilizer Association, the relevant departments to guide enterprises to implement the fertilizer supply model, so the manufacturers directly to the fertilizer sold to farmers.
Support for manufacturing enterprises, from the source to reduce agricultural prices. The experts pointed out that the manufacturers of the major agricultural supplies category, the state energy price increases, can be considered appropriate to increase the cost of production given the production subsidies. On this basis, with pricing guidance and effective supervision of the market selling price of the agricultural enterprises, ahead of the cost factors of prices digest. (Shrek)