"I feel this pesticide, fertilizer prices compared to last year are similar, says shop owner can not be less." May 26, when we inquire about the situation of agricultural prices this year, Xiangtan County farmer Tianai Zhen Shi Tan Zhen Shi Takemura this told us, however, we learned from the Municipal Cost Investigation Team this year, the city's agricultural real wholesale prices lower than last year.
"According to the end of April early May for a special investigation, fertilizer prices fall. Fertilizer in the agricultural in very large proportion of the surveyed households in 2013 accounted for a total demand of fertilizer this year, the total amount of agricultural purchase 83.07%. "City Cost Investigation Team officials told us. Market wholesale price of fertilizer this year compared to last year fall is undoubtedly good news, such as 46% of the urea price 2280 yuan / ton, down 200 yuan / ton, down 8.06%; 17.5% of ammonium bicarbonate the price is 750 yuan / ton, down 100 yuan / ton, down 11.76%; content of 40% of the fertilizer price of 2250 yuan / ton, down 230 yuan / ton, down 9.27%; content of 25% fertilizer price is 1330 yuan / ton, down 120 yuan / ton, down 13.28 percent. However, due to the intermediate transport turnover increased costs, in addition to 40% of the fertilizer retail prices decreased by about 200 yuan per ton, the other fertilizer retail price is roughly equal to last year.
Fertilizer prices, farmers are difficult to enjoy the benefits. Survey showed that the average retail price of fertilizer on the basis of the wholesale price increase of 5% to 10% of the profits, individual large-scale growers because purchase, agricultural wholesalers may purchase price at wholesale prices or direct sales, general farmers to purchase agricultural channels due to different purchase price is not much difference with last year, while farmers in remote areas you need to spend a higher price. 25% of the fertilizer, for example, large-scale agricultural wholesale price is 1330 yuan / ton, the actual retail price was 73-75 yuan / 50 kg a bag, or about 1500 yuan / ton. Some remote small agricultural store is sold to 1625-1650 yuan / ton, and some even sold 1,700 yuan / ton, the retail price and the wholesale price maximum difference 370 yuan / ton, equivalent to 0.37 yuan / kg; 40% fertilizer wholesale price 2250-2300 yuan / ton, the retail price of 2600 yuan / ton to 2,720 yuan / ton, the highest retail prices and some sold for 2800 yuan / ton, the retail price and the wholesale price highest spread is 550 yuan / ton.
Talking about this phenomenon, Xiangtan City, biotechnology School (formerly Xiangtan Agricultural School), Professor Xuqi De believes that government departments should strengthen the agricultural spring summer planting period of mobilization, organization levels villages, farmers need to keep abreast of agricultural statistics the number of , breed, adopt the way purchase and sale directly from the manufacturer or the dealer where large agricultural unified transport, reduce intermediate links, to minimize the price of agricultural households, so that farmers really enjoy the benefits of agricultural policy benefits. Meanwhile, agricultural departments at all levels should do a good job on the agricultural market macro-control and do a good job on the scientific guidance of agricultural suppliers, rational transporting, preclude excessive and shoddy agricultural surplus agricultural materials into the market phenomenon, to ensure that farmers able to purchase the quality and cheap agricultural.