Just after the Spring Festival, many farmers have been busy buying fertilizers, seeds, pesticides and other agricultural means of production preparations for the spring. Recently, this reporter learned from the agricultural means of production group of Chongqing, Chongqing City fertilizer reserves adequacy, currently has reserves of more than 60 million tons of chemical fertilizer to ensure the spring production. Although 2015 September 1 onwards, the national recovery of fertilizer to increase value-added tax (VAT), once the fertilizer market showed a rising trend, but the domestic fertilizer market surplus, fertilizer supply is greater than the impact on demand, 2016 spring fertilizer prices not only compared to 2015 period fell by about 10%, the price is the lowest value of ten years in Chongqing City fertilizer prices.
More than 60 tons of chemical fertilizer to protect farming production
Chongqing Municipal Agricultural Group Deputy General Manager Gan Yunjie year in Chongqing City fertilizer peak was undoubtedly the spring and summer, the amount of fertilizer about 120 million tons, accounting for 60% of the amount of fertilizer for the annual is introduced. Chongqing city as the largest agricultural circulation enterprises, Chongqing City Agricultural Group is committed to the central and municipal work off-season reserves of chemical fertilizers. From October 2015 winter storage to February of this year, Chongqing City Agricultural Group total reserve of more than 60 million tons of chemical fertilizer spring to ensure supply of agricultural means of production.
As of February 2016, the city agricultural group a total reserve of more than 60 tons of chemical fertilizer to ensure adequate supply of spring production. Due to the spring of Chongqing need manure crops are mainly rice, corn, potato, rape and vegetables, according to the crop fertilizer, the city agricultural chemical fertilizer group reserves also with urea based, reserves reached 30 million tons, accounted for 50% of fat reserves.
Fertilizer prices fell to the lowest in ten years
It is understood that, from September 1, 2015 onwards, the country to restore the value-added tax on fertilizer, once the fertilizer market in China in September 2015, a short increase. But under the impact of the global economy, oil, coal prices lower, domestic chemical fertilizer market overcapacity, oversupply. Therefore, from October 2015, fertilizer prices all the way down, has entered the recent historic low, "the current fertilizer price has dropped to the level of 10 years ago." Gan Yunjie said.
Gan Yunjie introduction, 2016 spring fertilizer prices lower than the same period in 2015 declined by about 10%. Among them, Chongqing City, the largest farmers with urea wholesale price of 1500 yuan / ton, while the same period in 2015 the wholesale price of urea is about 1650 yuan / ton. Another widely used in Chongqing city is a high concentration of fertilizer compound fertilizer, the wholesale price of spring in 2016 is about 1900 yuan / ton.
The change of farmers' fertilizer habit
Compared with previous years, the use of fertilizer habits of farmers in Chongqing is changing year by year. Gan Yunjie, former Chongqing city farmers used fertilizer in urea and ammonium bicarbonate and calcium superphosphate fertilizer element. However, in recent years, Chongqing city to promote the use of compound fertilizers, in particular, some of the new high efficiency and environmental protection of new fertilizers, has been welcomed by farmers.
Such as synergistic urea and by in urea add trace elements to delay its release rate, improve the utilization rate; and such as rapid dissolution in water soluble fertilizer, in recent years in Chongqing city are on the increase.
In addition, with the promotion of soil testing and formulation technology in Chongqing city in recent years, soil testing and formula fertilizer has been gradually popularized in Chongqing city. Chongqing Municipal Agricultural Commission to provide data show that at present the city to promote the measurement technology of formula fertilization by soil area 40.25 million mu, formula fertilizer application area 2029.96 million mu, 47.2 million tons of formula fertilizer application amount and formula fertilizer application amount of fertilizer application amount up to more than 12%.