Has entered the peak of spring plowing, fertilizer and other agricultural prices rose sharply this year, causing a large number of farmers, family farms and farmers worried. Fertilizer prices rose, while food prices do not rise, becoming the biggest problem facing the fertilizer market.
Peng Jun, Anhui, Jiangsu, Danyang City, the town of the original more than 1 thousand acres of land transfer of food crops, fertilizer prices rose this year, he found it hard to bear the price of food and drink, and the price of fertilizer was more than $. Bulk urea last spring when every 50 kilograms of only 80 yuan, in September last year, only 73 yuan, now risen to 97 yuan; fertilizer per 50 kg rose 30 yuan. According to Peng Jun estimates, a quarter of a year of rice and a quarter of wheat, with 50 kg of urea per acre, compound fertilizer of 100 kg. According to the current price of fertilizer, a grain of land per acre at least 80 yuan a year.
Jiangsu Taicang large grain Wang Dejun cost account is about 500 acres of land requires about 50 tons of compound fertilizer. The same land, fertilizer, calculated at 2200 yuan per ton, this year, an increase of more than $37 thousand and 400 last year, fertilizer costs, increase the cost of $74.8 per mu. In other words, this year, 50 tons of compound equivalent to last year's price of 67 tons of compound fertilizer.
Liu Xueyou, Henan, Xixian County, is one of the first farmers to contract land. Package for 16 years, the current transfer of land of about 16 thousand acres, accounting for about 1% of the county's arable land, known as the "king of Henan grain". Liu Xueyou admitted that it is now the most difficult time for grain, grain prices are low, difficult to sell food, a lot of people can not support. Liu Xueyou said that he knew the large grain in 2016 70% benefit is not good, some people lost one hundred or two hundred yuan an acre of land, many farmers choose another way of living. Land contract fees, wages and employment of farmers and other agricultural costs have been increasing in recent years, agricultural prices rose about 30% this year." Currently, Liu Xueyou contracted acres of land cost nearly a thousand dollars.
So, how to resolve the contradiction between fertilizer prices and food prices?
The author believes that, mainly rely on two points:
First, the fertilizer manufacturers to self-discipline, not to market speculation, to maintain a reasonable price. Chemical fertilizer for agricultural services, if the price is too high, farmers lose money, are reluctant to farm, and fertilizer to whom?
Two farmers should take the initiative to adjust the planting structure, planting a variety of high value-added crops. The same is wheat, high quality wheat than the general price of wheat to be higher than 0.6 yuan per kilogram, the highest purchase price of more than $2.6 per kg. Planting a lot of common wheat farmers lose money, while the cultivation of high-quality wheat farmers can reach 200 yuan per mu net profit. It is understood that in Shanxi, the cultivation of the same area of grains than wheat, corn investment of less than 50%, high income of 24%. This document is clear, the implementation of the quality and efficiency of agricultural characteristic advantage action plan, promotion of Cereals, vegetables and fruits, tea, sericulture, flower seedlings, mushroom, Chinese herbal medicine and the characteristics of breeding industry upgrading, the local native and small varieties make big industry led farmers to increase their incomes.