Far and wide, there are hard moves! How can the top ten provinces with per capita pork consumption ensure supply？
Pork is the most important meat food for most residents in China. Recently, with the rising price of pork, everyone feels that the "vegetable basket" has sunk. According to the latest monitoring data of the Ministry of Commerce, from September 2 to 8, the national market price of edible agricultural products rose by 0.9% compared with the previous week, and the wholesale price of meat slowed down. The wholesale price of pork was 35.11 yuan per kilogram, up 1.5% from the previous month, and the growth rate dropped by 7.4 percentage points from the previous week.
Previously, various ministries and commissions have intensively introduced policy support at the national level, and at the same time, various provinces have also introduced relevant policies to ensure market supply according to local conditions. According to the news from the Chinese government website on September 10th, the General Office of the State Council recently issued the Opinions on Stabilizing Pig Production and Promoting Transformation and Upgrading, which first put forward the general requirement that the provinces should take overall responsibility, and emphasized that the people’s governments of all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) should take overall responsibility for stabilizing pig production and ensuring market supply in their respective regions.
Since April 2019, 29 provinces across the country have launched a price subsidy linkage mechanism for people in need in response to the rise in pork prices, with a total payment of more than 2 billion yuan and subsidies for more than 80 million people in need. At the same time, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Jiangxi and other provinces issued notices to ensure the supply of pork through policy means.
China is a big producer and consumer of live pigs, with the number of live pigs in stock, slaughter and pork production ranking first in the world, and half of the world’s pigs are raised in China. From the perspective of per capita pork consumption, public data show that in 2017, Sichuan Province ranked first with per capita pork consumption of 36.16 kg, and Chongqing, Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces were all on the list. Zhejiang ranked 10th in the national per capita pork consumption with 21.91 kg/person. According to the ranking of the top 10 provinces with per capita pork consumption in 2017, the reporter from The Paper sorted out the corresponding pork supply guarantee measures in these provinces.
Sichuan: There are more than 1 million basic security tasks in 17 cities and states in the province.
Sichuan is the largest province of pig breeding and pork consumption in China. Xiao Xiaoyu, a member of the leading group of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, once told the media that one out of every 10 pigs in the country comes from Sichuan. According to the monitoring of Sichuan pig monitoring and early warning system, in the second week of August, 2019, the prices of live pigs in 67 monitoring counties continued to rise in an all-round way. The average retail price of pork and the price difference between meat and pigs reached a record high in 11 years, and the average price of fattening pigs was only one step away from the historical highest price, and the pig-to-food ratio and pig-to-feed ratio were only one step away from the historical high. This week, the average retail price of fattening pigs, piglets, sows and pork increased by 1.77 yuan/kg, 1.15 yuan/kg, 19.00 yuan/head and 2.94 yuan/kg respectively.
In the face of rising pork prices, on August 19th, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Sichuan Province took the lead in drafting the Notice on Printing and Distributing Nine Measures for Promoting Pig Production and Ensuring Market Supply in the Province (Draft for Comment), which was devoted to promoting pig production and ensuring market supply. The "Notice" put forward nine measures, namely: improving the modern pig breeding system and vigorously promoting standardized pig breeding; Optimize the land space planning and effectively implement the land for the development of pig industry; Comprehensively promote the combination of planting and breeding, and carry out in-depth utilization of livestock manure; Strengthen the prevention and control of major animal diseases and effectively improve the level of biological safety; Strengthen the supervision of pig slaughtering and vigorously promote the transformation and upgrading of slaughtering and processing industry; Strictly implement the mayor responsibility system of "vegetable basket" and improve the supply guarantee mechanism of pork market; Coordinate financial and insurance support policies and strengthen the guarantee of pig production funds; Conscientiously implement the responsibility of animal epidemic prevention and severely crack down on illegal activities; Improve the animal epidemic prevention system and strengthen the construction of grassroots animal husbandry and veterinary teams.
The Basic Guarantee Task for Pig Production in Sichuan Province, which was issued together, mentioned that the basic guarantee task for pig production in Sichuan Province was set at 40.08 million pigs a year. Except Aba and Ganzi, the basic guarantee task for 17 cities and counties in other 19 cities and counties in the province was above 1 million pigs, among which Nanchong and Dazhou slaughtered more than 3 million pigs a year, and Chengdu slaughtered 5.56 million pigs a year.
Chongqing: short-term loan discount support is given to pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 pigs.
In the first half of this year, Chongqing’s CPI rose by 2.3%, of which pork prices rose by 12.5%, pushing food prices up by 1.8 percentage points, which was the first reason to push food prices up. Li Taoming, deputy head of the Chongqing Investigation Corps of the National Bureau of Statistics and spokesperson, said, "The increase in pork prices is mainly due to the frustration of farmers due to the epidemic of swine fever in Africa last year. The stock of pigs and sows has been in a downward trend, and the supply of pigs continues to be tight, pushing up the price level of pork in the market."
On September 9th, in order to promote the stable production and supply of the pig industry, Chongqing Municipal Finance Bureau and Chongqing Municipal Commission of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued a discount plan for working capital loans for pig breeding enterprises, and provided short-term loan discount support to breeding farms (including local pig breeding farms) and large-scale pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 pigs. The focus of this discount range is the production liquidity used by related enterprises to buy feed, sows and piglets. The discount period is from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2020, and is arranged once a year.
In addition, the plan also requires Chongqing Agricultural Financing Guarantee Group Co., Ltd. to give full play to its policy functions and actively provide credit guarantee services for breeding farms (including local pig breeding farms) and large-scale pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 pigs. Implement extension guarantee for farm households whose guaranteed loans expire, and promote banks and other financial institutions to implement non-repayment of loans; The guarantee balance provided for single-family farms shall not exceed 10 million yuan; For 2 million yuan — Guarantee projects between 10 million yuan (inclusive) can be included in the scope of "double control" assessment from May 28, 2019 to October 31, 2019, and can enjoy the guarantee fee subsidy and business reward policy according to regulations.
Guangxi: The self-sufficiency rate of pork supply in each city should reach 100%
Affected by African swine fever, the loss of live pigs in Guangdong and Guangxi was the most serious, and the local live pigs in Guangxi rose the earliest and the largest. According to public information, in July this year, the average price of three yuan out of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region was 22.4 yuan/kg, up by 60.0% from the beginning of the month, making it the highest price area in China.
On August 20th, Chen Wu, Chairman of the Autonomous Region and Commander of the African Classical Swine Fever Prevention and Control Command of the Autonomous Region, said that it is necessary to focus on restoring pig production and ensuring meat supply, and effectively protect people’s livelihood needs. Strictly implement the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, implement the red line system for pig production, and incorporate 100% self-sufficiency in pig supply into the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system assessment; Resume pig production as soon as possible, organize a team of technical experts to go deep into counties and townships to carry out technical training and guidance, support and encourage large-scale pig farms to upgrade and transform according to the requirements of non-prevention, speed up the replenishment and increase breeding, encourage the layout of slaughtering and processing capacity to breeding concentration areas, and promote the development of the whole industrial chain of breeding, slaughtering and processing; Do a good job in frozen pork reserves, start the pig price control plan in a timely manner, reduce the fluctuation range of pig prices, and stabilize the pork market supply; Develop the production of alternative meat products such as poultry meat, actively develop high-quality poultry industry with short production cycle and strong substitution, and optimize the meat supply structure.
On September 1st, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued "Opinions on Winning the Fight against African Swine Fever and Stabilizing Pig Production to Ensure the Supply of Meat Market", proposing to implement the red line system of pig production, and the self-sufficiency rate of pork supply in each city should reach 100%, which will be used as the assessment content of the mayor’s responsibility system of "vegetable basket". The net transfer of live pigs from cities and counties will be rewarded by coordinating relevant funds. Strengthen the early warning of market information, carry out breeding risk assessment, guide farms (households) to re-raise, and effectively resume pig production. To maintain the normal circulation order of the pig market, it is not allowed to increase the embargo and set up administrative barriers, and focus on ensuring the normal transportation of breeding pigs and piglets in large-scale pig farms. Timely start the pig price control plan and expand the scale of frozen pork reserves.
According to the Guangxi Daily reported on September 6th, the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region recently issued the Notice on Accelerating the Restoration of the Market Supply of Pig Production, requiring all localities to strengthen the guidance on the restoration of pig production, do a good job in attracting investment, implement relevant support policies, ensure the normal circulation of breeding pigs and pig products, and stabilize the market supply of pig production. All localities are focusing on breeding pig farms and large-scale pig farms, taking stock, expanding quantity and tapping potential energy. Encourage and guide pig farmers, especially large-scale breeding enterprises, to actively increase the number of pigs, supplement high-quality sows, and steadily improve the existing pig production capacity.
Hunan: Parallel examination and approval of new, renovated and expanded pig farms.
Hunan province is a big province for pig breeding and transfer, and the large-scale pig farms in this province are the main source of pork market supply. In order to thoroughly implement the decision-making arrangements made by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the General Office of the Hunan Provincial Government issued the "Policies and Measures on Promoting the Supply of Live Pig Production in the Market" on September 11th, and issued 12 specific measures to further promote the high-quality development of the live pig industry and ensure that the market supply and prices are basically stable. The policy measures will be implemented from now until December 31, 2020.
Specific measures include strictly implementing the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system, and incorporating the minimum pig slaughter in each city and state into the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system assessment; Vigorously promote the transformation and upgrading of the pig industry, cultivate regional leading enterprises in the whole industry chain, and promote the construction of modern slaughtering and cold chain logistics system; Support the standardized construction of pig farms, implement parallel approval for new construction, renovation and expansion of pig farms, simplify the approval process, and reduce the time for land review and filing; Implement land security measures, allowing the pig breeding land to use general cultivated land, which does not need to be balanced for farming purposes, and should be reclaimed as cultivated land after production; Ensure the supply of meat market, establish a mechanism to ensure the supply and price stability of pork market, and resume the implementation of the "green channel" policy for the transportation of fresh agricultural products; Increase financial support and actively provide financing guarantee services for breeding pig farms and large-scale pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 pigs; Increase financial investment, purchase agricultural machinery within the scope of subsidies such as livestock and poultry breeding waste, harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry and resource utilization, and implement open subsidies.
Guangdong: The minimum pig slaughter amount will be included in the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system assessment.
On July 25th, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangdong Province issued the Notice on Ten Measures to Promote the Supply of Live Pig Production and Guarantee Market, demanding to strengthen the docking of production and marketing of live pigs and their products; Intensify the crackdown on illegal and criminal acts such as indiscriminate slaughter, "speculation in pigs" and obstruction of animal epidemic prevention and quarantine; Accelerate the formulation of frozen meat reserve control plan, timely start the pig price control plan, and expand the scale of frozen meat reserves at all levels.
A few days ago, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission and other 12 departments jointly issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing Ten Measures to Promote the Supply of Pig Production and Guarantee Market in our Province. The contents of the "Notice" include ten substantive policy measures to ensure the supply of pork market and stabilize the price of pork market.
Among them, the implementation of the "vegetable basket" mayor responsibility system assessment is the most concerned. This measure requires that the amount of live pigs to be released from the market at all levels should not be lower than the target and task stipulated in the Master Plan and Regional Layout of Pig Production and Development in Guangdong Province (2018-2020), and the minimum amount of live pigs should be included in the assessment of the mayor’s responsibility system of "vegetable basket". Specifically, the minimum target of pig slaughter planning in Guangdong Province this year and next will reach 34 million and 33 million.
In addition to setting tasks for cities in the province, the Notice also requires local governments, financial institutions and financial departments to give substantial policy support to pig enterprises in terms of land use, credit and financial subsidies, so as to help pig enterprises resume and expand production as soon as possible, thus ensuring the daily supply of pork.
Guizhou: increase the amount of slaughter in an orderly manner and put in reserves in time.
On August 26th, Guizhou Province held a conference on the production and supply of live pigs and the prevention and control of African swine fever. The governor of Guizhou, Chen Yiqin, instructed to stabilize pig production and increase the amount of slaughter in an orderly manner on the premise of ensuring safety. In circulation, it is necessary to strengthen market regulation, strengthen organization and scheduling, do a good job of production and marketing docking in advance, put in reserves in time and provide appropriate subsidies when necessary. Severely crack down on illegal acts of manipulating market prices, and conscientiously implement the linkage mechanism linking social assistance and security standards with price increases.
At the end of August, the Propaganda Department of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Provincial Department of Commerce and the Provincial Market Supervision Bureau jointly formulated and issued the Emergency Plan for Keeping Supply and Price Stable in the Pig Market in Guizhou Province, aiming at improving the regulation mechanism of the pig market, stabilizing pig production and market supply, alleviating the sharp fluctuation of market prices and promoting the stable and healthy development of pig production.
The plan makes it clear that when judging the production and market situation of live pigs, the price of pig food should be taken as the core index, and the change of the stock of fertile sows should be taken as the auxiliary index. At the same time, refer to other indicators such as the price of pig feed, the appearance price of fertile sows, and adjust the early warning indicators and specific standards according to factors such as pig production mode, cost and market demand changes.
Yunnan: transport pigs and pig products into Yunnan from designated crossings.
Previously, in order to prevent and control the African swine fever epidemic, Yunnan Province launched a major (level II) epidemic response to African swine fever, closed the province’s live pig trading market, stopped transporting live livestock and poultry vehicles such as pigs to enjoy the green channel policy, and completely banned the use of kitchen waste to feed pigs. Implement filing supervision on live livestock and poultry vehicles, strengthen the traceability and investigation of the epidemic, and strengthen the prevention and control of African swine fever in key areas such as borders and ports.
On July 20th, the Yunnan Provincial Government issued a notice to import live pigs and live pig products from designated crossings in the province, further standardizing the supervision of inter-provincial transportation of live pigs and live pig products, and effectively preventing the risk of major animal epidemics such as African swine fever. According to the regulations, if pigs and pig products are transported into Yunnan, they should carry quarantine certificates and other materials issued by the relevant departments of the place of origin with them from the designated crossing, and accept the epidemic prevention supervision and inspection at the designated crossing animal health supervision and inspection station, including verification, inspection, disinfection and information registration and traceability. Only after passing the inspection can they enter Yunnan.
Hainan: Reserve land space to provide land conditions for new large-scale pig farms.
On July 29th, Hainan Provincial Animal Husbandry Technology Extension Station held a symposium on promoting the resumption of production and supply of live pigs, and put forward "Eight Suggestions on the Work of Resuming Production and Supply of Live Pigs", pointing out that it is necessary to implement the funds for the resumption of production of live pigs and encourage the breeding subjects to resume production; Further promote pig insurance to solve the worries of aquaculture; Appropriately expand the scale of aquaculture in restricted areas and further increase production capacity.
According to Hainan Daily’s report on September 9, in order to ensure the supply and price stability during the Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day and other special periods, Hainan Province will ensure the stability of pork prices and vegetable prices in Hainan Province by establishing a mechanism for putting pig reserves on the market and accelerating the mechanism for replenishing pigs.
In order to ensure the supply of pork, Hainan Provincial Price Stabilization Office has formulated the Implementation Plan for Emergency Supply and Delivery of Provincial Frozen Pork Reserves in Hainan Province, and established a mechanism for putting live pig reserves on the market. From August 26, 2019 to February 29, 2020, Haikou City, Sanya City, Danzhou City and cities and counties with large fluctuations in pork market prices will be targeted for delivery to cities and counties and Yangpu Economic Development Zone in stages and batches to ensure the delivery of pork.
In addition, Hainan Province will also increase efforts to promote pig production by supporting the construction of large-scale pig farms and planning animal husbandry industry system projects, and strive to stabilize the supply price of pork. Since then, Hainan Province will further standardize the demarcation of livestock and poultry forbidden areas, scientifically demarcate forbidden areas according to law, carry out investigation on the demarcation of forbidden areas, rectify illegal and illegal over-designated forbidden areas, and immediately rectify the situation of restricting the development of pig industry and reducing pig production capacity in violation of laws and regulations; Implement farming land, support the construction of large-scale pig farms, fully consider the needs of large-scale livestock and poultry breeding, reserve land space, and provide land conditions for new large-scale pig farms.
Fujian: "Build first and then make up" the decontamination center for compliant pig transport vehicles.
On September 6th, the General Office of the People’s Government of Fujian Province issued the Notice on Ten Measures to Stabilize the Supply of Pig Production and Guarantee Market, and introduced a number of effective measures for all links in the industrial chain such as pig breeding, transportation and market supply.
In terms of stabilizing the scale of production, it is required to develop pig production in accordance with the principle of "total control and self-seeking balance". If there is insufficient breeding in counties and urban areas, it is necessary to immediately guide the increase of breeding and replenishment according to law when the environmental carrying capacity allows, and consolidate the basic production capacity of pigs; Encourage the main selling areas with shortage of pig production capacity to build pig production bases in different places in the main producing areas, build a slaughtering and processing logistics system on the spot, and explore the establishment of a profit compensation mechanism in the selling areas to ensure the long-term operation of the supply system.
In order to support the development of pig land, the notice allows the use of general cultivated land for pig breeding, and it does not need to be balanced as a breeding purpose; The scale of land for production facilities such as pig breeding pens, passages in the field and green isolation belts is determined according to the scale of breeding, and the existing upper limit of 15 mu for ancillary facilities is abolished, and the approval procedures for pig breeding land and forest are required to be simplified.
According to the notice, Fujian will give 2% discount support to the working capital loans of breeding pig farms and pig farms with an annual output of more than 2,000 heads; For the standardized construction of the pig transport vehicle decontamination center, the subsidy of 100,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan will be given by means of first building and then filling; Increase the insurance coverage of fertile sows to 1,500 yuan and fattening pigs to 800 yuan, and actively expand the insurance scale; At the same time, we will explore the inclusion of land management rights, breeding pens, large-scale breeding machinery and live pigs in the scope of collateral.
Zhejiang: Large-scale farms introduce breeding pigs, and each pig temporarily subsidizes 500 yuan.
On July 11th, the Zhejiang Provincial Government issued the Notice on Further Promoting the Supply of Pig Production Guarantee Market, which pointed out that Zhejiang businessmen should be supported to establish slaughter enterprises outside the province, and slaughter enterprises, meat circulation enterprises and farmers’ markets should be supported to jointly build a cold chain system, so as to accelerate the transformation from "adjusting pigs" to "adjusting meat". Finance at or above the provincial level gives discount subsidies to breeding pig farms and pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 heads, and requires local finance to give discount according to financial resources. Further improve the policy insurance for sows and fattening pigs, and appropriately increase the insurance coverage.
A few days ago, Zhejiang Province formulated the Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province on Further Promoting Pig Production to Ensure Market Supply. Eight measures were taken to stabilize pig production and ensure market supply, and many measures directly benefited farmers.
Among them, in the article "Actively develop green pig breeding", it is proposed that in order to solve the problem of not daring to raise or not wanting to raise pigs, large-scale pig farms and empty pens with good epidemic prevention conditions and surplus manure treatment capacity should be introduced from the breeding farms in this province, and Zhejiang provincial finance should give 500 yuan a temporary subsidy for each pig imported from the breeding farms in this province from July 1 to December 31, 2019 (this province cannot provide seeds at one time, but it needs to be introduced from outside the province after approval).
At the same time, the "Notice" proposes to make full use of local resource endowments, support areas with insufficient pig production capacity to establish pig "vegetable basket" bases in conditional areas, and enhance pork supply capacity. Support Zhejiang businessmen to establish slaughter enterprises outside the province, support slaughter enterprises, meat circulation enterprises and farmers’ markets to jointly build a cold chain system, and accelerate the transformation from "adjusting pigs" to "adjusting meat".
The rest of the provinces took active actions, and Henan arranged 300 million yuan to support the pig industry.
In addition to the pork consumption provinces, other provinces have also taken actions to actively protect the pork market supply in this province and other provinces.
In 2019, Jiangxi provincial finance arranged funds of about 4 million yuan for production assistance subsidies for breeding farms, effectively stabilizing the basic production capacity of pigs and increasing the protection of basic production capacity of breeding pigs. At the same time, Jiangxi province requires all localities to make good use of pigs to transfer funds and policies such as county awards, culling subsidies, harmless treatment subsidies, prevention and control subsidies, and insurance for breeding sows and fattening pigs to support pig production and restore breeding confidence.
The "Notice on Supporting Policies for Promoting the Recovery and Development of Pig Production" issued by Jiangsu Province clearly stipulates that short-term loan discount support will be given to breeding pig farms (including local pig breeding farms) and large-scale pig farms with an annual output of more than 5,000 pigs. The discount period will be from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019, and the guarantee fee will be reduced or exempted for a certain period of time.
Henan Province is a big province of pig production in China, and its pork production in 2017 was second only to Sichuan Province. It is understood that the relevant departments of Henan Province will co-ordinate the use of 300 million yuan of pigs to transfer the incentive funds from large counties, focusing on supporting the "two games" to improve infrastructure and epidemic prevention conditions; We will implement the "two-game" loan discount policy and give 110 million yuan of discount subsidies to 154 pig-raising enterprises. Henan provincial finance will also allocate 170 million yuan to support the standardization of live pigs in non-livestock counties. (The Paper reporter Xu Luyi Chen Lingyao Yuna Cheung)