China's pilot grain subsidies directly to farmers

Introduction: the reform of grain circulation system reform of grain circulation system has always been one of the most heated issues in China's economy, and also one of the major measures to improve farmers' income and make them the main market players Our reporter recently found in Tianchang City and Laian County of Anhui province that the reform of grain subsidy mode has been quietly launched W4q Zhang Guoshan is a farmer who comes to Zhangshan township of an County His family has more than 8 mu of land At the end of last year, he sold more than 4000 Jin of grain at the market price and got nearly 2000 yuan To his surprise, recently, the financial department sent him another 200 yuan Zhu Chengyong, the financial office of Chengnan sub district office of Tianchang City, told reporters that the extra money given to farmers is a reform in which the grain subsidies that Anhui has just started to pilot are directly given to farmers Zhu Chengyong told reporters: "every day, nearly one thousand farmers line up in the tax hall to receive money, and each farmer can get one or two hundred yuan of grain subsidy." According to w4q, a few months ago, the scene of farmers receiving food subsidies was very moving Many financial offices have long lines from 7 a.m to 7 p.m With the grain supplement notice issued by the government departments, farmers can directly receive subsidies here Zhang Guoshan and other local farmers may not know that the direct subsidies they receive have opened the prelude to a new round of reform of China's grain circulation system W4q the experimental mode of grain subsidy reform in Anhui Province, w4q the experimental mode of Anhui Province, is to take part of the money from the state subsidies to the grain sector, and directly subsidize farmers according to the land quantity and other indicators of farmers W4q is responsible for the implementation of the pilot work of Anhui Provincial Department of Finance said that the biggest change in the reform of secondary grain subsidy mode is to change the past practice of purchasing farmers' surplus grain at the protection price and indirectly subsidizing farmers into directly subsidizing farmers Anhui Department of Finance said that giving up indirect subsidies and adopting direct subsidies should be determined according to the actual situation of each region For the two pilot areas, the practice of Anhui Province is to subsidize the original protection price and market price to farmers on the basis of their farmland protection price and market price According to statistics, in 2002, the two pilot areas directly granted subsidies of nearly 40 million yuan, with an average subsidy of 25 yuan per mu and an average subsidy of 180 yuan per farmer W4q two systems: the gap between 4 billion and 4 billion w4q in the past, in order to protect the interests of farmers, the state opened up the purchase of surplus grain in the hands of farmers through food enterprises in the form of protection price, indirectly increasing farmers' income However, due to the circulation system, only one tenth of Anhui's subsidies go to farmers In recent days, Anhui Provincial Department of finance is summarizing the pilot work of the first year Dai Kezhu, deputy director of the Department, told reporters that according to the previous subsidy method, due to the large cost of circulation links and the loss of intermediate interests, the financial department of Anhui Province currently needs to pay nearly 4 billion yuan to the circulation links every year "But how many benefits do farmers get? Nearly 400 million benefits," he said At the cost of 4 billion yuan, the common people only get 400 million yuan of benefits This kind of system must be changed, and this kind of management method must be changed " W4q experts pointed out that the way that the state proposed grain subsidies directly to farmers can effectively prevent the loss of intermediate interests, and let farmers benefit 100% According to the relevant information, since the mid-1990s, China has begun to spend a huge amount of money on "subsidizing food" Because of the indirect subsidy, the government has carried a loss of 250 billion yuan in grain purchase, but the farmers have not received significant benefits from the huge subsidies Many experts pointed out that a large number of state subsidies precipitated in the circulation of monopoly Chen Xiwen, deputy director of the development research center of the State Council, w4q, said: "I think it has both micro significance and macro role It is to break the monopoly position of the government departments in the field of circulation After the direct subsidies to farmers, the whole circulation of agricultural products, which is not always important, can be marketized That is to say, if we do not supplement in the circulation link, we will not distort the price, which is very important for the rational use of agricultural resources " W4q grain sector: the cancellation of new grain subsidies is facing market pressure W4q reporter learned in an interview in Anhui province that with the cancellation of grain subsidies, the grain sector has begun to feel huge market pressure The Grain Bureau of Lai'an county, which accounts for more than half of the total rice purchase volume of the county, obtained loans of 230 million yuan in 2001 with the rice purchase volume of 450 million jin In addition, the financial department has to pay more than 30 million yuan to other risk fund subsidies W4q relies on the policy to come to an County Grain Bureau, after canceling the subsidy of new grain, what feels is worry and pressure Gu Chunlin, director of the Grain Bureau of Lai'an county, Anhui Province, told reporters: "the change in the way of subsidies has the greatest impact on our grain sector and the biggest impact Because the elimination of the subsidy of the new grain risk fund means that the policy of the grain sector's full access to the grain purchase and sale market has come " Gu Chunlin said that in the past, due to the open purchase of farmers' surplus grain at the protection price, many grain enterprises were dependent on the policy They received more grain, could borrow more, could not sell grain, and had subsidies after overstocking However, since 2002, the financial department will no longer use risk funds to subsidize the newly purchased grain For the difficulties encountered by the grain department, experts say that the state is working hard to study them W4q financial department: facing the dual pressure of grain depot and farmers w4q because the reform is carried out in a pilot way, Anhui provincial finance not only subsidizes the stock of grain depot, but also increases the subsidies to farmers The two ends of financial expenditure face double pressure Dai Kezhu, deputy director of the Department of finance of Anhui Province, said: "the biggest difficulty we are facing now is the" three old problems "(in the food sector) The old, the old and the old are in debt We have no money to solve the old and the old are unable to solve it We have 13 billion old accounts, several billion new ones, and billions of stored grains to be disposed of That adds up to more than 20 billion." Daikezhu said that Tianchang City and Lai'an county, the pilot areas of grain subsidy reform, have stockpiled 1.4 billion jin of grain At present, the price of grain storage cost in the two regions is 20 yuan higher than the market price, reaching about 70 yuan per Jin Therefore, the financial department has to pay high storage, interest and other expenses Dai Kezhu also told reporters: "I want to issue this to the farmers, and I want to attach fees here I don't have money for the people, and I don't have direct subsidies for the people." /If this problem of old grain is not solved, I will not be able to carry out the next step of the whole pilot project " According to w4q, if the old grain in stock is not disposed of, the financial department still has to pay nearly 80 million yuan of interest subsidy to the old grain in two pilot areas every year, while the pilot also pays nearly 40 million yuan to the farmers, which creates double pressure for the financial department Duan Yingbi, director of the office of the leading group of the central rural work, said: "the state can't take another dollar to do this, so there is still such an obstacle in large-scale development This can only be a pilot project, a research project, and the overall plan is not yet true, but the direction is right, and we must go in this direction." W4q in 2002, in Anhui Province and Jilin Province to carry out the reform of food subsidies, in Henan, Hunan, Hubei and other parts of the province, also began the reform of food subsidies w4q   w4q