Gap discomfort: high cost is too heavy for the drug planting Enterprises

The gap (good agricultural practices) pushed by the competent department made an early start and a late start In order to standardize the production of traditional Chinese medicine, in 2002, the former State Food and Drug Administration issued the quality management standard for the production of traditional Chinese medicine (for Trial Implementation), and the next year, the administrative measures for the certification of the quality management standard for the production of traditional Chinese medicine (for Trial Implementation) was pushed People in the industry generally believe that strictly following the gap production can block or prevent the pollution of toxic and harmful substances at the source, which is the key to improve the quality of traditional Chinese medicine products, and also the early guarantee for the production of follow-up industry, Zhongcheng pharmaceutical However, according to statistics agency data, less than 30 of the 114 bases have passed GAP certification so far As an international standard of Chinese herbal medicine cultivation, gap has encountered embarrassment in China After gap entered the village, Liuquan Township, Lingchuan County, Jincheng, Shanxi Province, stood in huangsongbei village, 1520 meters above sea level, and saw the price of green Dangshen and purple Scutellaria everywhere Beijing Tongrentang's gap planting base for the price of Party ginseng is located here, and one side of the black stone tablet is particularly eye-catching among the verdant This is the first gap base in Shanxi Province In 2001, Tian Dafang, the former Secretary of Tongrentang Party committee, took six colleagues to investigate and stood on the hillside and said, "this is the most suitable place for the price of Party members." A year later, Tongrentang and local enterprise Taihang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd jointly established Lingchuan dangshen price Co., Ltd., the former accounting for 51% of the shares In 2004, driven by Tongrentang and Lingchuan County Government, the base passed GAP certification GAP certification is usually valid for five years However, Tongrentang did not apply for certification of the 700 Mu GAP base after the certification expired in 2009 Wang Xinwen, director of Lingchuan County Agriculture Bureau, said: "certified products can't be sold on the market The enterprise has no power " Relevant departments of Lingchuan County once went to Bozhou, Anhui, Shangluo, Shaanxi and other places to inspect gap bases "As we know, those who have engaged in gap bases are all at a loss." Gap brings high cost burden to enterprises, almost throughout the whole process of traditional Chinese medicine planting The base needs to do an environmental assessment every two years, which costs tens of thousands of dollars The base chooses to leave the main road to avoid automobile exhaust and other pollution, but increases the logistics cost The base also needs to build toilets, so it is not allowed to defecate at will In terms of personnel, workers in the base shall have a comprehensive physical examination without infectious diseases, and then carry out professional training on planting density, harvesting time, etc "It is stipulated that farmers should have a physical examination every year, a toilet in the field and wash their hands at any time They've brought in some outside things We don't adapt to the countryside " Wang Xinwen said In the planting process, seed inspection and seedling quarantine are required, and there should be no disease; in the fertilizer selection, high toxic and high residual pesticides, such as phosphorus nitrate, should not be used, and low residual green pesticides and organic pesticides should be used "If encounter disease and insect pests, others use highly toxic pesticide, may spend 5 yuan to kill the disease and insect, but use low residue pesticide may cost 200 yuan." Lingchuan County Bureau of Agriculture said The requirements for transportation and processing are more detailed For example, it is necessary to purchase woven bags and means of transport that meet the sanitary conditions; to remove corruption and impurities, to wash and process safe drinking water, to dry it, to test and quarantine, to pack it in a special closed environment; to store it, it is necessary to strictly control the temperature and humidity "Its entire design process is too heavy for the enterprise." Zhao Guofeng, chief agronomist of Lingchuan County Agriculture Bureau, said that even old brands like Tongrentang can't bear the high cost pressure brought by gap Tongrentang's drug price is on the high side in the industry For example, the price pill of Liuwei Dihuang is 5 yuan a box, but Tongrentang's is 15 yuan Zhao Guofeng believes that in the past, Tongrentang medicine cost is high, but it can be digested with high profits With the policy of limiting the price of traditional Chinese medicine, "Tongrentang in some fields is not easy to mix up." "High quality but not good price, gap products are not recognized by the market, which is the root of its failure to promote at the grassroots level." Wang Xinwen said According to reports, the main standard of the purchasers who often come to Lingchuan to purchase the price of Dangshen is the low price, "the state has no restrictions on saying good materials." In the current generic drug bidding, it is often obtained by the lower price As a well-known brand, Tongrentang still needs to make a hard choice between gap and production cost, while some small enterprises and small pharmaceutical factories regard gap as nothing "We have our own herbs, but they account for less than 10% Most of them are purchased from the market." "If the state wants to grasp the quality from the root, it should give some concrete policies to encourage enterprises to cultivate," said the head of a medium-sized decoction piece enterprise in Bozhou, Anhui Province After Tongrentang took the first gap for Shanxi in 2004, it did not have a second gap base until 2009 At this time, Tongrentang did not continue to apply Five years of hesitation is just an embarrassing epitome of gap in the domestic traditional Chinese medicine industry According to a report from Wenzhou Medical College, as of the middle of March 2013, 114 enterprises in China had passed the gap certification of traditional Chinese medicine Jiang Chengxi, the author of the report, made a follow-up call to 112 of the enterprises, among which 81 were vacant, unanswered and shut down, and only 29 operated well Wang Xinwen said that after 2009, the gap base of Tongrentang changed in the planting process, and some processes were simplified without affecting the quality of medicinal materials In his opinion, gap production specifications should be selected, just pay attention to several aspects: what is suitable for this place; prohibit the use of high residual pesticides and heavy metal fertilizers; timely harvest; and do a good job in storage and processing "Most of the gap takes form, not just here." Some interviewees believe that gap needs national policy support, otherwise there is no development prospect However, gap's international market prospects are generally optimistic in the industry According to data from China Chamber of Commerce for the import and export of health care products, the export volume of Chinese traditional medicine will reach 3 billion US dollars in 2013 But it is still playing the role of "selling raw materials", and the export share of high value-added Chinese patent medicines is very small "Without a good solution to gap, traditional Chinese medicine will not be able to compete in the international market." Industry insiders said On September 4, a Chinese medicine enterprise in Shanghai visited Lingchuan, and is also preparing to establish a gap base here The person in charge told Caijing national weekly that it is reasonable to require traditional Chinese medicine according to international standards "The key is that we need good quality herbal medicine, which is free of agricultural residues and pollution Because many of our end products are to be sold to foreign enterprises, which are very strict " Wang Zhiming, director of Jincheng Agricultural Development Bureau, said to the enterprise that it could arrange the docking between the enterprise and the local cooperative The largest local cooperative association has more than 10000 mu of land Guo Shuqi, a retired expert from Jincheng Agricultural Bureau, said that gap base is the most suitable between 700 Mu and 1000 mu, which is too big to manage, but it should not be too small, and there should be rotation space "The price of our products in the international market is certainly higher than that in the domestic market." According to the estimation of the head of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Company, the costs are mainly as follows: labor cost, land transfer cost, seedling fertilizer and capital cost In Shanxi, the cost of a season (two to two and a half years) is about yuan Take the price of Dangshen as an example, the yield per mu is about 130 Jin According to the current price, the income per mu is more than 13000 yuan "If we organize farmers to grow pollution-free medicinal materials on wasteland where there is no income, why not increase their income?" "Only those enterprises that have entered the international market with high profits have the energy to take these into account But most of Chinese medicine is still in the domestic market " Zhao Guofeng said that if domestic enterprises follow the gap, it will mean higher costs for domestic consumers He believes that the way out of financial subsidies is essential.