Yihai Kerry (Harbin) Grain, Oil and Food Industry Co., Ltd. Summary of typical experiences and practices in deep processing of agricultural products

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Company profile

Yihai Kerry Arowana Grain, Oil & Food Co.
, Ltd.
is an important agricultural and food processing enterprise in China, mainly involved in oilseed crushing, edible oil refining, special oils, oil technology, rice circular economy, corn deep processing, wheat deep processing, soybean deep processing, food raw materials, grain and oil technology research and development and other industries
.

Yihai Kerry owns well-known brands such as "Arowana", "Olivilan", "Orchid Flower", "Xiangmanyuan", "Sea Emperor", "Golden Flavor", "Fengyuan", "Ryzen", "Jiejin 100" and other well-known brands, and its products cover small packages of edible oil, rice, flour, noodles, condiments, food and beverages, catering products, food raw materials, feed raw materials, oil technology and many other fields
.

Yihai Kerry (Harbin) Grain, Oil and Food Industry Co.
, Ltd.
is a subsidiary of Yihai Kerry Group, the company was established on November 28, 2007, the address is located at No.
10 Haping East Road, Harbin Development Zone, covering a total area of 400,000 square meters
.
The company is a grain, oil and food processing enterprise integrating grain purchase and processing, warehousing and logistics, and trade operations, and is also the first comprehensive factory
of Yihai Kerry Group with rice, noodles and oil production lines.
Relying on the Group's R&D advantages and advanced production technology, the company provides consumers with high-quality, reassuring, nutritious and safe food, and these high-quality Longjiang agricultural product resources are sold to the whole country through the
perfect sales system of Yihai Kerry Group.

Yihai Kerry (Harbin) Grain, Oil and Food Industry Co.
, Ltd

With the steady development of the company's various business operations, the scale of agricultural product deep processing industry in the region has become increasingly obvious
.
In recent years, the company has won the honors of "National Key Leading Enterprise in Agricultural Industrialization", "National Assured Grain and Oil Demonstration Project Demonstration Processing Enterprise", "National Green Factory", "The Most Driving Agricultural Product Processing Enterprise of China Farmers' Harvest Festival", "Top 500 Agricultural Enterprises in China", "Top 100 Enterprises in Heilongjiang Province", "Top 100 Manufacturing in Heilongjiang Province", etc.
, and passed the digital (intelligent) workshop assessment and AIB food safety audit and halal certification in
Heilongjiang Province.

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Yihai Kerry "Rice Circular Economy"

China, the origin of rice, is the world's largest rice producer
.

However, China's rice industry has long been in an inefficient state
of decentralized planting, extensive processing, short industrial chain and low added value.
The "small, scattered and low" industry pattern seriously restricts the pace of industrial development and market competitiveness
.

Yihai Kerry has spent more than a decade exploring a path
of transformation and upgrading for China's rice industry in line with its national conditions.
It pioneered the "rice circular economy", a new industrial model representing the leading technical level of rice processing in the world, and built a green and low-carbon industrial chain
of "intensive processing and turning waste into treasure".
In 2010, Yihai Kerry Rice Circular Economy won the first prize of Science and Technology Award of the National Cereals and Oils Society
.
In April 2021, Yihai (Jiamusi) Grain and Oil Industry Co.
, Ltd.
, a subsidiary of Yihai Kerry, as the only pilot enterprise in the rice processing industry in China, successfully passed the assessment and evaluation of the "Rice Processing Circular Economy Standardization Pilot" by the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Standards Commission, becoming a pioneer in the green and low-carbon development of
China's rice processing industry.

Yihai Kerry rice circular economy model

First, the rice is processed into branded high-quality rice to increase the premium price
.
The by-product rice husk is used as a biomass fuel to generate electricity, which can replace fossil fuel, save energy, and reduce the emission
of polluting gases such as sulfur dioxide.
In addition, rice husk ash is used to extract high value-added products such as silica, activated carbon, and polysilicon, and there is no residue waste discharge
.
Another by-product, rice bran, is used to extract rice oil with high nutritional value, and the by-products of rice oil processing can be further further processed into a variety of food and health product raw materials
.

Yihai Kerry's circular economy model is based on the sustainable development of the industry, focusing on building a resource-saving and environment-friendly society, which is operable and replicable, and plays a leading and exemplary role in the transformation and upgrading of
China's and even the world's grain and oil industry.

Third, the mode of deep processing and utilization of agricultural products

Relying on the advanced development concept of the group, the company vigorously develops the rice circular economy model, and digs deep and explores
in the direction of rice bran extraction of rice oil.
Rice bran is one of the by-products in the rice processing process, and in the traditional rice processing mode, rice bran is usually used as feed as a by-product, and its nutritional value and food value cannot be fully utilized
.
The company uses order agriculture to ensure the quality of raw grain, and uses advanced technology and equipment in the rice production process to extract the oil and fat from the by-product rice bran to produce healthy rice oil
.
While extending the industrial chain, the added value
of products is improved.

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Basic situation of agricultural product processing

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1 Use of raw materials for agricultural products

Heilongjiang is rich in products and blessed with unique agricultural resources, and is an important agricultural production area in China, rich in green and high-quality agricultural products
.
The raw material of rice oil produced by the company is rice bran, and the company purchases high-quality rice from Longjiang for processing
.
The output of rice oil produced by rice bran processing is in a leading position
among similar enterprises in China.

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2 Processing method

In the production process of rice oil, our company has created a new rice oil production mode of decentralized preservation, centralized production and centralized refining, using a series of production technology such as 6-hour puffing preservation, low-temperature extraction, and advanced green enzymatic degumming, so that natural oryzanol, vitamins and sterols and other grain active nutrients can be retained
to the greatest extent.

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Processing mode highlights

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1 Order-based agriculture Front-end benefiting farmers

In major rice-growing provinces, high-quality rice varieties are carefully selected and an ecological planting base
for Arowana rice is established.
Through the four excellent order agriculture of "high-quality varieties, excellent production areas, high-price acquisition, and optimization technology", large-scale planting and standardized management have greatly improved agricultural production efficiency
.
At the same time, with order agriculture as the link, starting from market demand, let enterprises and farmers become a community of interests, realize the optimization of planting structure, fully guarantee farmers' income, so that farmers not only have the motivation to grow grain, sell grain without worry, but also increase production and income
.

Relying on the advanced concept of the group, our company is committed to constantly exploring new models from the forefront of agricultural orders, and gradually leading growers to become a community of interests with enterprises through cooperative ties, forming a stable supply chain, the company has obtained high-quality grain sources, and farmers have also benefited
.
The agricultural order model is divided into three major links, the first link is the optimization of planting structure (guiding the adjustment of planting varieties); The second link is to provide quality agricultural production materials; The third link is the back-end service
.
Cooperatives assist growers in selling directly to enterprises, provide a series of services, guide rice unloading, and return the money to the growers in a timely manner
.

Through the development of order agriculture, we have played a leading role in the local area, driven the optimization of the planting structure of high-quality varieties, and guided the transformation
from output to quality.
By planting high-quality grain, optimizing the agricultural industrial structure, and improving farmers' income, our company has realized the integration of farmers' interests and the company's interests in the form of order contracts, and realized "front-end benefiting farmers"
.

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2 Ecological good rice Benefit the people at the backend

A good base can produce good rice, and green and high-quality brand rice is inseparable from good ecology and scientific management
.
Our company is specially equipped with quality management agronomists, mainly to provide the following planting supporting services for rice planting in the order base:

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Soil testing
.
Before the start of the planting season, soil testing is carried out on the planting base, and soil samples are taken to irradiate all bases
.
According to the test data, the amount of
fertilizer applied is guided in the process of fertilizer application by growers.

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Regularly provide technical guidance and training
to farmers in seedbed management and Honda management.
Farmers are trained four times a year, covering all order-based agricultural bases
.
Through the professional training of personnel, leading farmers to plant scientifically, so that their technology has been improved, mechanical operation, repair and maintenance, field management, planting technology, etc.
, so that farmers from simple and extensive planting to scientific and professional team production, effectively realized the combination of large mechanical equipment and technical personnel, reducing the dependence
on manpower.

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3 Leading the demonstration

In order to continuously improve the high-value and intensive utilization level of high-quality rice resources in Northeast China, our company has taken the lead in exploring and forming a deep processing mode
of "rice circular economy" in the domestic industry by continuously extending the rice processing industry chain.
Among them, the full use of rice bran resources is an important part
.

For many years, one of the reasons restricting the development of rice oil in China is that rice bran is easy to rancid and difficult to preserve
.
With more than ten years of unremitting efforts, our company has created a new rice oil production mode of fresh processing, centralized production and centralized refining, which ensures the good quality of rice oil and lower processing costs
.
Through continuous innovation, our company stabilizes the quality of puffed rice bran, so that rice bran can meet the conditions of large-scale storage and processing, and makes full use of the rice bran that was originally mainly used as feed to food grade, extracts rice oil with high nutritional value, and realizes the value appreciation of rice bran resources and the grain saving and loss
of rice deep processing.
With its balanced nutritional ratio, rice oil has the reputation of "rice gold" and is a healthy edible oil
recommended by the World Health Organization.
In the traditional rice processing mode, rice bran is usually used as a by-product as feed, and its nutritional value and food value cannot be fully utilized
.
Through scientific and technological research and technological innovation, our company uses rice bran to extract rice oil
with high nutritional value.

The extraction of rice oil from rice bran not only realizes the intensive and efficient use of food resources, but also realizes the value added of the industry, and can also provide consumers with new healthy oil consumption choices and open up a new way to
ensure national food security.
Some institutions estimate that the annual output of 200 million tons of rice in the country can produce 16 million tons of rice bran, and its oil content is equivalent to 13 million tons of soybeans
.
If all of them are utilized, this is equivalent to adding 110 million mu of soybeans to the country, which will not compete with the staple grain for good land and can improve China's self-sufficiency in
edible oil.

Our rice circular economy model and rice oil extraction technology can be replicated and promoted throughout the country and form a large industry, and rice oil products have been promoted in the downstream food industry and civil consumption, the acceptance of consumer entities is gradually improving, and the market capacity prospects are better
.

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Epilogue

Relying on the group's advanced rice circular economy model, the company comprehensively utilizes and processes the value-added valuable food resources, drives the transformation of traditional agriculture and agricultural products from extensive planting to precise production, from primary processing to intensive processing, and from resource consumption to efficient utilization, so that the agricultural industry is more accurate, the added value is higher, and the industrial chain is longer, so as to make China effectively change from a big agricultural country to an agricultural power, effectively solve the "three rural areas" problem and the construction of new rural areas
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Responsible Editor: Xiao Zhihan Review: Wang Jinchen