Grain farmers do not cry: food production insurance work has reached a new level

Since the beginning of this year, for the impact of the El Niño phenomenon, China's wheat, especially the southern wheat, suffered excessive rainy weather during the growth and harvest period, resulting in an increase in imperfect grains and a low market price. Although the relevant state departments have started the implementation plan of the low wheat purchase price in a timely manner, the wheat imperfect grain produced by many local farmers is seriously exceeding the standard, and the low purchase price executive entity cannot purchase. Originally, the state stipulated that the medium wheat was 1.18 yuan per kilogram, which was higher than the market price, but the farmers could not enjoy it. In Anhui, in Jiangsu, in Hubei, and in southern Henan Province, imperfect grain-over-standard wheat can only be used as feed, which is sold at a price of 0.90 yuan or even 0.70 yuan per kilogram. Even so, the market is very deserted. Farmers in many places are not only unable to recover production costs, but also lose a lot of money.

Grain farmers do not cry: food production insurance work has reached a new level

In the face of food and agriculture who want to cry without tears, we cannot help but think about how to ensure the income of grain farmers. In addition to production support policies and price support policies, is the insurance policy further improved?

Recently, the media uploaded a good news: On June 3, Tongchuan City held a press conference to fully cover the city's policy wheat and corn insurance. Farmers do not need to pay a penny to enjoy wheat and corn insurance. The required premiums are fully subsidized by the central, provincial, municipal, and district (counties).

The guarantee for wheat and corn is 400 yuan per mu. The insurance premium rate for wheat is 3.75%, the premium is 15 yuan per mu, the insurance premium for corn is 4.45%, and the premium is 17.8 yuan per mu. The insurance premiums for wheat and corn are fully subsidized by the central, provincial, municipal, and district (counties). In the process of underwriting, the underwriting institution directly signed insurance contracts with the agricultural departments of the districts (counties) to optimize the supply of insurance services, reduce operating costs, improve work efficiency, and promote policy-oriented wheat and corn insurance work. Steps.

Tongchuan City's policy of ensuring insurance for policy wheat and corn production is worth learning from.

China is a country with a large population in the world. To protect people's lives, we must first solve the problem of eating. Although China has received a bumper harvest for 12 consecutive years since 2004, China's food production is still fragile.

The vast geographical conditions and natural resources vary widely across China, and vary widely. In recent years, frequent and frequent natural disasters have had little impact on food production. Taking wheat production as an example, most of China's main wheat producing areas were affected by rainy weather in 2009 and 2013 to 2016, respectively, and imperfect grain exceeded the standard. A considerable portion of the wheat sold by farmers does not meet national quality standards. The income has fallen sharply, and there is a lot of blood.

According to the statistics of the Disaster Reduction Office of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, in 2015, all kinds of natural disasters caused a total of 1,862.03 million people affected by the disaster, 819 people died, 148 people were missing, 6.444 million people were urgently transferred, and 1.17 million people needed emergency life assistance; 248,000 houses collapsed. 2,505,000 were damaged to varying degrees; the area affected by crops was 2,1769.8 thousand hectares, of which 2232.7 thousand hectares were lost; the direct economic loss was 270.41 billion yuan. Since the beginning of this year, China’s natural disasters have continued. In May, natural disasters in China were dominated by floods, geological and wind-stricken disasters. Disasters such as drought, earthquakes, low-temperature freezing, snow disasters and forest fires also occurred to varying degrees.

Over the years, governments at all levels have recognized the importance of food production insurance. However, in terms of specific implementation, it is short and short. Many local governments are always accustomed to the so-called "support". In the food production insurance, the central government, the province, the city, and the county take a little, and the farmers must also "support" a little. Seven matches with eight, the peasants' hearts are all cold, and often they are not. Therefore, the peasants can only rely on "receiving by the sky." After the disaster, many farmers reduced the area planted with food and even did not grow food. This phenomenon has continued in the past, and the sustained and steady development of China's food production is empty talk. Don't look at the fact that the world's food prices are lower than domestic food prices. China's grain harvest and stocks have increased. However, once China and the world's grain production are reduced, or the current situation is turbulent, natural disasters will intensify, and China's grain supply will be problematic.

Nowadays, the annual grain trade grain in the world is about 350 million tons, and it is mainly in the hands of several developed countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia. The increasingly strong financial and political attributes of food in recent years all indicate that we should be highly vigilant. Under the background of China's high grain output, high import volume and high stocks, the planting structure of grain can be adjusted, but the potential of grain production cannot be reduced, and the protection of the interests of grain farmers cannot be weakened.

Tongchuan City's practice of guaranteeing policy food production insurance reflects the overall concept of starting from the overall situation, the forward-looking concept of worrying about the country, and the pragmatic concept of doing things for the people. This concept is worthy of being carried forward.

(Original title: Food production insurance should be guaranteed)