日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Business
Home / Business / Industries

Chinese farmers upset by rising rice imports

Xinhua | Updated: 2013-06-05 09:36
WUHAN -- Veteran farmer Fu Huoshan is expecting another bumper rice harvest this year, which is adding to the 70-year-old's anxieties amid sluggish rice sales.

"The harvest will come soon, but the stock from last year's harvest has barely been sold and the price of rice has continued to fall," said Fu, a farmer in Huangmei county, Central China's Hubei province.

Jiang Xin, general manager of Hubei Jiangshan Grain and Oil Co Ltd, said sales of local rice have fallen as a result of last year's surging rice imports.

Due to price advantages for rice imported from Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam, rice from these countries currently holds a 40-percent share in Hubei's rice market, said Jiang.

His company was forced to halt half of the machines in its grain mill amid weak demand.

On Hubei's grain market, the price of Vietnamese rice averages 3.14 yuan ($0.5) per kilogram, and rice from Pakistan sells for 3.4 yuan per kg on average. In comparison, local rice products are priced between 3.8 yuan and 4 yuan per kg on average.

Aside from his concerns about sales, Fu has no place to store whatever he reaps in his bumper harvest, as roughly 5,000 kg of rice harvested last year is still in one of his rooms.

Statistics from the China National Grain and Oil Information Center show that the country's rice imports soared 190 percent year-on-year in the first quarter to hit 692,000 tonnes.

Last year, China, the world's largest grain consumer, imported 2.3 million tons of grain, marking the greatest import volume since 2000.

In addition to price concerns, recent reports of a scandal involving tainted rice in Central China's Hunan province have turned many domestic consumers off of Chinese rice.

Deng Gansheng, chief agronomist with the Hubei Provincial Agricultural Department, said the rising rice imports will force many small and uncompetitive grain producers out of the market. However, China's big and medium-sized grain firms will be able to meet the challenges.

He also pointed out that most farm work in the countryside is currently carried out by people over the age of 50, as people in the younger generations have moved to cities to find better paying jobs. Sluggish rice sales could result in many farmers, especially the older ones, giving up farming for good.

"I will sell the field to others if the grain price remains sluggish," said Fu's neighbor Gui Haisi, 66.

China has set its rice import quota at 5.32 million tons. Compared with last year's import volume, there is still a lot of room for more growth in imports.

The country is likely to mark its tenth consecutive year of reaping a bumper harvest of summer grain crops in 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture forecast Monday.

The ample market supply will continue to keep rice prices down, further squeezing farmers' profits.

Most Viewed in 24 Hours
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产精品久久91 | 欧美日韩在线观看一区二区 | 国产剧情在线 | 网站黄在线观看 | 91精品婷婷国产综合久久蝌蚪 | 国产一二三区在线 | 黄色小说污| 日韩在线视频观看免费 | 日本道不卡 | 超碰97在线播放 | 伊人影院久久 | 就要操就要射 | 欧美五十路 | 国产精品久久久久久99 | 特级淫片裸体免费看 | 一区二区三区视频在线 | 99视频一区 | 波多野结衣一本 | 老司机午夜精品视频 | 五月婷影院 | 成人免费黄色大片v266 | 久久精品国产77777蜜臀 | 欧美又粗又深又猛又爽啪啪九色 | 91日本| 久久婷婷国产麻豆91天堂 | 久久免费播放视频 | 国产精品97| 四虎亚洲精品 | 大香焦久久| 日韩在线影视 | av网站大全在线 | 不卡av在线免费观看 | 成年人在线免费观看视频网站 | 成人小视频在线播放 | 国产综合精品 | 天堂精品视频 | 国产成人精品一区二区三区四区 | 久久影视中文字幕 | 欧美一区二区在线看 | 欧美成人一区二区三区片免费 | sihu在线|