China to largely support 2013 spring production

According to the news from the Ministry of Finance of China (MFC) on 21 Jan., 2013, it has allocated USD19.46 billion of subsidy to provincial governments (including local governments in autonomous regions and municipalities) for the support of spring production in 2013, including USD2.4 billion of direct grain purchase subsidy and USD17.06 billion of comprehensive subsidy of agricultural means of production.

Additionally, aiming to support local governments to better complete the payment of direct grain purchase subsidy, the MFC allocated USD5.02 billion of grain risk fund (a special fund used to ensure the stabilization of grain price and the normal flow order of grain in domestic market) to local governments. Adding up the grain risk fund raised by local governments, the total fund reached USD6.08 billion.

Aiming to ensure grain safety, China has increased the investment in agricultural production year by year. Total investment in agriculture in 2012 reached USD195.65 billion, up 18.04% over that in 2011.

Such a large investment had finally gained a good return in 2012. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, China's total grain output in 2012 enjoyed a ninth growth in the past nine years, reaching 589.57 million tonnes and up 3.2% over that in 2011.

Moreover, the annual average income of farmers in this period also witnessed great growth, reaching USD1,260.67, up 10.7% over that in 2011.

Eyeing the growing population and the gradually shrinking of arable land, China has done a lot of work in improving grain output and stimulated the planting enthusiasm of farmers in recent years. However, as the fast development of urbanization in China in recent years, lots of farmers started to flow into cities for works and abandoned lots of farmland. The great gap between the incomes of working in city and farming has also alerted Chinese government. It is really hard for it to fill or narrow the gap in the near future even though China continued to increase the investment in agricultural production subsidies year by year.

The contradiction in the wills of raising farmers' income and encouraging them to stick to agricultural production for the growth of grain output has bothered Chinese government in the past few years.

The policy carried out in 2005, namely the Management Approach of Rural Land Contracting Right of Management Circulation, has largely balanced the problems. It encourages those farmers who are not willing to continue planting but to rent their farmlands to those large plantations. So that farmers can work in other fields and the farmlands are still not abandoned.

In the No. 1 central document of 2013, Chinese government is predicted to mainly focus on the reformation and innovation of agricultural management system which will encourage more professional plantations and develop more professional collective organizations.

Even so, Chinese government won't let the number of large plantations to increase as large as it can, because too many farmers abandon farmland and choose to work in cities which will cause lots of urban management issues.

The report above was derived from Crop Protection China News issued by CCM in February.

Table Contents of Crop Protection China News 1302:

China to largely support 2013 spring production

China: cotton reserve measure facing with dilemma

Main pesticides' price trend in China in 2012

China: grain import volume up 156.5% YoY in Jan.–Nov. 2012

China: fertilizer industry needs transformation

Anhui Huaxing: pesticide business to be expanded after reorganization

Hebei Veyong reveals 2012 financial report

Pest and disease occurrence forecast in 2013

Crop Protection China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM on 31^st, offers timely update and close follow-up of China’s crop protection industry dynamics. It also provides you with professional features articles, keeping you aware of the latest industrial development, import and export analysis, and market data. 

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Find Hot News in Dairy Products China News 1211

Published on the 31^th every month, Dairy Products China News is a monthly publication released by CCM. It offers timely update and close follow up of China’s various kind of Dairy market dynamics, analyze the market data and trends. Major columns include the latest information on new market dynamics, company dynamics, new dairy products and consumption trend, new legislations and policies and raw milk supply dynamics that are shaping the market.

Following are headline news of the latest issue of Dairy Products China News:

Xinghe Paints a Mixed Picture for Whey Products

Distributor Xinghe contrasts strong current demand for edible grade whey products with a downturn in feed sector whey demand

Casein Sector Prospects

Hualing sees casein prices set to rise slightly in the near future due to strong demand.

Parental Purchase Criteria for Infant Formula

A November survey from www.huihui.cn reiterates that product safety is a key concern for Chinese parents when they purchase infant formula

Key Data Shows Dairy Industry Challenges in Q3

A recent report jointly issued by the China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Centre (CEMAC, a subsidiary of the National Bureau of Statistics of China) and the Economic Daily (a leading local newspaper) shows the ongoing difficulties of China's dairy industry in Q3

Key Dairy Processors’ Performance in Q3

Several Chinese dairy processors release their financial reports for Q3, showing mixed performances in the period

Anhui Government Further Strengthens Food Safety

On 31 October, Anhui launches a plan for a tighter food safety supervision system locally.

Beingmate Plans to Sell Infant Supplies Business

On 12 November, Beingmate reveals its plan to divest its infant supplies business to allow it to focus on its core infant nutrition activities.

Bright Dairy Raises Prices

In mid-November, Bright Dairy raises the prices of some products in certain regions, suggestive of expected trends in the wider market.

Nouriz Reignites Milk Powder Controversy

Nouriz is hit by a scandal over claims that it has misrepresented its status by portraying itself as a foreign business

Milk Price Rises

After being stable for several months, the milk price rises again in November

Neptunus Group Extends Infant Formula Range

On November 7, Neptunus Group extends its imported range of Pasteur infant formula which it targets at the premium market segment

Ansy Dairy Launches GUMPs

On October 31, Ansy Dairy introduces AuMina growing up milk powders at a new product conference held in Guangzhou 

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Find Hot News in Dairy Products China News 1207

Published on the 5^th every month, Dairy Products China News is a monthly publication released by CCM International. It offers timely update and close follow up of China’s various kind of Dairy market dynamics, analyze the market data and trends. Major columns include the latest information on new market dynamics, company dynamics, new dairy products and consumption trend, new legislations and policies and raw milk supply dynamics that are shaping the market.

Following are headline news of the latest issue of Dairy Products China News:

Dairy Industry Growth in H1

In H1, the Chinese dairy industry has achieved increasing output, and is predicted to grow at a good pace in H2

Signs of the Growing Cheese Market

In late June, French industry body CNIEL holds a cheese marketing event in Beijing, aiming to publicise French cheese to domestic consumers as the cheese market continues to grow in China

Strengthened Supervision + Increasing Concern = More Food Incidents

A corollary of the strengthened governmental supervision and the increasing public concern is that more and more food scare incidents are exposed, a trend which processors will have to learn to live with

Government Plan for Build Food Safety Supervision System

The government launches the 12th Five-Year Plan of Food Safety Supervision System, revealing its intention to establish such a system covering all foods

New Website for Quality Management of Food Enterprises

As part of its food safety drive the government launches a new website for quality management of food enterprises

Arla Foods + Mengniu + Biostime: Cooperation Arrangements

In June Arla Foods agrees cooperation deals with Mengniu and Biostime – more and more such arrangements in the industry can be expected

Junlebao Dairy Cooperation with BOC

On 5 July, Junlebao Dairy signs a funding agreement with the Bank of China as it seeks to build its raw milk supply

Pengxin Targets Domestic Raw Milk

In late June, Pengxin signs contracts with 8 county governments for investment in dairy farms in Anhui, showing a focus on domestic raw milk production

New Hope Dairy Signs A New Farm

On 25 June New Hope Dairy starts to build a new dairy farm in Yunnan Province, aiming to consolidate the market in Southwest China

Dairy Industry Benefits from the Development of Grassland

On 7 July, the 2nd China Grassland Agriculture Conference takes place in Beijing, highlighting the importance of increasing supplies of local grassland and alfalfa for the growing dairy industry

Tianyou Dairy Launches New Yoghurt

On 6 July, Tianyou Dairy launches a new premium yogurt named Santis in Chongqing

Dumex Launches New Formula

In July Dumex launches its Precigro formula range in China as an update to the Nutrilon products

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China to Build up Large Areas of High Standard Farmland in 2011-2015

Aiming to decrease the grain security risk brought up by the declining area of arable land and reinforce national grain security guarantee ability, China plans to increase the area of arable land by 1.6 million ha. during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

On 24 April, 2012, Ministry of Land and Resources of China (MLR) held a news briefing interpreting the policy released on 26 March, 2012, namely National Land Consolidation Planning (2011-2015). According to Dong Zuoji, an official from MLR, China will make great effort to the consolidation of land in the rural and city areas, especially those rural construction lands that are now abandoned, idle and inefficiently used. He said that within four years time from now on, China will increase effective area of arable land by 1.6 million ha. before 2015.

Moreover, despite the plan above, China also plans to build up high standard farmland of 26.67 million ha. during this period. This kind of farmland is with many advantages compared with normal farmland in China, such as well-equipped facilities, high and stable yield, good ecological environment, strong anti-disaster capacity. The total investment of the plan is predicted to reach USD95.24 million. After the construction of the high standard farmland project, China's grain production capacity is predicted to increase by 25,000,000t/a.

The plan will be executed in several stages in four years time. So far, the first stage of the plan has been issued to 31 provincial governments and municipal governments in China. The goal of the plan in first stage is to finish the construction of the high standard farmland with an area of 6.67 million ha. in 2012. The remaining 20 million ha. of the construction area is regulated to be finished in the coming three years. Actually, the construction of high standard farmland is also considered to be a different way for Chinese government to encourage large-scale plantations in China.

As the urbanization in China is speeding up, the arable land in China has been shrinking quickly in the past few years. Stopping the arable land shrinking and defending the red line of 120 million ha. of arable land have became urgent tasks for the Chinese government. Even though it has carried out policies to stimulate peasants' planting enthusiasm, the prices of main grains have been restrained by the Chinese government at a certain level to maintain the stablization of prices. Thus the peasants' income still remains at a relatively low level which leads to the continuous shrinking of arable land area.

Eyeing the area of arable land can't be efficiently increased, the quality of the arable land is considered to be a very important factor for improving grain capacity. It has been calculated by an agricultural department in Shandong Province that grain output will increase by about 2.25 tonnes while the area of high standard of basic farmland increases for one ha. With the prediction that Chinese population will reach the peak in 2030, China has to build up at least 66.67 million ha. of high standard farmland to meet the grain demand.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1208

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Content of Crop Protection China News 1208:

China to build up large areas of high standard farmland in 2011-2015

Jiangsu Yangnong: net profit surges by 40.73% in Q1 2012

Jiangsu Changqing to rebuild imidacloprid production line

Thaihot Group to accelerate expansion in organic fluorine industry

Nanjing Redsun to found a pesticide subsidiary

China: lots of work need to be done on pesticide residue

Agricultural enterprises show great interest in unmanned helicopter spraying market

Planting acreage of early rice in China realizes recovery growth

Wheat diseases and pests to seriously occur in 2012

Crop Protection China News, a semimonthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th and 30th(31st) of every month, aims to gain a deep insight into Chinese market, supply the latest market data and strategy support, analyze the newest legislation and policy and grasp the future market trend.

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Draft of China’s First Grain Law Released

The Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council of China (LAOSCC) released an opinion soliciting draft of the Grain Law on 21 Feb., 2012, aiming to invite public opinions, based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

According to the National Development and Reform Commission and the State Administration of Grain, the joint preparing units of the draft, the main purpose of drafting the law is to ensure grain security by stabilizing grain output, safeguarding grain production and strengthening control and supervision over the market.

Moreover, in the grain processing industry, the draft makes some strict stipulations, aiming to better safeguard food security. For example, grain producers are forbidden to process mildewed grains or those that have been contaminated by pesticide residue, mycotoxin or heavy metals; contaminated vehicles and packing materials are forbidden to be used to transport grain; additives shall be added accordingly.

Aiming to ensure the Grain Law to be fully executed, the draft sets up a Provincial Chief Executive Accountability System. It regulates that the Provincial People's Government Chief Executive shall take the responsibility for grain security in his/her local administrative division. "Clearly defining the responsibilities of the People's Governments at all levels and relevant departments is very important to ensure the implementation of the Grain Law," said an official from LAOSCC.

Actually, the legislation of the Grain Law has been proposed since 1999. However, owing to the complex benefit-based relationships among many related parties, which are difficult to be balanced, the Grain Law has been delayed to be drafted. As more and more worries about grain safety have been raised from the public, especially when China experienced a grain crisis in 2008, Chinese Government finally put its foot down to speed up the legislation of the Grain Law. It is also considered to be the first law that is legislated exclusively for grain in the history of the People's Republic of China.

All in all, it is a very important step that China has taken to ensure domestic grain and food security. The legislation of the Grain Law has been expected and largely supported by the public ascribed to the public's growing concern over grain and food security.

Although some of the stipulations in the draft have raised disputes among the public, many people in China still hold the attitude that "late legislation" is better than none.

Even so, there is one stipulation in the draft should be pointed out, which has confused and disappointed most of the people in China.

Nowadays, GM food safety issues are still very sensitive topics in China. So far, China has approved and granted biosafety certificates to seven GM crops, such as BT cotton and disease-resistant papaya, and approved biosafety certificates of five GM crops for import as processing materials, i.e. GM cotton, GM soybean, GM corn, GM sugar beet and GM canola. Although China has made clear statements that it has never permitted any GM crop to be commercially planted in domestic farmlands, illegally commercial planting of GM crops in China has reached a serious condition, especially GM corn and GM rice. People who are sensitive to GM security have hoped that the Grain Law will take measures to stop the commercial planting of GM crops and punish the illegally planting.

However, what disappointed them is that the statement of the stipulation in the draft is very simple and unclear. According to the 12th stipulation in the draft, any institution or individual must not apply GM technologies to principle grain cultivars without approval. Some sensitive experts expressed their worries about the stipulation that the words "must not and without approval" instead of "are forbidden" used by the government may leave a loophole. They hope that the formal Grain Law which is to be released in the future will more specifically ban the application of GM technology on main grains.

"What we are opposing is the commercial planting of GM crops which will then enter food chain. But we don't oppose the research of GM technology," said Fang Lifeng, director of the food and agricultural project of Greenpeace China.

The stipulations in the Grain Law draft will be discussed according to the opinions from the public and a final version will be nailed down in the formal Grain Law. According to LAOSCC, anyone who has opinions on the draft can login in its official website and submit opinions before 31 March, 2012. Since the draft has not been submitted for discussion on the National People's Congress (5 March-14 March, 2012) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (3 March-12 March, 2012), it would not be released in 2012.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1203

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Content of Crop Protection China News 1203:

Draft of China’s first Grain Law released

Review results of new pesticide products registration released

China to further focus on rural developments and food security

Sinochem to launch six new pesticide products

Huayang Technology's reorganization denied

Hailir Group selling pesticide subsidiary for IPO

Most listed pesticide companies' performance declines in 2011

China's export structure of pesticides changes in 2011

China's corn planting area to increase in 2012

Crop Protection China News, a semimonthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th and 30th(31st) of every month, aims to gain a deep insight into Chinese market, supply the latest market data and strategy support, analyze the newest legislation and policy and grasp the future market trend.

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China Imports More Corn to Meet Domestic Demand

The top news of CCM’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News shows that China hungers for corn import. China may import about 7.4 million tonnes of corn or more to meet domestic demand in 2011.

On September 20, 2011, China State Administration of Grain (CSAG) together with related departments released a notice to China Grain Reserves Corporation (Sinograin) to ensure China's food security and economic growth, aiming to arrange a rotation plan of state corn reserves( about 3.7 million tonnes) and put them all into domestic market to meet the needs by the end of Nov. 2011.

Therefore, China has to supplement more corn to state storage for the next year. The imported corn of China is mainly from US. China has imported more than 1 million tonnes of corn from the US in 2010, exceeding the total import volume of the corn imported from the US in the history. And it has imported 1.25 million tonnes of corn from the US in March 2011. According to the US Grains Council, China's total import volume of corn in 2011 is predicted to reach 7.4 million tonnes or more.

China will rely more and more on importing agricultural commodities. The planting area in China is limited, but the demand for agricultural commodities has witnessed huge increase in recent years. China's corn demand may reach a continuous record high in the next few years and its total import volume of corn utill 2014 is predicted to reach 25 million tonnes. It will replace Japan and become the largest corn importer in the world.

The above news is from CCM’s October issue of Crop Protection China News, with more stories below:

-China may import about 7.4 million tonnes corn or more to meet domestic demand in 2011.

-Medium and small size pesticide players in China are now busy seeking for investment or acquisition, aiming to go through the period of capital shortage recently.

-China will carry out new crop seed development plan in the near future to better manage the development of domestic crop seed industry. The eye-attracting topic of GM grain commercialization is still reported to be not ready in China in the next ten years.

-San Ya City released its new pesticide policy on Sept.19, 2011 and became the lead in Hainan Province to implement the provincial pesticide policy of Implementation Measures.

-Shaanxi Limin sets up two more subsidiaries in Weinan City, aiming to consolidate its chain store business of agricultural materials in Shaanxi Province.

-Hunan Haili has finished the construction of a carbamate insecticide plant with capacity of 10,000t/a in Sept. 2011.

-Seed dressing agent of imidacloprid has been accepted by more and more peasants in China and it may become a big growth point of the product in the near future.

-China's ethephon output increased remarkably in Jan.- July 2011.

-Many tea enterprises try using predatory mite as a bio-control agent against pest mites in Fujian Province recently.

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 (Guangzhou China, October 11, 2011)

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China Hungers for Import Corn

On Sept. 20, 2011, China State Administration of Grain (CSAG) together with related departments released a notice to China Grain Reserves Corporation (Sinograin), a state-owned enterprise which plays a key role in carrying out state initiatives to ensure China's food security and economic growth, aiming to arrange a rotation plan of state corn reserves, about 3.7 million tonnes, and put them all into domestic market to meet the needs by the end of Nov. 2011, according to CCM’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

As such great volume of reserved corn will be put into market, China has to add more corn to state storage for the next year. Thus some domestic experts predict that China may import corn of 2.5 million tonnes in 2011, which is mainly from the US, up 59.24% over 2010 and reaching a new record high.

Corn, a kind of grain crop with the largest planting area in China, is annually planted in a total area of around 30 million ha., accounting for more than 30% of the total grain planting area in China. Its planting area and yield in 2010 reaches about 32.5 million ha. and 177 million tonnes, up 4.2% and 5.8% over 2009 respectively. According to the predicted data from China Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), the planting area and yield of corn in China are predicted to reach 32.56 million ha. and 182.5 million tonnes, slightly up and up 3% over 2010 respectively.

Although China's corn planting area and corn yield are gradually increasing in recent years, it still can't meet the needs of the expanding corn market. China consumed over 180 million tonnes of corn in 2010 so it has to import 1.5 million tonnes of corn to meet the needs pushed up by the large consumption in domestic market and slight export volume.

In the last decade, China's largest annual corn import volume was merely 100,000 tonnes and the corn produced by itself can meet the basic need of domestic market. Actually, China was nearly a net exporter of corn with little corn imported before 2010. However, things changed gradually in recent years. Large areas of drought in 2009 and the increase of corn demand have made China largely import corn from the US and other countries.

China has imported more than 1 million tonnes of corn from the US in 2010, exceeds the total import volume of the corn imported from the US in the history. And it has imported 1.25 million tonnes of corn from the US in March 2011. According to US Grains Council, China's total import volume of corn in 2011 is predicted to reach 7.4 million tonnes or more. However, China will choose to import such big volume of corn from the US or Argentina is still not decided.

China will rely more and more on importing agricultural commodities. The planting area in China is limited, but the demand for agricultural commodities has witnessed huge increase in recent years. China's corn demand may reach continuous record high in the next few years and its total import volume of corn till 2014 is predicted to reach 25 million tonnes. It will replace Japan and become the largest corn importer in the world.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1118

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Content of Crop Protection China News 1118:

China hungers for import corn

Medium and small size pesticide player start seeking for help

GM grain commercialization in China: impossible in next ten years

San Ya leads to carry out new pesticide policy

Shaanxi Limin’s expansion kicks off

Hunan Haili finishes constructing 10,000t/a carbamate insecticide plant

Seed dressing agent: growth point of imidacloprid

China's ethephon output increases in Jan.- July 2011

Using predatory mites to control pest mites on tea plant

Crop Protection China News, a semimonthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th and 30th(31st) of every month, aims to gain a deep insight into Chinese market, supply the latest market data and strategy support, analyze the newest legislation and policy and grasp the future market trend.

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(Guangzhou China, October 9, 2011)

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