Shanxi Grain Supply Side Reform "Removing Corn High Stocks"

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] Nowadays, it is a scene of busy farming . In the spring sowing, Yuanping City, Shanxi Province reduced the average corn planting area of ​​farmers by one-fifth. This is a microcosm of the reform of the grain supply side in Shanxi Province. Shanxi Province is one of the major maize producing provinces in China. In the mid-1990s, Shanxi implemented a high-yield corn strategy across the province. According to statistics, in 2000, the planting area of ​​corn in Shanxi Province was 18 million mu, and has increased since then. In 2016, the first year of China's supply-side structural reform, “removing high stocks of corn” was the main line of reform of the food supply side. In 2016, Shanxi corn planting area has been reduced for 16 years.

Shanxi Grain Supply Side Reform "Removing Corn High Stocks"

According to a new survey by the Shanxi Survey Team of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, the area of ​​corn that occupied half of the grain crops in Shanxi was 24,371,300 mu, a decrease of 786,600 mu from the same period of the previous year and a year-on-year decrease of 3.11%.

Liu Chuan, a staff member of the Agricultural Investigation Department of the Shanxi Survey Corps of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on the 6th that 2016 was the reduction after the continuous growth of corn area in Shanxi. The supply-side reform and the fall in corn prices were the main reasons for the decrease in corn planting area in Shanxi.

Since 2016, Shanxi has actively promoted the adjustment of agricultural planting structure and guided farmers to reduce the area of ​​ordinary corn planting in non-advantageous areas. According to the survey, in 2016, the area of ​​corn planting in the areas of Ganzhou, Zhangzhou and Datong in Shanxi was greatly reduced.

At the same time as cracking the traditional planting structure of “corn alone”, as the main producing area of ​​potato (commonly known as “potato”), Shanxi's potato planting area has increased significantly under the policy of promoting the “main grain” of potato.

According to the survey data of the Shanxi Survey Corps of the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, the potato planting area in Shanxi was 2,742,200 mu, an increase of 235,100 mu over the previous year, an increase of 9.38%. At present, Shanxi has gradually formed three major potato industrial belts, Yanmenguan, Taihang Mountain and Luliang Mountain.