Vegetables are on the agenda

This winter, Chinese cabbage is also listed at the same time, it is also facing the price of winter. According to the Xinhua News Agency's National Agricultural Product Price System Monitoring, on November 28, Chinese cabbage prices fell by 2.2%. Many Chinese provinces and municipalities in the North have had “selling difficulties” for Chinese cabbage. Compared with October 1, the price of Chinese cabbage dropped by nearly 40% on November 28, and the decline in Shandong was more than 60%.

The recent fall in the price of vegetables hurt farmers, once again let farmers think of vegetable price insurance. “The weather is the same as the market, and no one can make any changes. If they can participate in insurance, the farmers will eat a “centering pill,” and no longer worry that they will experience severe weather or large market fluctuations.” Liaocheng Qixian Yan Tower Zheng Jinfa, president of the Vegetable Cooperatives, told the Economic Herald reporter.

Chinese cabbage can not sell "cabbage price"

At the moment, it is the season when a large number of cabbages are on the market. This year, Shandong cabbage has achieved a bumper harvest, but prices have dropped from more than one yuan per catty last year to more than one cent.

On the afternoon of the 28th, the rain was getting bigger and bigger. There were many dishes in the car selling cabbage near the village of Wuyingshan New Village in Jinan. “It costs 5 pounds a dollar.” Lao Yu shouted.

Old Yu Changqing District vegetable farmers in Jinan City, this year since the cabbage harvest, every morning he took a car of cabbage to the shadow of the village near the new village, "Come to go to work in the city, the road to go better." Lao Yu told Herald reporter, this year his family planted a total of more than 5 acres of cabbage, the total output of nearly 50,000 kilograms, wholesale at home, a pound also seven or eight cents.

He reported to the reporter that such an account: cabbage from the start of sowing, nursery, watering, fertilizing, fighting drugs to the final harvest, plus a piece of acre on the need of 6000 yuan, which is not the cost of labor for 4 months. "Even 8 cents per catty is not even enough for fertilizer. I can sell 0.25 to 0.3 yuan here, just enough."

Since the beginning of this year, the phenomenon of “food and vegetables hurting farmers” has appeared many times, from the slow-selling of some leafy vegetables in April to the drop of prices of garlic and ginger in early October, and to the current cabbage, the interests of vegetable farmers have been greatly lost.

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that the price of agricultural products has repeatedly interpreted the “roller coaster” market. Changes in the weather and supply and demand relations have had some impact on the sharp fluctuations in the prices of agricultural products this year, but in a deep sense, production , marketing methods are in urgent need of change.

Insurance Promotion Needs Government Support In recent years, in order to help farmers, all forms of love have been purchased and refurbished. “Compared to the huge excess planting, loving subscriptions cannot solve the fundamental problem.” Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shandong Administration College, Shandong Rural Reform Gao Huanxi, director of the Institute for Development Studies and a leading reporter of the Institute of Development Studies, told reporters that “the government can establish an insurance mechanism to support farmers in insurance and establish a rescue mechanism.”

In April this year, the Ministry of Commerce proposed to “support vegetable farmers for insurance and establish a rescue mechanism” to promote vegetable farmers' insurance coverage, guide vegetable production and circulation entities to establish risk-sharing, benefit-sharing, and long-term and stable cooperation mechanisms to prevent “vegetarian farmers from injuring farmers”.

The Herald reporter learned from relevant departments on the 29th that although the scope and varieties of policy agricultural insurance in Shandong have increased, the vegetable price insurance and disaster weather insurance that vegetable farmers most want to insure are still missing.

The reporter’s report noted in the 2011 Implementation Plan for the Shandong Provincial Agricultural Insurance Pilot Program that policy agricultural insurance in Shandong included wheat, corn, and cotton, and vegetables were not included in the insurance coverage. The "Proposal" also stipulates: "where conditions permit, we can carry out pilot projects for other types of insurance such as high value-added cash crops according to actual conditions, and the premium subsidies should be borne by all localities."

The Herald reporter learned that the vegetable green shed insurance insurance products that Shandong Province is currently injecting are the damage of the plastic greenhouse sheds and the resulting direct loss of shed vegetables. The price of crops and crops in the shed is not guaranteed.

In fact, vegetable price insurance has been successfully piloted in the field. According to the Reporter’s report, last year, Shanghai was the first country to introduce a “cost-price insurance for winter vegetables” in the country. This year, it also formulated the “Summer” green leaf vegetable cost-price insurance plan for the phenomenon of “food and vegetables hurt farmers”. Related insurance.

The financial subsidies for these types of cities and municipalities are up to 50%. The finance of each district/county can determine the proportion of subsidies on its own according to the actual situation, and the proportion of the insured’s self-paid premiums should not be less than 10%.

Wang Zhigang, a senior insurer of the Zheshang Insurance Shandong Branch’s Industry Management Department, said in an interview with a reporter that the promotion of open-end vegetable price insurance requires a fairly comprehensive risk system and policy support. The government must encourage farmers to insure and provide a certain amount of subsidies. It is also necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of insurance companies to carry out pilot projects and give certain policy support.