In May, the pig grain price ratio further fell below the breakeven point, and the industry's losses increased.

In Hebei Province, Jiagu completed one of the largest reserve warehouse parks in North China.

Since the release and implementation of the national "Grain Modern Logistics Development Plan" in 07, Jiagu Group's grain infrastructure construction and grain logistics channel construction in various places have begun to accelerate, and grain and oil storage facilities have been laid out across the country.

In this reserve warehouse area, there are different warehouse types for different storage needs such as storage, transit, and storage.

After holding a low-key completion ceremony, Qi Zheng and Li Dongliang, accompanied by the staff, entered one of the reserve cold storages.

Before entering the cold storage, the two wrapped themselves in thick down jackets, but the staff still felt that it was not enough, and found heavy cotton coats for them to wear.

Although it is his own warehouse, even if it is Qi Zheng, it is not easy to enter this reserve warehouse and need to go through layers of approval, and the key to the warehouse door is guarded by a special person.

After all, this is a national reserve meat storage depot!

Many people know that the country has a grain reserve system, but in fact, it is not only food, but also many strategic materials, including salt, rubber, steel, etc., and the country has a corresponding reserve system. And pork is also one of them.

It should be said that the state has only paid attention to pork reserves in the past two years. The pain of the snow disaster at the beginning of 08 made the state decide to increase the amount of frozen meat reserves, and at the same time change the previous practice of renting all social cold storage, establish a reserve meat cold storage directly managed by the state, and effectively regulate the pork market into a new stage.

Of course, even if there is a treasury directly under the state, it is still necessary to store the enterprise.

It is not so easy to become a storage company, and the state also has strict regulations on the qualifications of storage enterprises. In addition to meeting the requirements of relevant standards and technical specifications of cold storage, live animal reserve base farms, but also requires enterprises to be in good financial condition, the asset-liability ratio is less than 70%.

As one of the top pig giants in China and a grain and oil giant with a relatively complete domestic storage network, Jiagu Group has become one of the national reserve meat storage enterprises after taking the initiative to apply and being recommended by the local government to the central government.

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As the cold storage door slowly opened, a cold air came to the face.

The cold air in the cold storage is emitted from the top and all around, in order to ensure that the temperature of the center point of the cold storage can be below -18 °C, the setting temperature needs to be lower, and the thermometer pointer in the cold storage shows that the current temperature is -20 °C.

If it is an ordinary person, even if he is wrapped in a cotton coat and wears a down jacket inside, he will still be shivering from the cold, such as Li Dongliang, who accompanied him, only felt that the cold air passed through the soles of his feet from the cement floor and entered his limbs, freezing to the point of "brain pain".

Qi Zheng was not afraid of the cold, and looked around after entering the cold storage.

Unlike the imaginary scene, there are no pieces of white pigs hanging on the iron rack, and the cold storage is stacked on the roof of cardboard boxes, which are discharged in an orderly manner according to the batch and storage time, and the smell of raw pork is emitted through the cartons.

Frozen meat is not the kind of pig that many people imagine, after slaughtering, just throw it directly into the cold storage for preservation.

According to the staff, the preservation technology of frozen meat is a very complex discipline, which needs to go through multiple processes such as pre-cooling and acid removal, meat freezing pre-treatment, control of freezing speed, primary freezing, secondary freezing, and frozen meat refrigeration, which can minimize all kinds of losses of meat in the long-term freezing process.

After such an operation, in addition to the taste and aroma of frozen meat is slightly different from fresh meat, its nutritional value and food safety have not changed.

Qi Zheng and Li Dongliang took a closer look, and the frozen pork in the carton was different parts of the pig, including front leg meat, hind leg meat, neckless front row, as well as pork belly, minced meat, pig trotters, pork belly, etc. Outside the box of each batch, there is also a government reserve meat storage card, which lists a series of information such as the warehouse number, pile number, quantity, origin and production time.

Li Dongliang muttered: "The pigs we bought from Pingshan County are all stored here?"

Qi Zheng bowed: "It should be said that those who meet the reserve requirements are here." ”

According to national requirements, the scale of pork storage in this reserve is about 10,000 tons, but Jiagu stores twice as much pork.

"Half of it is regular pork, and half of it is our Jiagu pork. It will be added later depending on the situation. Qi Zheng said lightly.

Li Dongliang trembled and asked, "How long will this meat be stored?"

This point Qi Zheng is clear, and it is different from what most people imagine, the pork reserves are not "eternal", but always in "dynamic".

"Generally speaking, the storage time of reserve meat is 6 months, but in order to ensure quality, in fact, each round is stored for about 4 months, and 3 rounds per year, that is, these frozen meats are constantly 'renewed'. ”

Li Dongliang thought for a while: "The time is not too long, and the fragrance and taste should not have much impact!"

In fact, normally speaking, frozen meat is still inferior to fresh pork in terms of flavor and taste, and the main reason for this is the loss of moisture in pork. Even in the frozen state, the meat will lose moisture, and in the technology of frozen meat, this is called "dry consumption", that is, the water is sublimated, and the solid water molecules are directly vaporized, resulting in poor meat quality.

But the freezer of the Jiagu system can never be regarded as "normal".

"Frost withering autumn formation trigger, main water and fire system, range: a radius of one hundred kilometers. Effect: Frosting, freezing. It can make the frost and ice, into autumn to winter. ”

Under the effect of this "cold" spirit array, the water-locking effect of frozen products is very good, and the impact on quality after freezing is minimal. Of course, Qi Zheng will not take the initiative to explain, so that Li Dongliang and others will have the illusion that freezing has little impact on product quality.

"However, even if the quality is not very important, frozen meat is still not as popular as fresh meat; is it really necessary for us to stock up so much more than we require?" asked Li Dongliang softly, avoiding the staff.

Qi Zheng said with a serious face: "Of course it is necessary, this is one of the guarantees related to national security! In the event of a major natural disaster, public health emergency, etc., the more perfect our reserves are, the greater the help we will be to the country!"

Li Dongliang was silent. National security, these four words, no matter when, seem to have a special magic.

In fact, what Qi Zheng did not say is that this is not only a guarantee of safety, but also the ability to regulate the pork market.

As we all know, low elasticity of demand is a common feature of agricultural products, which means that small fluctuations in supply are very likely to cause drastic changes in prices. The so-called "garlic you ruthless", "ginger you army", "beans you play", the reason why it can be fried is not unrelated to the characteristics of agricultural products.

The same is true for pork, where a small reduction in supply can trigger a price spike. For example, in '07, the supply of hogs decreased by only 8%, while the price of pork rose by about 65%.

Ordinary enterprises have neither the ability nor the awareness, and they can only rely on the state to build hundreds of thousands of tons of reserve meat by themselves. And if Jiagu has half of the reserves in the national reserve system, when the price fluctuates sharply, or the supply of pork is tight, the contribution is greater.

Not only in Hebei Province, but also in Yue Province, in Hubei Province...... Jiagu's storage and cold storage in the country is also part of the national reserve "pig weaving network".

Jiagu reserves pork for the country, and when the state regulates the market, Jiagu's influence in the industry must be increased by at least an order of magnitude!

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