A sugarcane is connected to the sugar jar of the people at one end, and the hope of sugarcane farmers in the main producing areas to increase their income.

In the largest sugar-producing area in Gui province - Chongzuo.

After Jiagu Sugar entered Gui Province, its first concern was not the sugar factory, but the cultivation of sugarcane.

Qi Zheng and Zhong Huazhi went deep into the sugarcan fields to investigate the impact of drought on sugarcane planting, "The vigorous development of the sugar industry in Guizhou Province is really an inevitable choice under the superposition of advantages and disadvantages!"

On the red soil, sugar cane is planted all over the place.

Of course, at this time, the sugarcane in the field has been harvested, leaving only the roots in the field, waiting for a new crop of sugarcane to continue to grow in the new growing season.

This kind of sugarcane is not a "fruit cane" used to eat, but a so-called "sugar cane" in the industry, which has a higher sugar content than fruit cane, and can only be sent to the sugar factory to extract sugar if it can't bite its teeth.

At the same time, more than 48% of the province's area is karst landform, and the structural and seasonal water shortage is serious, and the drought of grain crops is frequent, and sugarcane is probably the best choice.

However, drought is still the number one factor affecting sugarcane production, especially the continuous drought since last year, which has seriously restricted the improvement of local sugarcane production capacity.

However, compared with the climate, there are more difficulties that the "returnee" Jiagu Sugar Industry needs to adapt to.

"The gap between the domestic sugar industry and the major international sugar exporters is mainly the gap between the sugar cane planting industry. This is most intuitive in the eyes of Zhong Huazhi, who has just returned from Brazil.

Brazil, Australia and other countries have generally realized the large-scale, mechanized sugar cane planting industry, and the cost is low, while China's sugar cane planting, to put it mildly, is still in the stage of small-scale traditional farming.

Of course, comparing the national conditions at home and abroad, this has long been expected.

Zhong Huazhi's biggest emotion is that "unlike the market regulation in Australia and Brazil, domestic sugarcane purchases are guided by the government, which means that sugar companies have to bear heavier responsibilities......"

Do you want to ignore the benefits of sugarcane farmers when the market is good, or when the market is down, you don't buy sugarcane and don't care about the lives of sugarcane farmers?

No way!

Because the government will give a guide price, the sugar mill has to buy the sugarcane according to the guide price given by the government.

In this way, if the market is good and the benefits are good, maybe the sugar mills and sugar cane farmers will be better for everyone.

But if the price of sugar is low, if the sugar mill still buys sugarcane at the guide price, it may lose one ton for every ton of sugar produced, and the more it produces, the greater the loss.

Costs can't go down, but the sugar mill can't rest – the sugar mill has been resting for a long time.

You must know that when sugar is squeezed from cane, the sugar factory only has about 5-6 months of time in the sugar mill throughout the year, that is, from November to the end of April of the following year, which is called a crushing season.

In other words, these sugar factories will spend half of the year in the crushing period, and only some workers will be given vacation to organize the maintenance of the machinery. If you want to squeeze sugar, you can only wait until the next crushing season arrives.

Due to the incoherence of sugar production, but the whole factory has to support the workers throughout the year, and the wages are still paid, which makes the development of this industry difficult and has many unknown particularities.

Is there any industry enterprise that only produces for half a year but has to support workers throughout the year?

There is no doubt that a business without money will not last long.

As a result, the sugar factories that could not survive were either merged or quietly closed down, and finally the "leftover" was king - at its peak, there were hundreds of sugar factories in various parts of Gui Province, but now less than half are left.

Moreover, this is just the beginning, and the real industry reshuffle is coming.

"Either strengthen the construction of sugarcane planting bases and reduce the production cost of sugar industry from the source; or extend the industrial chain and improve the efficiency of sugarcane processing; or, both!" A few faint words, Qi Zheng set the policy of Jiagu Sugar Industry to break the situation in China.

In accordance with this principle, Jiagu Sugar and the local government have reached a strategic cooperation agreement to use the sugarcane resources in the Chongzuo area to invest in the construction of refined sugar and other high-end sugar and supporting industries to develop a circular economy, and the government has promoted the acquisition of three sugar factories by Jiagu Sugar to deepen the integration of production capacity.

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Jiagu Sugar settled in Guizhou Province, and a number of domestic sugar companies that have long taken root in the local area have mixed feelings.

For example, Guoliang Tunhe, the largest beet sugar producer in China, and Bright Food, which acquired the largest sugar enterprise in Yunnan Province and entered the ranks of the top ten sugar enterprises in the country......

These two companies are not only striving towards the goal of leading the domestic sugar industry, but also dreaming of entering overseas high-quality sugar production areas and carrying out global layout.

Therefore, for Jiagu Sugar, which already has good strength in the overseas market, it is both envious and vigilant to go the opposite way and run back to domestic competition.

Of course, no matter how vigilant you are, at present, the well water does not interfere with the river water - after all, the major sugar factories can only purchase sugar in the designated area, and they can't do it if they want to "make the well water the river water".

At the annual sugar industry work conference held in Guizhou Province, the person in charge of Bright Sugar Industry glanced at the representative of Jiagu Sugar Industry, pouted and said to the person in charge of Guoliang Tunhe, an old acquaintance next to him: "Jiagu Sugar Industry has good luck and has caught up with such a bull market. ”

The person in charge of the national grain Tunhe disagreed: "People have already entered the market overseas......

The person in charge of Bright Sugar shook his head: "I admit that foreign sugar production efficiency is higher. But foreign is foreign, domestic is domestic, and having fun abroad does not mean that you can have fun at home. ”

"Jiagu Sugar in Australia and Brazil are all mechanized operations, which may not be easy to ...... in China."

Who doesn't know that the low level of mechanization has always been an important reason for the high cost of sugarcane cultivation in China.

Taking the harvesting process as an example, the cost of manual cane cutting and loading is 180 yuan per ton, and the switch to machinery only needs 80 yuan tons, which means that the sugarcane field with a yield of 6 tons per mu can save 600 yuan per mu by using mechanization!

But sugarcane mechanization is not just about buying a harvester - this is a complex system engineering, and the business model and the technical model must complement each other in order to achieve the purpose of reducing costs.

For a simple example, at present, most of the rows of sugarcane planting in China are 0.4~1.2m, which does not match the harvesting machinery. To mechanize, it is first necessary to carry out research on the combination of agricultural machinery and agronomy, and promote wide row planting.

Sugar companies are not ignorant of the benefits of mechanized planting, but first, many sugar companies do not have the financial strength, and secondly, they ...... I really don't have the research ability and energy to do this!

"Besides, the domestic sugar industry is more involved, and how to deal with sugarcane farmers, Jiagu Sugar has not experienced it......" said the person in charge of Bright Sugar with some schadenfreude.

At least 12 million farmers in Guizhou Province are involved in the cultivation of sugar cane, and if it is connected to the industrial chain links such as cane cutting, machine farming, transportation, and processing, 20 million farmers will be involved!

The difficulty of reconciling the quality of the sugar cane farmers has caused many sugar mills to have a headache in dealing with the relationship with sugar farmers.

For example, the problem of deducting impurities for incoming raw cane is clearly stipulated in the notice of cutting cane, and the requirements are basically not deducted or controlled below 1.5%.

However, some sugarcane farmers are opportunistic to increase the weight of sugarcane, and deliberately leave the cane leaves at will, or deliberately leave the cane tail too long to the leaf tip, or deliberately cut the cane head too low and cut it with mud on the head......

In order to warn other speculators, sugar mills have to impose heavy fines on individual sugarcane farmers or owners, but this can easily discourage sugarcane farmers.

"If we mobilize the peasants to plant sugarcane one by one, guide the peasants to manage and protect the sugarcane one by one, and then organize the peasants to harvest the sugarcane and haul the sugarcane one by one at the end of the year, how much personnel and energy will be required? I don't believe that the Jiagu Sugar Industry, which operates almost entirely mechanized in foreign countries, has the ability to do so. ”

But the person in charge of the national grain Tunhe looked serious: "No, it can really have!"

Compared with the person in charge of Bright Sugar, who rarely deals with the Jiagu system, the Guoliang Group does not dare to underestimate Jiagu at all, and it can even be said that it cannot be overemphasized for the Jiagu system!

"That's how Jiagu started, do you think it has such organizational management capabilities?"

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