Chapter 109: The Food War
Thanks to the 100 starting coins rewarded by the Maryane brothers and the 100 starting coins rewarded by the Huanyan brothers. Seeing that Hou Peng was leaving, Jin San hurriedly said: "Wait for the second brother, when will you not be able to convince your father-in-law?" Now you'd better stammer with this kid first! ”
"Brother?" Hou Peng looked at Li Lindao.
Jin San said: "This kid is a big official in his family, since you are an official fan, it will not be wrong to hold his thighs." ”
Li Lin has seen a lot of this situation, he is just without desire, Jin San doesn't ask him, so Jin San has never taken his young man seriously, but after other people know his details, few people can hold back the ** in their hearts, Li Lin is a golden prince, not everyone can know him casually.
"This is Li Lin, the old man of his family once served as the big boss of our province, and now he has gone to the capital, such a big thick leg is not hugged, so can he still mix in the officialdom?"
"Huh?" Although he guessed that Li Lin's family might be very powerful, Hou Peng never thought that Li Lin could directly reach the sky, this is a super elephant leg shining with ten thousand golden lights!
"Hello, I'm Hou Peng, I am the deputy mayor of Wangquan Town, and I will need Li Dashao to help me in the system in the future." Since Jin San said it directly, Hou Peng didn't need to hide it.
However, Li Lin and their princes still eat this set, he said happily: "Well, I can find some feelings in you, otherwise I really think that you people here are all high monks who eat fasting and chant Buddha, why do they not know how to worship such a great Bodhisattva?" Jin San said: "I don't want to be an official, even if your old man is here, I don't need to flatter!" ”
"What you are talking about, I don't know what the relationship between Brother Hou and Hou Zhong is?"
"Hou Zhong's second brother." Jin Sandao.
"Oops! Hou Zhong's brother, then we are a family, it is not easy to be an official, now my uncle is still in the provincial party committee, I will give you a number, and you will find him directly if you have something in the future. Li Lin said with a big grin.
But he is not a casual seller, Jin San is now registered with his uncle, a Jin family water army network, so that Jin San has become famous, maybe they haven't noticed it yet, but there are really a lot of clear-eyed people.
The peculiar plants on the Jin family's water army network are really attractive, the republic has been established for sixty or seventy years, although it has developed well over the years, but for so many years, it is just that the country will not starve to death.
But now Jinsan's technology can definitely make the originally scarce food become rich.
Food is the foundation of a country, and as long as there is a shortage of food, all kinds of problems will appear.
China's traditional soybean producing areas are in the northeast, especially Heilongjiang.
Soybeans are produced from soybean oil and soybean meal, both of which are clearly edible oils, and soybean meal is the main source of protein in animal feed.
Before 1994, China's soybeans were basically self-sufficient and exported in small quantities, but after that, with the improvement of living standards, especially the demand for meat, China began to become a pure soybean importer. By 2011, China needed to import 75% of its soybeans.
The corresponding per capita meat consumption of Chinese has risen from less than 10 kg/year a few decades ago to 60 kg/year in 2011, which is close to the level of European and American countries, far exceeding the rest of Asia (for example, South Korea was 37 kg in 2011).
Since 75% of China's soybeans need to be imported, they are of course unwilling to sell them at low prices, and at the same time they want to control China's soybean crushing market and control the entire supply chain in their hands.
So at the beginning of the century, they went into action.
In 2001~2004, because of speculation on Chinese demand, U.S. soybeans were fried from 415 to 1064 (unit: cents/bushel), and Chinese soybeans also rose in the same period.
As a result, soybean farmers in Northeast China have expanded their planting and their domestic crushing capacity has also increased significantly.
Then from April 2004, soybean prices at home and abroad plummeted, and in just seven months, U.S. soybeans fell from 1,064 to 500, more than half of the waist.
Domestic soybean prices have also plummeted, and many soybean farmers have suffered huge losses.
The domestic crushing enterprises, the soybeans they imported are still at sea, the price has fallen a lot, and they have to "wash the ship", that is, they would rather be fined for breach of contract than receive the goods and let the seller resell them to others.
Many domestic crushing enterprises have closed down due to huge losses, and foreign capital has taken the opportunity to acquire the layout at a low price, basically controlling China's crushing industry.
It can be said that in this soybean war, China lost, and it lost completely.
However, it also served as a wake-up call to China, and in the larger confrontation that followed, China gained experience.
Now that foreign capital controls China's repressive market, they are of course chasing maximum profits.
So from 2006, another wave of bigger rises began, the United States soybeans from more than 500, has risen to 1654 in July 2008, the impact on China is: soybean oil from 5000 / ton, the highest rise to 15000 / ton, soybean meal from 2000 yuan / ton to more than 4000 / ton.
As a result, domestic edible oil and pork prices reached a peak in 2008.
At that time, China could do little because before 2008, China's grain reserves were dominated by staple grains (wheat and corn), and soybeans and soybean oil were very small.
However, China still did its best, and in March 2008, it used administrative intervention to limit the price increase of edible oil, and at the same time arranged for state-owned enterprises such as China National Grain Reserves and COFCO to enter the market and use small packages to supply edible oil at designated points.
The price of soybean oil began to plummet on March 4, from 15,000 to about 10,000 in just half a month.
Many merchants who bid up prices and engage in hoarding have lost their money.
The price of soybean oil is down, but the price of soybeans cannot be helped, because it mainly depends on imports.
As a result, domestic and foreign speculators then speculated the price of soybean meal to 4,200 per tonne, causing meat and poultry prices to skyrocket, but at this time, the global financial situation had begun to peak.
When the '08 financial crisis hit, soybean prices plummeted, from a high in early July to half by the end of the year.
Once again, China's soybean farmers are facing huge losses.
At this time, China suddenly purchased a large amount of storage, and the price was higher than the market price, which was slightly higher than the planting cost of soybean farmers.
At this time, the whole market found that China had changed its strategy, that is: since it is impossible for domestic soybeans to meet demand, I rely on huge reserves to stabilize market prices.
When the price is too low, I buy, and when the price is too high, I sell.
But when China's soybean reserves reach half a year or even a year's consumption, no one dares to speculate.
It can be said that since 08, although China has imported more and more soybeans, domestic soybean prices are basically in a stable state.
Speculators had to play rocking between soybean oil and soybean meal, and no one dared to fry soybeans.
Given China's population and arable land, it is unlikely that China will be self-sufficient in both staple foods and soybeans.
Therefore, China's current strategy is that it must be self-sufficient in staple foods, and soybeans must be imported.
For the soybean-growing areas of Northeast China, the yield of staple grain per acre is three times that of soybeans.
If soybean self-sufficiency is to be achieved, there will be a shortage of more than 100 million tons of food every year, which is a terrifying thing.
If there are fewer soybeans, it is nothing more than cooking with less oil or less meat, but if there is less staple food, something big will happen.
Some people say that staple grains can also be imported, and if staple grains are also imported, China may be worse than India.
China is now buying grain from farmers at a higher and higher price, and the money is well spent.
For example, spending an extra 10 billion yuan a year to purchase grain from farmers, so that farmers feel cost-effective and willing to grow grain, this is the best choice, if you rely on foreign imports, you may have to spend an extra 100 billion or even trillions.
For farmers in the United States and South America, China is actually helping them to raise prices, so that foreign farmers feel that the price is good and are willing to grow soybeans for China, which is the best option for China.
More than 10% of the planet's population is still hungry, and about 800 million people worldwide are hungry.
Food is not just food, but a strategic weapon!
The era of high food prices worldwide has arrived, and in the era of globalization, who is dominating the world food trade system?
Who is profiting from the world's agricultural trade?
Who is in charge of the world's food supply, and how is the world's food system destroying people's health?
Now that the country has joined the WTO, it is not even possible to stop the exploitation of foreign grain giants.
In recent years, the price of what is bought in China has risen, and what is sold is not valuable, this means that there are no resources in hand, especially for a country with a large population like China, even if there are a lot of domestic resources, and even stand in the forefront of the world, but the average is still very little.
Food is different from other things, the Chinese political axe that has been passed down for thousands of years, and any dynasty attaches importance to agriculture, and there is no agricultural stability, which is not a joke.
Now Jinsan's research on plant hormones is at the forefront of the world, and there are all kinds of signs that the technology in Jinsan's hands has reached the point of reaching its peak.
It is for this reason that after Jin San's Jin family's water army network survived the initial dangerous stage, no one wanted to trouble him in the back.
This is because some of the seeds published on the Internet by the Jin family's water army, the farm game that is almost child's play, but the seeds in it are what everyone wants.
Jin San didn't go home for the past two days, he didn't know, his house had been patronized by several groups of people, but those people didn't get much useful from him.
Those people didn't dare to startle the snakes, at most they collected some specimens from some plants cultivated by Jin San, and the most important plant nutrient solution, Jin San was all used to plant greenhouse vegetables in thousands of acres of gardens.
And he wasn't at home in the past two days, so after the plant nutrient solution was consumed, he didn't have time to reconfigure, and all the secrets of Jin San were all in the plant nutrient solution.
Although Jin San said that it is a plant nutrient solution, in fact, this plant nutrient solution is a hormone with a reasonable match, not a hormone that promotes growth and growth, nor is it a hormone that allows plants to bloom and bear fruit in advance, and fully activates all the gene chains in the plant, so that the plant as a whole is in an active state.