Chapter 148: The Soybean War

When the country is secretly accumulating strength, preparing to overthrow the other four big hooligans.

It's Labor Day.

However, this May is destined to be a day to be remembered by mankind, the rice plague is spreading inexorably around the world, and countries are helpless about it.

In East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia, which are traditionally rice-growing regions, this year's early rice harvest has completely failed.

China and Northeast Asia, which reacted quickly, benefited from the relatively high latitude and the late arrival of spring, and the timely planting of other grain crops did not cause a decrease in domestic grain production.

On the contrary, China's total grain output is likely to reach a new high this year, as the Huanong Group's large-scale transformation of wasteland and the development of rural cooperatives have restored many previously abandoned farmland in rural areas.

However, the south, which uses rice as the staple food, is more sad this year, so it can only switch to pasta and potatoes.

In Southeast Asia and South Asia, where the national organization capacity is not strong, with the arrival of the tropical rainy season and the high incidence of typhoons, many farmlands are not suitable for planting corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes in the continuous rainy season.

The reduction in food crop production is very obvious.

For example, in Tianzhu, after the annihilation of the early rice army in spring, on the one hand, the replanting was not timely, and on the other hand, the regulation and control were unreasonable, and this year's spring grain output was only about 97 million tons.

This level does not seem to have much impact, because Tianzhu can grow three crops a year, but the reality is very serious.

If we compare the spring grain output in previous years, we can see how terrible the food crisis in Tianzhu is.

In 2014, the total annual grain output of Tianzhu was about 310 million tons, including 156 million tons of spring grain, 51 million tons of summer grain and 104 million tons of autumn grain.

Now it is very clear that although the tropics can be planted three seasons a year, the summer is hot, rainy and typhoon-like, and it is not a bumper grain harvest period; In autumn, although the rainy season will weaken, typhoons are also frequent, which are factors that seriously affect grain production.

In other words, the gap of Tianzhu spring grain this year is as high as 60 million tons, and even if the 13 million tons of rice are not exported, it will not be able to fill this big hole.

In the summer and autumn grains, rice already accounts for a very large proportion, but now rice cannot be planted, and those paddy fields are difficult to transform for a while, which will further increase the grain gap.

It is expected that in 2015, the overall grain gap in Tianzhu will expand to 8000~900000000 tons, affecting 600 million people.

As for the situation in Southeast Asia, it is also not optimistic; in the international rush for grain in January, Southeast Asia lost a lot of grain, and by the time they reacted to the restrictions on exports, domestic grain reserves had fallen to a record low.

At present, the country with the largest grain self-sufficiency gap in Southeast Asia is the South China Thousand Islands, with an overall food deficit of 33%, followed by Annam with 24% and Myanmar with 17%.

Countries such as Siam, Luzon, and Malaysia are barely self-sufficient.

In the international grain price, rice has soared to 2,670 US dollars per ton, wheat flour is 1,975 US dollars per ton, and corn is 1,150 US dollars per ton.

The prices of the three major staple grains have soared to varying degrees, and the world's largest grain exporter, Mi, is not only reducing exports, but also constantly raising prices.

Huanong Group, Ganjiang Provincial Headquarters.

Acting Chairman Liu Qinghe, Vice Chairman Hu Yue (also in charge of rural cooperatives), Vice Acting Chairman Jin Yang (also in charge of international trade) and others held an emergency meeting.

"These ghosts really don't have a good heart." Jin Yang angrily slapped an international soybean price on the table.

Liu Qinghe had long expected this, after all, with the soaring international food prices, soybeans, which have vague food attributes (can be used as oil crops or food crops), will naturally be affected.

The five largest soybean producers in the country have collectively raised the price of exported soybean products, and the mention is 30%.

"I guess the Mi guys will beat the snake and stick it, and they have to make inches." Hu Yue calmly analyzed.

Jin Yang, who had a headache, frowned and asked, "Lao Hu, how many soybeans can your rural cooperatives produce this year?"

Hu Yue shook his head helplessly: "Heijiang Province and the largest soybean production area in China, accounting for 36% of the country's output, last year produced a total of 4.73 million tons of soybeans, this year's glass greenhouse renovation project is completed, it is estimated that the output can be increased to about 10 million tons, next year can be increased to 15 million tons, next year's total national output can be increased to about 30 million tons." ”

At present, the domestic soybean import volume is very high, reaching as many as 80 million tons, and the self-sufficiency rate of domestic soybeans is only about 17%.

Jin Yang's face was solemn: "This will not work, next year domestic soybeans can only reach 35% of the share, more than 65% of our soybeans still need to rely on the international market." ”

Liu Qinghe, who had been silent, suddenly squinted and said, "That's fine." ”

"Lao Liu, what do you have in mind?" Jin Yang hurriedly asked.

Turning on the computer, lines of text appeared on the projection screen, looking at these plans, Jin Yang and Hu Yue both felt a little cold sweat.

"Wouldn't it be ...... to do that?"

Liu Qinghe clenched his fists fiercely and said: "Anyway, these are foreign-funded enterprises, if you want to blame them, they are in the wrong place." ”

Jin Yang and Hu Yue glanced at each other and made up their minds.

Huanong Group acted quickly to merge and integrate some oil extraction enterprises within the system, and established three wholly-owned subsidiaries: Heijiang Edible Oil, Ranch New Oil, and Jiangnan New Oil.

On the one hand, we will rapidly expand the soybean planting area, increasing the total soybean output to 24 million tons this year and 50 million tons next year.

On the other hand, to establish a diversified edible oil variety, in addition to soybean oil in vegetable oil, it is also necessary to increase the proportion of rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, peanut oil, and flaxseed oil.

Animal oil, which is rarely used in China, should also be included in the overall overall plan, such as butter, lard, sheep fat, poultry fat, etc.

In this way, the proportion of soybean oil in the domestic edible oil market is depressed.

At present, in the domestic edible oil market, the consumption share of soybean oil is 41%, followed by palm oil 22%, rapeseed oil 21%, and other edible oils account for 16%.

Among them, 95% of soybean oil is pressed by imported soybeans, and palm oil is 100% imported, because palm is a tropical plant.

In Huanong Group's plan, it is expected to increase the proportion of animal oil to 20%, reduce the proportion of soybean oil to less than 25%, and increase the proportion of peanut oil, sunflower oil and flaxseed oil.

Diversifying edible oils as much as possible and preventing the proportion of a single variety from exceeding 20% can effectively stifle the structural crisis.

Especially the traditional Chinese lard, now the Chinese people rarely use lard, and the fat in the pork, many people do not like it.

Huanong Group simply directly purchased the lard and those fatty meats from the meat factory, and carried out secondary deep processing to turn them into lard similar to butter.

The multi-pronged suppression of the edible oil market can also effectively balance the market proportion of various edible oils, and this will lead to the end of some oil extraction companies.

Huanong Group has prepared a merger and acquisition plan, focusing on killing foreign companies such as goldfish oil first, and then injecting capital into those domestic oil extraction companies.

As for the soybean producers in the United States to raise prices, let them mention, Huanong Group just took this opportunity to fight a price war and overturn those foreign-funded oil extraction enterprises.

With its own agricultural production base, rapidly expanding rural cooperatives, and large and cheap electricity, Huanong Group does not believe that these gringos can be defeated.

Of course, the plan was not to be completed all at once, but was divided into five plans.