The price of temporary storage rice is not only higher than the minimum purchase price of various grain varieties announced by the state in the first half of the year, but also slightly higher than the current market price. Some varieties publicly announced the purchase of reserves for the first time, and the intention of supporting the market was quite obvious. The purchase of early rice staged the "last madness" of this grain bull market, and the purchase price reached a record high of 100 yuan/100 Jin. But the subsequent acquisition of mid-late rice is the opposite. All parties entered the market cautiously and the price was low. In some places in Jiangxi Province, the purchase price of mid-late rice is even lower than that of early rice, and the price of early and late rice is "upside down". At the same time, soybeans, wheat, corn and so on. They have also entered the downward channel, and "it is difficult to sell grain" and "grain is cheap and hurts farmers" are on the verge. After China announced to raise the protection price, the grain market price responded positively. The soybean and corn futures prices of Dalian Commodity Exchange rose across the board, and the soybean market price in some areas has exceeded the national protective price.
Xiong, vice president of southern grain market, believes that the state's decision to implement temporary storage and raise the minimum purchase price of grain can serve multiple purposes: first, it has curbed the current downward trend of grain prices and prevented farmers from "selling grain"; Secondly, the temporary purchase price announced this time will be the phased bottom of various grain varieties in China market. Raising the price bottom line of China grain will make China grain bid farewell to the "low price era"; Third, the regulation of food prices has been given a new function of expanding domestic demand, which can expand the depressed rural consumption by increasing farmers' income. Although the national policy of supporting grain production has been continuously strengthened, on the whole, the incentive effect of policy subsidies on grain farmers is decreasing year by year. Affected by the rising prices of agricultural means of production and other factors, the real income per mu of grain in China from 2004 to 2006 was 382 yuan, 329 yuan and 320 yuan respectively, showing a downward trend year by year. Experts pointed out that the current food price formation mechanism in China. At present, the formation mechanism of grain price still adopts the combination of state regulation and market supply and demand, and the adjustment of grain protection price is not applicable to agricultural products and other industrial products, and the rise of grain price lags behind that of agricultural products and other industrial products.
The contradiction between the incomplete marketization of the grain price formation mechanism and the relative marketization of the price formation mechanism of agricultural materials, labor and other factors has led to a series of "new scissors difference" phenomena in the grain field of China:
First of all, the price difference between domestic agricultural materials and grain is getting bigger and bigger. The prices of agricultural materials such as fertilizers, pesticides and diesel oil have continued to rise sharply. Even with state subsidies to farmers, the prices of major grain varieties such as wheat, rice and corn are still rising slowly, and even in some grain-producing areas, food prices are falling instead of rising, making it difficult for farmers to sell grain. Secondly, the scissors gap between farmers' going out to work and their income from growing grain is gradually expanding. Affected by the shortage of labor market and the introduction of policies to protect the income of migrant workers by governments at all levels. At the same time, grain prices are still running at a low level, and grain production is also affected by natural disasters, market risks and other factors. Farmers' income from working is obviously higher than that from growing grain. Thirdly, the influence of "new scissors difference" on the adjustment of agricultural planting structure is manifested in the gradual expansion of the benefit difference between growing grain and planting cash crops. The appearance of the phenomenon of "new scissors difference" distorts the market transmission and adjustment function of grain prices, resulting in a large loss of "grain productivity" such as high-quality rural labor and land in China, and some major grain producing areas show signs that grain is cheap and hurts farmers, which has affected the national grain production safety from the source. Relevant experts believe that the key to solving the "new scissors gap" lies in narrowing the gap between the current grain market price and value, and should adjust the grain price slightly and periodically to make the grain price moderately return to a reasonable range.