【 High operating rate 】 This year's spring plowing and fertilizer preparation began in an orderly manner 】
Although it is the winter farming season, in order to ensure the smooth development of spring sowing and cultivation work, various places have entered a critical period of fertilizer storage, production and distribution.

How is the overall supply of fertilizer for spring ploughing in China this year? What progress has been made in the situation of winter reserve fertilizer? Let's look at the report.

The reporter learned from the China Agricultural Materials Circulation Association of the All-China General Supply and Marketing Cooperation Agency that in 2023, due to the sufficient supply of raw materials for fertilizer production, China's fertilizer production has increased over the same period last year. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, from January to November 2023, China's fertilizer production was 52.243 million tons, an increase of 5.0%. At present, more than 200 nitrogen fertilizer production enterprises, more than 60 phosphate fertilizer production enterprises and potash backbone production enterprises located in Qinghai and Xinjiang are running at full speed.

From the specific situation, nearly 70% of urea production enterprises, more than half of ammonium phosphate production enterprises have started, and the operating rate of potash backbone enterprises has reached 100%, full load production, and fully ensure the demand for fertilizer for spring farming.
[Long Wen, Director of the Agricultural Materials and Cotton Bureau of the All-China Supply and Marketing Cooperative Society] During the spring ploughing period this year, the total supply of chemical fertilizers is relatively sufficient, and the chemical fertilizer guarantee has a good foundation.

At present, the local supply and marketing cooperatives play the role of special classes for agricultural supplies and supply work, guide the system of agricultural supplies enterprises to find out the changes in the demand for fertilizer and medicine for spring farming, purchase marketable sources of goods, expand the procurement channels of fertilizer, accelerate the procurement and reserve progress, and do a good job in cross-regional transportation to ensure that various fertilizer products are stored in place before spring farming.
[Long Wen, Director of the Agricultural Materials and Cotton and Linen Bureau of the All-China Supply and Marketing Cooperative Society] The agricultural materials enterprise of the supply and marketing cooperative Society has carried out production and marketing cooperation with 72 key production enterprises, and plans to build and transform about 100 national strategic agricultural materials reserve repositories, about 1,000 county agricultural materials distribution centers, and 600 county-level agricultural materials enterprises in the next five years.

It is understood that the national supply and marketing cooperative system has undertaken about 45% of the national fertilizer commercial reserves and nearly 80% of the provincial fertilizer reserves, and currently carries out fertilizer preparation in an orderly manner according to the production schedule requirements, and plays the role of "reservoir" and "ballast stone" in ensuring the stability of the fertilizer market.

【 Production, stock and transport acceleration of fertilizer reserves are advancing steadily 】
Workshop busy production, warehouse busy stock, enterprise production and sales. This is what the reporter saw on his travels. In order to prepare for the fertilizer, all places are running at full speed to speed up production and distribution.
Despite the cold weather, when the reporter came to the Liyuan terminal of the Bengbu section of the Huaihe River, he saw that the workers here were still busy, from early morning to late afternoon, a truckload of fertilizer raw material freight packages were quickly loaded and unloaded and transported to the production enterprises.

[Wu Anchang, Deputy general manager of Anhui Huilong Group Wuhe Ecological Fertilizer Co., LTD.] Now the port is operating 1000 tons of potassium chloride we transported from Nanjing Port, and there are 4000 tons of ammonium chloride to the port to be unloaded, both of which are the two main raw materials for the production of our compound fertilizer.
According to statistics, the total annual demand for urea in Anhui market is about 3.1 million tons, and the demand during spring cultivation accounts for about 30% of the whole year. Since October last year, Anhui's largest agricultural production and reserve enterprise Huilong Group has transferred more than 500,000 tons of urea to Anhui Province, and the fertilizer reserve tasks undertaken in Anhui, Jiangsu, Jilin and other places are steadily advancing.

[Ye Chun, Deputy general manager of Anhui Huilong Group Agricultural Materials Chain Co., LTD.] The logistics cost saved by shipping in this way is about 60 yuan/ton. Through the optimization of logistics methods, we not only greatly improve our shipping efficiency, but also further reduce logistics costs.
In Yunnan Tian 'an Chemical Co., LTD., a national key fertilizer guarantee enterprise, major fertilizer varieties such as mono-ammonium phosphate and diammonium phosphate are being produced, and 6,500 tons of fertilizer are coming off the production line every day. Unlike in the past, this year and the workers have a new partner, the 14 water packaging line of robots in front of the fertilizer plant is the "new employees."

[Li Qinglu, Director of Yantian Chemical Phosphate Fertilizer Manufacturing Center] Each packaging line has about 10 bags of fertilizer down the line every minute, and the daily packaging volume is about 6,500 tons. In addition to bagged fertilizers, we also have large quantities of bulk fertilizers that are filled and shipped by train.
Yunnan is one of the main production areas of phosphate fertilizer in China, China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. 24 hours non-stop loading and unloading, to ensure that fertilizer to a batch of transport a batch. From November 8, 2023 to January 14, 2024, more than 25,000 vehicles and 1.54 million tons of spring ploughing materials such as fertilizers, seeds and pesticides have been transported, an increase of 4.8% over the same period last year.


[National fertilizer reserve sinking service opens up the "last kilometer" of agricultural supplies]
In accordance with the unified deployment of the state, the supply and marketing cooperative system has set up a national fertilizer reserve in 23 provinces across the country. How to supply the reserve fertilizer uniformly? The reporter went into the national repository to visit.
Entering the Hebei Cangzhou National Fertilizer Reserve of China Agricultural Group, a subsidiary of China Supply and Marketing Group, the special line of agricultural materials here is in orderly operation. At this time, more than a dozen railcar loads of fertilizer are coming into storage every day, and workers are moving bags of fertilizer from the railcars to pallets, which are then transported by forklift trucks to the storage.

[Meng Shilai, head of Cangzhou Company of China Agricultural Group] After the reserve of nitrogen fertilizer, phosphate fertilizer and compound fertilizer, the fertilizer has now reached more than 30,000 tons, and the next will arrive, and the reserve can fully protect the agricultural needs of the surrounding agricultural areas during the spring farming period.
The reporter noted that this reserve is close to the 104 National Highway and Beijing-Shanghai Railway, 90 kilometers from Huanghua Port, 120 kilometers from Tianjin, and the surrounding expressways are extending in all directions. In order to meet the needs of spring fertilizer, they planned in advance, arranged human and material resources, and made plans. When the reporter was interviewing, he just met the driver Li Zairan who had just returned from the port of Qingdao to transport fertilizer.

[Truck driver Li Zairan, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province] loaded from the port of Qingdao, and then loaded out overnight last night, ran for more than 12 hours, this is not just now. The road is not easy, for our farmer to farm, the fertilizer is delivered in time.
At the same time of fertilizer transportation, sinking services are also actively prepared. The storage warehouse has set up storage points in Renqiu, Botou and Wuqiao in Cangzhou, and built a distribution network covering more than 160 counties, townships and villages to provide guarantee for the reserve, transportation and supply of agricultural materials in important agricultural times. The reporter followed a transport vehicle to one of the storage points - Renqiu City Liangzhao Town fertilizer reserve point.

[Liangzhao Town agricultural materials dealer Gao Fei, Renqiu City, Cangzhou, Hebei Province] The daily delivery volume is two to three cars, and now is the first time to send this fertilizer to large farmers and farmers in a timely manner to ensure spring farming.

[Agricultural technology waiter Yu Runchang of ZhongNong Group] and the city (Renqiu City) more than 30 agricultural supplies business service outlets to carry out "village to store to household" service, open up the supply of agricultural supplies "the last kilometer".

In order to ensure the agricultural production needs of spring ploughing this year, as the country's largest fertilizer supply and reserve enterprise, Zhongrural Group has opened winter storage of fertilizer from late October 2023, and has purchased and stored nearly 4 million tons of fertilizer in storage points set up in 18 provinces and regions across the country. While strengthening reserves, we will use online classes and online lectures to carry out scientific and technological training, advocate green and scientific fertilizer use, and make a good start and start a good step for the new season's grain production.