The country will feed 1.42 million tonnes of food to drought-stricken areas

Xinhua Beijing March 25 to further enrich the southwest, northwest and other drought-stricken areas of food inventory, to ensure market supply and price stability, the state food sector will be in July to Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and Gansu and other drought areas to adjust grain 1.42 million tons. Reporter 25th from the state Food Bureau learned that according to the circular issued jointly by the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Grain Bureau, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Railways, agricultural distribution and COFCO, the second batch of national temporary storage and grain transfer 1.42 million tons in 2010 will be transferred to Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan,　　Drought-stricken areas such as Gansu. It is reported that in this 1.42 million tons of grain, the lowest purchase price of wheat 300,000 tons, the region for Henan, the lowest acquisition price of Indica Rice 540,000 tons, the region for Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, the state temporary storage of 580,000 tons of corn, the region for the Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang.　　The deadline for the country's temporary storage of food-for-provincial relocation plans is at the end of July 2010, with the aim of completing it before the main flood season arrives. The circular stressed that doing a good job of national temporary storage of grain across the province is an important measure to further strengthen macro-control of grain market and ensure food supply in drought area, and all the relevant departments should further raise their awareness, strengthen their leadership and carry out the work conscientiously. Related to the implementation of the situation and problems encountered in the work, to timely report the relevant State departments to resolve.