The underlying cause of supply and demand is the continued rise in sugar prices

Experts warned that sugar prices rose, some businesses in order to reduce production costs, the use of relatively inexpensive chemical sweeteners to replace sugar, will endanger the health of the vast number of consumers. Since May 2010, the international sugar price shocks upward. After the national day is higher all the way, October 11, Guangxi around the market, sugar prices generally reached 6000 yuan/ton. October 25 reporter Wired Guangxi Sugar Association director of Agricultural Light to understand that the market in Guangxi all over the white sugar price generally reached 6800 yuan/ton.　　According to the Guangxi Sugar NET data show, to 27th, Liuzhou middleman quotes 7300 yuan/ton, Nanning Big group quoted 7250 Yuan/ton.　　Half a month of time, sugar price straight up, repeatedly refresh our sugar prices in the latest record. Supply and demand relationship is the root cause of sugar price rise. Supply and demand relationship is an important factor affecting sugar price. 2007, Guangxi sugar cane planting area of 14.53 million Mu, 2007/2008-year squeeze factory raw material cane 76.88 million tons, average yield 5.3 tons/mu, 9.41 million tons of sugar production, a record high, sugar production accounted for the national total production of 63%. Since then, due to years of frozen, drought and other natural disasters, sugarcane continued to reduce production, 2009/2010-year squeeze factory raw material cane only 55.45 million tons, yields 3.75 tons/MU, 7.1 million tons of sugar production.　　Last winter and this spring continuous severe drought, the number of sugarcane seedlings and plant high affected by a sharp decline in sugarcane production, the direct impact of this year's sugar production, which is one of the main reasons for the soaring sugar prices. The loss of rural labor force is also a factor affecting the rise of sugar prices. Because of the small profits of sugarcane cultivation, most of the young workers have opted to work in developed cities such as the southeast coast to subsidize their homes, and the countryside has become the home for the left-behind and the children. The planting area and yield of sugarcane decreased. Farmers believe that the current increase in sugar prices within the reasonable range. He said: "In the past a catty of sugar equals four kg of rice, a catty of meat." "Now the price of rice is generally 2 yuan/kg, sugar is at most 3.5 yuan/kg, and meat prices are not the same." "Sugar production through planting, processing, circulation, sold to 3 yuan more than a catty, it should be." "The production of small-scale peasant economy requires labor-intensive, which not only increases the cost of the development of sugar industry, but also inhibits the production of sugar industry." Rural Light told reporters: "Guangxi sugar and sugar developed countries, the biggest gap is the sugar production mechanization is very low." In addition to 30% of the sugarcane area in Guangxi, which uses deep pine, the rest of the operation relies on manpower and animal power, especially the sugarcane harvesting machinery, which consumes a lot of labor, has no substantial breakthrough, resulting in low productivity of sugarcane and high production cost, which is higher than that of sugar production in Guangxi, The main reason for sugar-producing countries such as Thailand and Australia.　　Owing to the low income of sugar people and the influx of rural labor force into the city, the contradiction of labor shortage of sugarcane is intensified. The international sugar situation is also not optimistic, the world's second sugar-producing countries in Thailand, the "sugar shortage" phenomenon has not directly affected China's sugar industry, but to our concern about the development of the sugar industry has brought panic. Brazil's continuous rains also hit sugar production. It is a foregone conclusion that import sugar prices are higher.　　Guangxi Sugar Online data show that the Thai import estimate of 8652.34 yuan/ton, Brazil imports estimated 7987.82 yuan/ton. The state to put reserves of sugar, sugar prices have not been more and more high sugar prices continue to rise, has aroused the attention of the relevant departments, the relevant departments in the last squeeze season has been a series of 8 batches of reserves of sugar, but there has been a higher sugar prices go "strange phenomenon." This also includes the impact of hot money into the sugar market. Since the property market strong regulation, the withdrawal from the property market most of the money into the agricultural market.　　Following the network new words "Beans you play" "Garlic you Ruthless" "spicy" "Ginger Your Army", "Sugar Gao Zong" and "Sugar Xuan Zong" turned out, quickly aroused widespread concern. Guangxi sugar Industry, a person who declined to be named, said sugar prices rose with the speculation about the business and the hot money. Hot money into the sugar market, more help push the sugar price rise. Now the manufacturers have no rich sugar, most of the sugar in the hands of merchants. China's sugar consumption is about 1 million tonnes per month, and the Treasury's sugar is not enough to cover supply and demand.　　These are important factors that lead to a rise in sugar prices. "The rise in sugar prices in Guangxi is beneficial to farmers, manufacturers and local finance," the person said. The price of sugar should not be combated as long as it is in a reasonable range. Now more than 7,000 tons of sugar per ton, for other agricultural products and agricultural processing industry is not expensive. But the supply and demand gap has given rise to sugar, and rising prices have given sugar a chance to rise.　　He told reporters that if the price of sugar rose too fast to deviate from the law of value, Guangxi also has the responsibility and the obligation to cooperate with the state to regulate the market well.　　Sugar prices higher, downstream products, pressure, high sugar prices continue to rise in the downstream products bring greater pressure. Rising sugar prices have increased the cost of downstream products, and some downstream products have already responded. The first to take direct price measures is the white sugar.　　Major supermarkets are reflected in the first to receive the sugar price notice. Because the fluctuation of the sugar price is quicker, to the merchant also brought the bigger trouble. Guangxi Nancheng department store supermarket staff told reporters: "Sugar price fluctuations too fast, manufacturers have been unable to price, the morning of the prices list, to the afternoon to change." "Some industries spit out the bitter, nanning, a pastry manufacturer told reporters:" Because of the competitive pressure, the price of pastry does not rise, and this one weeks, sugar from 310 yuan/hundred pounds quickly up to 370 yuan/hundred pounds, each purchase of sugar can only buy a ton, do not know the price of sugar will fall back. Now the new squeeze season is coming soon, I hope the price of sugar can be stable. "Reporters in Wal-Mart supermarket, 454 grams of bagged sugar price of 4.8 yuan, 454 grams of bagged sugar price is 3.9 yuan-5.6 yuan."　　The packing not only changed the weight, but also the price increased. Farmers in the interview reminded that sugar prices rose, some businesses in order to reduce production costs, willReplace sugar with a relatively inexpensive chemical sweetener. The high efficiency sweetness of chemical sweeteners allows businesses to gain immediate benefits while at the same time endangering the health of the vast majority of consumers.