Small agricultural farmers face big supermarkets super-docking calls for equal dialogue

 Commerce Department official said, But reporters found that

experts believe that agricultural products have a modern supermarket industry downstream, and upstream farmers and cooperatives still in the initial stage, the agricultural supply chain in the asymmetric position of the parties is to generate the root cause of many problems.

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Harbin, mainly engaged in the emerging vegetable processing vegetables, soybeans, soybean oil and other agricultural products procurement, processing and distribution. In 2008, the company began to try to

Hui said that some large supermarkets, the higher the threshold into the store. Unless the local scale, well-known are larger, would be difficult to have access to large supermarkets. Presence of large supermarkets agricultural investment, the high point deduction, reimbursement cycle is long, with often need to engage with the supermarkets, all kinds of specials, promotions and other activities, do not even lose money.

It is understood that transfers of large supermarkets have a fixed period, the supplier of agricultural products sometimes need one or two months to receive payment, cooperatives and small farmers is difficult to accept. Hui pointed out that the harsh conditions of individual large supermarket chains, cash cycle is too long, and sometimes even to impose various fees that his company had to withdraw from such a supermarket.

encountered similar trouble there Harbin catapulted features fruit and vegetable cooperatives. According to co-head of Zheng Liansheng introduction, the supermarket on the quality of agricultural products, equivalent to sell high demand aspects, and supermarket sales, not based on quantity and co-closing purchase and sale of the losses generated in the process shall be borne by the supplier. Such as cooperatives sold to supermarket vegetables is 130 pounds, but due to loss of the middle and eventually sold the supermarket may be only 100 kg of vegetables. Displayed on supermarket sales of the book and co-operative difference between the larger shipments sometimes, the difference can only be co-operative

Harbin, general manager of a large supermarket chain, told this reporter that the supermarket was introduced from 2010, agricultural products, farmers planted according to supermarket requirements, quality and supply of agricultural products has been guaranteed. However, during operation there have some problems, not the vegetables, quality standards, that is, supply is not timely, or intermediate stock, which is very anxious to the supermarket.