In the fertilizer market, the sales of compound fertilizers have always competed, but various single fertilizers, especially urea, have become a widespread phenomenon. The reason is mainly because there are too many fake fertilizers and they are hard to prevent. When farmers use fake fertilizers, what they delay is a one-year harvest. They cannot afford to lose.
So, why is the current fake compound fertilizer banned?
The first is the temptation to make profits. Thanks to the national “three rural†policy and international fertilizer production, most of them use oil and natural gas as raw materials. Nitrogen, which is mainly produced from coal as raw material in China, has the advantage of being in a good position for a few years. In the market, no matter what fertilizer sales are very popular. High-substrate, high-nutrient compound fertilizers have reached a price of about 2,000 yuan per ton. In the past, they were called “sunny spring snow†by farmers and rarely paid attention. Now they are in short supply. However, no matter which kind of compound fertilizer is made of other chemical fertilizers, the price of compound fertilizers has gone up, and the prices of matrix fertilizers such as urea, ammonium phosphate, potash, etc. used in the production of compound fertilizers are also rising. If the normal procurement, processing, profit margins have become smaller and smaller. In this case, those who are quick-money and quick-money earn falsehood in order to obtain more than 60% or even 100% of profits. What they are pursuing is only a package of some brand-name compound fertilizers, some may contain only a little nutrients, some even contain little nutrients, and they are completely bought and sold by the pit people. Due to excessive application in the past years, the effect of fertilizer production has been greatly worse than before, and after a large number of pseudo-fertilizers are used, the effect of reducing production is not obvious, so some counterfeiters do not have “exposed fillingsâ€, making pseudo-fertilizers popular in some areas.
The second is lax enforcement. The production of compound fertilizers needs to be qualified, and the products produced need to be inspected and inspected, at least on a regular or irregular basis. However, unfortunately, a small number of quality inspections and industrial and commercial departments lacked due attention to relevant laws and regulations, and implemented too many “mutations†during implementation—some people who did not possess minimum qualifications also entered the threshold of compound fertilizers. Equipment, factories are all substandard, can not do anything else? In addition to the usual inspections and poor monitoring, the investigation has exalted the high hand because of the relationship, and it should not be investigated indiscriminately, making everyone in the market vulnerable, confused and difficult to distinguish between true and false, thus providing the market for counterfeit goods. Take the opportunity.
Third, the backbone enterprises are weak. The increasing sales of compound fertilizers and their increasing market share in the fertilizer market are an important indicator of the modernization of the agriculture and fertilizer industries. The composite rate of chemical fertilizers in developed countries has reached more than 70%, and we have less than 1/3. At present, farmers have already had a certain demand for this, but the main conditions for the compound fertilizer of the main body have not yet formed. For example, in China's fertilizer industry, no matter whether it is nitrogen fertilizer or phosphate fertilizer, it has basically formed a main enterprise, and there are several decent large-scale nitrogen fertilizer companies in any area. Such enterprises have established products and ensured their quality. They have long gained the trust of farmers, formed a relatively fixed customer base, and have no place for fake fertilizer. However, compound fertilizer is not enough. Among them, although there are also famous brands such as Sacofo, Hongri, and Lvyuan, because their market is too large, several brand names cannot support the country's "countryside." Now, the best way is to organize the nation's nitrogen fertilizer companies and let them produce compound fertilizers. These companies have the advantages of qualification, credibility, and talent, and they also have their own nitrogen fertilizer as a substrate fertilizer. It is much easier to produce compound fertilizers than to build new compound fertilizer plants. In this way, once the main bodies of the national compound fertilizer company become strong, those small factories that rely on fraud to make a living will not be able to afford a great deal of trouble. Unfortunately, nitrogen fertilizer products are now "the emperor's daughter does not marry", although it is easy to make compound fertilizer, but after all it is a new product, but there are a lot of agrochemical service work to do, it is better to do a single product and save trouble. Although the CEOs of companies also know that it is smart to take precautions and take the initiative, but it is probably more important to focus on getting the compound fertilizer. I am afraid there is still some way to go.
The other is that the seller and the market are still immature. Not long ago, the reporter once visited Shanghe County of Shandong Province and Zhangzhou City of Hebei Province. The former is home to the country's famous garlic. Due to the relatively high income, farmers are willing to invest in fertilization and buy fertilizer only to identify famous brands or products they have used. Through years of service and exchanges, manufacturers, distributors and farmers of compound fertilizers have already formed the “I sell fertilizers, you increase productionâ€. Everyone has a profitable space of mutual trust and dependence. In the agricultural capital market, competition is the effectiveness of agrochemical services and chemical fertilizer application, and whether the public recognizes the brand, and there are basically no fake products. In Cangzhou, Hebei Province, because most of the farmer's crops are food crops, the income is much lower than that of the cash crops. When fertilizing, they are fairly accounted for. The main premise of the choice is not the fertilizer effect but the price, so that the artificial fertilizer will flourish, not only in the fields. The tourists in the land sell fakes, and some of the fixed stalls also sell fakes. They only differ in the degree of falsehood. Some may not even have a certain amount of nutrients, and some contain some nutrients but they are definitely not up to standard.
The prohibition of the manufacture and sale of fake fertilizers (mainly fake compound fertilizers) is a major event throughout the country. Only when the fake fertilizer is expelled from the market can the real fertilizer be popular. This needs to be strictly enforced by law enforcement agencies, and it also needs to be awakened, involved, and worked together with chemical fertilizer production and sales companies and farmers. (Fan Tian)