East China’s Jiangsu province has made every possible effort to ensure the provision of daily necessities for the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus epidemic that has claimed 1524 lives and infected 66,577 on the Chinese mainland.
Regional authorities have been urged to attach importance to the epidemic prevention and control in the rural areas so as to ensure the supply of necessities such as grain, cooking oil, poultry, egg and vegetable, the statement said.
Yangzhou Pinchun Food Co., Ltd. makes quick-frozen buns. Affected by the epidemic, the company has encountered problems such as slow return of funds and rising prices of raw materials when it resumed production after the spring festival holiday, said Ye Feng, Vice Chairman of its board of directors.
Yangzhou has introduced twelve new policies to increase funding support and reduce taxes and exemptions to support the orderly resumption of production by new-type agricultural players so as to guarantee the supply and stabilize prices of agricultural products. At present, more than 60 agricultural enterprises have resumed work in Yangzhou.
Authorities in Suzhou have organized vegetable growers, farming cooperatives and agricultural enterprises to supply fresh vegetables to online sales platforms.
At Suzhou Taihu Oasis Modern Agriculture Base, Wu Fenrong, manager of a township investment department of Wujiang Post, was seen organizing the employees to load the freshly picked fresh vegetables onto a truck. These vegetables of nearly ten varieties will be sold at 8 yuan per kilo in downtown Suzhou.
The financial department of Suzhou City will grant a one-time subsidy of 50,000 yuan, 100,000 yuan, and 200,000 yuan to the new type of agricultural business players with online sales income of 1 million yuan, 3 million yuan and 5 million yuan during the epidemic prevention and control.
Authorities in Suqian have issued preferential policies to solve the worries for Jiangsu Nongken Rice Industry Group Suqian Co., Ltd. General Manager Shi Yunhui said: "The preferential policies have greatly helped our company. For example, the Transportation Bureau has provided convenience for our logistics. The government of the Party Committee of Daxing Town assisted us in purchasing masks. The state taxation authority has reduced our taxes. The power supply department has lowered the electricity price. These measures have helped to promote our company’s further development.
Jiangsu Nongken Group has gone all out to meet the daily needs of the people during the epidemic in spite of the insufficient supplies and lack of manpower.
Suken Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. has strived for a balance between epidemic prevention and spring farming by prepaaing seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural materials in advance.
Rice companies under Jiangsu Nongken Group have raced against time to ensure production at full capacity and supply more than 9,000 tons of rice and more than 20,000 boxes of cooking oil, making positive contributions to ensuring food security and market supply stability. Suken Malt Company has supplied more than 9,200 tons of high-quality malt to the market since the start of the spring festival holiday.
