Barley and Beer in China

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You don't know where China is headed until you read where she's been, and what she's been planning for the past half dozen or so years.

So, I've translated information from a traditional Chinese website which maked for perfect reading on a minus thirty day on the Prairies.

I segmented it into thirteen posts, so it's a little easier to read. Parsley

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Malting Barley Industry Development of China's Five-Year Review


November 16, 2007

With regard to beer, China now has two in the world, one beer output, the second is a malting barley imports. 2006
In 2006, China imported 2.14 million tons of barley (the same year, imports of wheat, 615,000 tons), compared with last year decreased by 4 million tons, by 1.8%. g

Great report should be made to enhance the coordination of economic development.

Today, let us concern "small" beer barley industry, Review of its five-year journey to see if we can not form a consensus, so that high-quality malting barley, like China, like not only to replace imported wheat, but also to achieve export.

Malting barley may be the entire national point of view is a "marginal industries", but suitable areas peasants are concerned, it is both traditional industry is a core industry.

So, if we missed the previous five years, then we can not afford to miss the next 5 years.

Monument in short supply the world's barley wine

Barley has a short growth period, early maturity, high yield, stress resistance and strong adaptability and other characteristics, and also because of high nutritional value, both for human consumption, feed, brewing and other purposes, and thus in the developed countries or areas are the fastest growing in arid One of the grain. B

The last century, double the world growth of barley cultivation area and total production after wheat, rice, corn, ranking fourth.Cultivated in all parts of China, but the area is gradually declining As the market demand and technological advances, barley acreage will be restored.

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"Tenth Five-Year" period, China's annual barley beer volume of 1.924 million tons of imports, market share, an average of 61.9%.

In fact, from August 2000, the International Malting Barley enters the price boom, and the momentum has yet to be reduced, due to natural calamities, tight supply.

The world's supplier of malting barley are mainly four ©U Australia, Canada, France and Denmark

China's purchase accounting for half of total world trade volume

However, due to drought, high temperatures, resulting in the global barley market supply and demand balance has been broken repeatedly.

Australian production of 2002/2003 over the previous year decreased by about 50 percent, leaving only 900,000 tons of barley can be exported to world markets

Europe 2003/2004 crop yields decline, the French winter wheat yields by 30% in spring barley due to protein content exceeding 25% of the barley turn into a feed barley.

To the 2006/2007 year, the Australian Barley production increased from 9.9 million tons last year's sharp decline to 370 million tons.

This year, the country's export of barley in the three countries in East Asia the total number was 35 million tons.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture statistics, 1 ~ May, China's barley imports only 49 million tons, down 51

This year, international malting barley prices rose more than 50 percent, up more than 300 U.S. dollars per ton.

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#3
Until 2002, China's beer industry used to import barley 70%, to 2006, domestic barley for beer to reach 2.49 million tons of raw materials, accounting for 53.8% market share

After the series of mergers and acquisitions, expansion, China's beer industry has for many years to maintain 15% of the high-speed development

Thus, the domestic beer industry must accept the fact that barley prices.

This time import barley prices, so that domestic beer production costs surge.

Compared with the same period last year, beer price hikes of raw materials to make a ton of beer production costs about 20%.

The malting barley in beer production cost share of 30% ~ 40%.
Forecast, because of supply shortages, price exceedingly high, this year China's barley imports are likely to fall below 1 million tons, while barley is usually the domestic beer industry, the demand of 400 million tons.

Such a big gap to make up only by domestic barley.

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#4
Facts have proved that all the forecasts are accurate

With the tight supply of imports, prices, beer companies started manufacturing base in the domestic cultivation.

According to the China Alcoholic Drinks Industry Association Beer Branch chairman Xiao Derun introduced five years, China's raw material base for the development of a number of barley up, but the yield and quality of instability, thus resulting in a company to buy the prices.

Jinchang City, Gansu Province enjoys a purchase price of barley beer each year, Jin reached 0.72 yuan to 0.75 yuan, up by about 10%.

In the northern Jiangsu area, high-quality beer barley door manufacturers purchase price has gone up over last year 200 yuan to 300 yuan / ton, and in short supply.Quite a few better-quality malting barley has not yet listed on the purchase of the factory orders in advance.

Barley Crop Science Society of Professional Committee of China, Deputy Secretary-General, Beijing Agricultural College, Professor Bai Puyi introduced last year in the last 20 years, China's large enterprises and large-scale Malting Group's purchase of domestic beer, barley beer, a single year.

Data show that in 2007, China's beer barley cultivation area of nearly 1000 hectares, beer barley production at 2.2 million tons to 230 million tons.
By the end of May this year, the Chinese Liquor Industry Association Beer Branch convened by the industry giant, beer, raw materials of the General Assembly held in Gansu.

Was to promote beer giant, the main producing region with the signing of sales contracts.

Positive action to promote the development of various sectors
Barley grown in China are widely distributed geographically
Naked barley areas to eat mainly the Yangtze River areas to feed mainly spring wheat areas to the northwest with the main beer.

Thus, scientifically clarify the complex differences between the natural and economic conditions, the impact of growth and development of barley and correctly classified and distribution of ecological zones of China's barley, barley cultivation on the development of China's division, the election of barley to build a good base, increase the multiple crop index and cultivation technical level, are of great significance.

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#5
Since 2002, the development of domestic malting barley production scale and to establish a stable base for high quality voice becoming stronger.

April 2003, organized by the Division of Agriculture farm management experts in the extensive investigation and research, based on the preparation of this "Chinese malting barley production and development plan."

In July 2003 by the Crop Science Society of China, Barley Industry Professional Committee, Jiangsu Jiangdu Hin Industry Group Co., Ltd., Beijing, 9 sources uniformly Mai Co., Ltd., Heilongjiang, the Great Northern Wilderness Group Co., Ltd. undertaken Hongxinglong kinds of industrialization and malting barley Malt Brand Development Strategy Seminar "held in Dalian
Reached at the meeting of China's beer industry has to be sustained and healthy development, we must realize industrialization Malting Barley consensus.

Former Vice Minister of Agriculture, Crop Science Society of China, Lu Ming, chairman made a presentation entitled, "Beer Barley production is the beer industry's first production workshop" report.

Representatives from the main producing areas call for the Government to give the necessary malting barley industry, policy and financial support, will be malting barley and rice, wheat, corn, soybeans and other major crops, non-discriminatory, cancel barley railway transportation funds, accelerate the formulation and implementation of "China's beer Barley production and development planning ", construction, high-quality beer barley production bases in China.

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#6
August 4, 2004, from the Ministry of Agriculture crop farming and animal husbandry Management Division and hosted by the Office of Gansu Province, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Contractors, Agriculture Center, in association with high-quality "Chinese malting barley production and development plan (draft) expert panel discussion will be Beer raw materials producers-cum-Development Forum "held in Lanzhou City.
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he meeting was China's beer raw materials to produce the largest ever at an industry conference.

The meeting held that "planning" a clear idea of the layout program science, construction projects, practical, policy proposals are justified, after several years of efforts to implement China's beer production of raw materials, there will be a great development.

And in the formation of a consensus on the following aspects, "The Plan" the implementation of the operation should be matched with industry, it is recommended to set up industry organizations to protect farmers and the interests of both malt-processing industry.

The participants hope that this conference should become the raw materials of China's beer production development milestones, to demonstrate and implement the "Planning" as an opportunity as soon as possible China's beer production and market supply of raw materials situation.

There were media reports, "The" Chinese malting barley production and development planning "forthcoming."
But for various reasons, "planning" has not yet issued

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#7
To July 10, 2006, from the Ministry of Agriculture quality agricultural development services center and Harbin Long Ken Malt Co., Ltd., Beijing Yanjing Brewery Co., Ltd. in Harbin and other units jointly organized the "National Beer Industry Development Forum of raw materials."

The forum follows the meeting in Lanzhou in August 2004 approved by the Ministry of Agriculture held a second meeting malting barley

Ministry of Agriculture, responsible comrades concerned will be a speech that the Chinese beer and beer barley production is mainly due to industrial development is incompatible caused by various factors, both the state administrative department in charge of the development of malting barley production level of priority factors, but also In recent years, rapid development with beer beer industry is lagging behind the reasons for raw materials.

This will require management, scientific research, production and business work together.

Government departments, the overall development of the national economy from the perspective of promoting the development of the production of beer barley, first of all to mobilize the power of scientific research departments do a good job breeding and production division; Second, we must in the production of suitable areas to expand and stabilize malting barley acreage; third Malting business advantages to play, develop and nurture an intermediary organization, the implementation of orders for production.

Remarks on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture, published in the next day followed by another meeting on malting barley.

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#8
July 11, 2006 ~ 12, from the totem of the Far East Limited Company, Buhler Equipment Engineering (Wuxi) Company Limited, Beijing Century Rural Power Technology Development Co., Ltd. (beer industry information network) hosted "2006 (Fourth ) The global malting barley market analysis seminar "in Beijing Central Garden Hotel, the successful conclusion.

This meeting is "beer industry information network" since 2003, hosting the fourth global malting barley in professional meetings.

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#9
2007 "(Fifth) of raw materials in China Beer Market Analysis Seminar" held as scheduled.

Take note of the name from the previous "global malting barley market" changed to "China's beer market, raw materials," the
This is the development, which is China's malting barley industry development opportunities.

Of course, if beer barley production remains unchanged, enterprises have to prepare because they have already begun to explore how to reduce raw material costs, and even how to develop and find barley substitutes such as wheat, barley and so on.
Supply base construction was speeded up

Brewing premium beer, there must be high quality to produce high quality barley malt.

The standards of quality malting barley high purity, grain weight big hull is thin, less coloration and shiny, moderate protein content (9% -12%), leaching rate is higher than 78%, the germination rate is higher than 90% and so on.

If you rely on imports of barley, not only increases the risk of foreign exchange expenditure and also difficult to enhance its competitiveness on the international market, it urgently requires the establishment of high-quality beer barley dedicated production base.

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One other thing to watch for in China is their ability to export malt. Haven't read all translation Parsley but will note that China is an becoming experts at reducing amount of malt barley in beer even to the point of having near beers with no malt. At least some are concerned China will buy Canadian/Aussie/EU malt barley, malt it with world class malting plants and sell into traditional Canadian malt markets like Japan. Why having visible pricing into markets like China is critical so we don't inadvertently undercut our own domestic malt plants customer base. Putting it another, no special deals to China.

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Vewry astute, cahrliep, which is essentially why I am posting this.

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#10
Five years, China's beer barley production development did not stop.

It is learned that the National Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture are arranged in a number of research projects of beer barley breeding research funding.

Some advantages in areas of local government, issued a support malting barley industry development policy so that some areas of the industrial advantages initially appear, in order to ease our tension between supply and demand of raw materials of beer to make a contribution.

Gansu Province, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang reclamation area is rapidly becoming the eastern and central supply base for a large beer companies.

As a direct raw material of beer but not beer barley malt, these supply bases in the development of malting barley production also rise building boom of the malt.

Gansu Province in 2004, production capacity of more than 450 thousand tons of malt can be eaten in the province produced 550,000 tons of beer barley, higher than the province's annual output

There are about 132 of China's malt, concentrated in Harbin, Dalian and Beijing-Chengde Qin region, Jiangyin, Ningbo, Guangzhou and Hexi Region, Gansu Province

At present, China's malt production capacity has reached more than 4.8 million tons more than the actual needs of more than 170 million tons.

The construction of malt to form a leader in the growing areas leading role.

Spring malting barley production in the Northwest this year, ranking first in the country, up to 800 thousand tons to 85 million tons, accounting for about 39% total 41

But production falls short.

The key is the origin of some industrial operation mechanism is not established.

Ningxia beer barley production has developed rapidly in this area will not only meet the market demand, and sold outside the region, forming a stable base for planting

Because malting barley is a highly efficient water-saving crops (wheat, water-saving than 70%), some farms have been planted for many years, in 2004 Zongchandadao 5,000 tons.

In recent years, only "Western Xia beer" beer per year would require 15 thousand tons of barley, 2 / 3 needs to Gansu to buy.

In 2003, Beijing Yanjing Beer Group, Hebei Qinhuangdao Light Gold Mai Industrial Co., Ltd. (malt), Omer Baoding Bada Mai Nha Co., Ltd. and other enterprises in Ningxia have to contact the procurement, the results of supply shortages, not delivered.

Grasped the opportunities for development in Gansu.

After years of development, Gansu beer barley production in the national market, highlighting strengths, size and output leading the country, has become the largest malting barley and malt transferred out of province, malt enterprises to build scale and speed of development reached a similar industry in the country the most.

Breeding the province's "Sweet beer 3" and "Sweet beer No. 4", various quality indicators were higher than the national standard, the overall level of quality malt also reached the national level and an excellent malt industry standards.
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n 2005, the malting barley area of 170 mu output of 630,000 tons.
Year in July, beer barley, 1,500 yuan / ton enjoys a more than same period in 2004 more than 50 yuan / ton, the price soon be a new record to break, forming a buying trend.

In order to ensure that the Malting Barley Industry in Gansu rapid and healthy development by the end of 2005, the provincial agriculture and animal husbandry Office convened a "malting barley industry development forum," clearly the future of industrial development in Gansu Beer Barley priorities ©U 1, guidance, support and processing enterprises to go grouping roads.

Second, actively promote the establishment of intermediary organizations, improve the processing enterprises and production base linkage mechanism

Third, to develop new production base, the expansion of barley production scale.

Fourth, efforts to increase scientific and technological support, through the technology to increase the overall efficiency of the industry.

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This year, Gansu beer barley planted area is expected to reach 225 million mu, and form the Hexi Corridor, the Yellow River, citing large irrigation as the main body, to semi-arid regions in central and southern supplemented by high-quality beer barley production base, production of 860,000 tons mark for the sprint.

"Beer in Gansu in 2007 to observe and industrial development of raw materials Seminar" held in Yongchang, China Brewing Industry Association Beer Branch chairman Xiao Derun said, "Yongchang malting barley planted area of 35 mu, malt annual processing capacity 26 million tons.

This shows that, Yongchang has become the country's raw material cultivation and domestic beer, malt production, processing County first. "The County since 1986, the malting barley industry characteristics as the focus of the county to develop the county to achieve the cultivation of barley beer, standardized, large-scale and industrialization.

In 2003, by the State General Administration of Quality Supervision to include the national barley production of agricultural standardization demonstration zone.

Strengthen macro-control has become a consensus

Advantage of the scientific layout of production area, area to establish the main push the species to promote quality protection, saving the high-yield cultivation techniques, the establishment of the whole quality control system, the implementation of standardized production; highlight the large-scale cultivation and industrial operations, and efforts to solve product quality and unstable, producing high cost problem; strengthen the industrial organization, strengthen technical information services, and promote the revitalization of domestic beer barley industry.

Taken from "China's malting barley production and development planning" manuscript

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#12
Even in Gansu, beer barley industry development also needs the guidance of macro regulation and control.
Over the years, our province and even the Northwest Territories of beer barley production are directly affected by the number of imported barley, prices and regulation of relevant national policies, the impact of acreage between inter-annual amplitude larger.

If the quantity of imports of barley, the price is low, or the relevant state Policy changes will affect the production of malting barley in our province have been affected by.

In 1996 an area of our province had reached 100 hectares of barley, but in 1997 fell to 40 mu; in 2003 reached a record 143 million mu in 2004 fell to 122 million mu. production of ups and downs, so that households and businesses have suffered great losses.

"This is the August 2004 meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture, Gansu Province, the agricultural sector to do briefings.

Become a steady and coordinated development of malting barley industry, from the outset the problems encountered.

The Beijing Agricultural College Professor Bai Puyi in the last 10 years for domestic malting barley production, marketing and processing of survey and study that has been plaguing the development of domestic beer barley two factors, the four issues put forward four prospects, three a new way out ideas.

Commitment to the Ministry of Agriculture from 2003 "China's malting barley production and development planning" research and write the beginning, he was moving back and forth all year round malting barley-producing areas and put forward the development of the technical line of beer barley and "looking forward to put into practical action to solve" ©U

First, the "three set industrial management", namely to establish the most suitable for planting areas, to establish the most suitable species, to establish the standardization of production technology implemented in a district order to realize "leading enterprises OECD farm or farmers," the industry operations.

The second is to avoid the main production areas in food production Liangmian You "marginal areas" to establish a stable malting barley-producing areas.
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hird, malting barley growing areas in the development of professional economic cooperation organization, orderly production and marketing organization.