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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#2
"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.