Some people say that the fertilizer industry comes and goes every ten years. From 2008 to 2018, exactly 10 years. 2018 is destined to be an extraordinary year for the fertilizer industry. This year, the high pressure of environmental protection + quality improvement + demand weakened, so that the fertilizer market is enjoying a boom, but also experienced a variety of operating difficulties. This year, the government issued a number of policies, affecting each of us fertilizer, but also created the city of ice and fire.

Near the end of the year, today I would like to review these policies of the 2018 fertilizer circle with you, and see how these policies affect our work this year and will continue to affect our work next year!

In January

Environmental taxes were imposed

On January 1, 2018, China's first green tax law, the environmental protection tax law of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the "environmental protection tax law"), came into effect. According to the environmental protection tax law, the range of tax payable for air pollutants is 1.2 yuan to 12 yuan per pollution equivalent, and the range of tax payable for water pollutants is 1.4 yuan to 14 yuan per pollution equivalent.

The implementation of the "environmental protection tax law", marking the 38 years of operation of the pollutant discharge fee system will become a history, environmental protection formally incorporated into the national tax law system, the state will start from the tax lever, so that enterprises more pollution will pay more tax, less pollution can enjoy tax incentives. The imposition of environmental taxes has increased the tax burden on fertilizer companies, adding to the already booming fertilizer market.

In January

The tariff of ternary compound fertilizer is levied from 100 yuan per ton

On December 15 last year, the ministry of finance announced the details of the 2018 fertilizer export tariff. According to the new rules on export tariffs of chemical fertilizers, the export tariff of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium ternary compound fertilizers will be adjusted from 20% AD valorem to 100 yuan per ton from January 1, 2018, and the export tariff of phosphate ores will be reduced from 15% to 10%. In addition, other tariffs directly related to fertilizers are essentially unchanged. In fact, the industry is most concerned about nitrogen, phosphate fertilizer continue to implement zero tariff export, and direct export of potash fertilizer continued to be restricted, but the export of compound fertilizer further relax.

April

We will fully deploy agricultural assets to fight counterfeiting

On April 3, the ministry of agriculture and villages issued a notice on the implementation plan of the 2018 national campaign against fake agricultural assets, saying that a campaign will be launched in 2018 to crack down on the production and sale of fake agricultural assets in accordance with the law to ensure the safety of agricultural production and the quality and safety of agricultural products.

According to the concrete implementation plan, the agriculture and rural areas will combine multiple departments, to develop "green sword USES" agricultural materials anti-counterfeiting special management action, recessive composition problem of pesticide, veterinary drugs illegally added, such problems as insufficient fertilizer effective components and chloride ions to exceed bid, and to establish a system for agricultural materials illegal faithless blacklist, the agricultural capital illegal promise enterprise list.

On may

VAT on fertilizers and pesticides was reduced to 10%

From May 1, the value-added tax rate on goods such as pesticides and fertilizers will be cut to 10% from 11%, and the tax increase rate on land and water transportation services will also be cut to 10%. In addition, the annual sales standard for industrial enterprises and small-scale commercial enterprises has been raised to 5 million yuan from 500,000 yuan and 800,000 yuan in the past. The reduction of tax rate, is undoubtedly in the policy for fertilizer enterprises to reduce the tax burden, reduce the operating costs.

On may

The planting structure continued to be optimized

Zeng engde, director of the planting management department of the ministry of agriculture and village, said at a news conference on the development of China's seed industry on May 16 that the structure of agricultural planting will be adjusted this year. We will reduce the area planted to rice and corn, increase the area planted to soybeans and miscellaneous grains and beans, and increase the area planted to green and high-quality products such as high-gluten and low-gluten wheat, high-quality rice, double-low rapeseed, high-protein soybeans, high-yielding and high-sugar sugarcane. It is estimated that this year's rice planting area of 440 million mu, more than 10 million mu less than the previous year; Soybean planting area of 127 million mu, an increase of 10 million mu, miscellaneous grains and miscellaneous beans 140 million mu, an increase of more than 1 million mu.

On may

Environmental protection is prohibited

On May 28, the ministry of ecological and environmental protection issued the "one-size-fits-all" work opinions on banning environmental protection. The guideline pointed out that during the supervision period, the supervised places should establish a mechanism according to the requirements, carry out reform at the same time, supervise and carry out reform at the same time, effectively solve the problems of people's ecological environment letters and visits, and earnestly promote the investigation, rectification and accountability of prominent ecological environment problems. In the rectification work, we should formulate feasible plans, adhere to the law and regulations, strengthen policy support, pay attention to overall planning and promotion, strictly prohibit "all shut down", "stop first and then" and other perfunctory responses, and resolutely avoid the concentrated work stoppage or suspension of production and other simple and crude ACTS.

June

We will speed up efforts to strengthen agricultural brands and promote high-quality agricultural development

On June 8, the ministry of agriculture and village decided to implement the action of promoting agricultural brands in 2018 through the opinions of the ministry of agriculture and village on accelerating the promotion of agricultural brands. Tang ke, director general of the market and economic information department of the ministry of agriculture and villages, said that brand building runs through the whole agricultural industry chain and is an important support and lasting power to boost agricultural transformation and upgrading, improve quality and increase efficiency. Accelerating the promotion of brand agriculture is the concrete embodiment of the transformation of agriculture from growth-oriented to quality-oriented, and an important way to cultivate new driving forces of agricultural development.

In August

The law on the prevention and control of soil pollution was promulgated

On August 31, the soil pollution prevention and control law was passed. The law, consisting of seven chapters and 99 articles, will come into force on jan 1, 2019. This is the first time that China has formulated a special law to regulate the prevention and control of soil pollution, which is a great benefit to the soil pollution prevention and control industry and promotes the rapid development of soil health and soil remediation fertilizer products.

On September

Seven billion to support agricultural services

On September 12, the ministry of agriculture and village posted on its website its answer to the question "Suggestions on speeding up the development of a service-oriented agriculture with moderate scale operation". Content revealed, the ministry of agriculture and village finance jointly promoted in 2017? Special development of agricultural production in 2018, the central government of the communist party of China to arrange capital of 7 billion yuan, used to support to the socialized service of agricultural production managed to give priority to, the key support service organizations for small farmers to provide deep deep loosening, seedlings, such key links as TongFang rule production hosting service, lead the small farmers to develop modern agriculture, promote the service scale operation.

In November,

Strive for negative growth in fertilizer use by 2020

On November 1, the ministry of agriculture and village held the national fruit and vegetable tea green development and fertilizer and pesticide reduction and efficiency sharing meeting in nanning, guangxi, to summarize the experience of fruit, vegetable and tea green development, and to study and deploy the key work of continuously promoting fruit, vegetable and tea green development and fertilizer and pesticide reduction and efficiency improvement.

The meeting requires that we adhere to the concept of green development, build a modern fruit and vegetable tea industry system, production system and management system, and speed up the development of a modern fruit and vegetable tea industry that is efficient, safe, resource-saving and environmentally friendly. While stabilizing the area of fruits, vegetables and tea, improving product quality and efficiency, improving industrial competitiveness and improving the ability of green development of the industry, we strive to achieve negative growth of the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides by 2020.

(editor in charge: YanBO)