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"You are the police, right? Well, I just want to tell you about this. We are the local planting cooperative. But isn't it strange that we can't sell any of the subsidized high-priced grain collected by the grain depot every autumn? Only a few companies can sell it to us. What do you think is going on? No one cares when we complain to the higher-ups, and no one cares when we make trouble to the lower-ups."

At Zhangcun Cooperative, Wang Zhaokai learned more information.

A meeting room in the Mawang Town Police Station was reserved for Lu Chuan and others.

Wang Zhaokai and his team had already sent people to understand the situation at several larger cooperatives in the town, and the information they had gathered made Wang Zhaokai feel that there was indeed something going on here.

At this moment, Wang Zhaokai was reporting to Lu Chuan some of the situations he had learned, and then added some of his own analysis.

"The big players in town, which are the rural cooperatives, generally have two business models."

According to the information currently available, there are a total of 14 business cooperatives in the entire town.

Each of these 14 rural cooperatives has cultivated tens of thousands of acres of land.

According to the current investigation, there are two main business models among these 14 cooperatives. The first one is operated by foreign investment.

This kind of foreign investment includes those from Haizhou City and some southern provinces. Those who come here are agricultural material companies or agricultural trade companies that invest in farming.

Generally speaking, these cooperatives have their own grain purchasing channels, which means that the grain they sell after planting the land every year is generally not sold through the grain depot or some grain merchants in Mawang Town.

"They plant different cash crops every year according to the contract, and then in the fall, the corresponding partners will come to buy the crops."

Wang Zhaokai listed eight of the rural cooperatives. Basically, these eight cooperatives have this business model and are managed by locals, but generally speaking, the bosses are from other places.

"There are six other rural cooperatives that are organized locally. Some are in the form of village collectives that lease all the land in one or two villages, and then plant and sell crops in a unified way."

"Others invest in their own name or bring together a few people to invest in a rural cooperative, then lease the land from farmers and connect them into large-scale unified planting."

The problems Wang Zhaokai investigated appeared in these local rural cooperatives.

These local rural cooperatives are different from those with foreign investment. The grain they produce can only be sold by themselves, and there are no contract companies or other partners to actively purchase it.

Moreover, due to the special environment and climate in Haizhou City, generally only one crop of grain can be grown a year, and the main crops grown are corn and soybeans.

On the one hand, planting corn and soybeans can facilitate the rotation every two years. In addition, the subsidies for corn and soybeans are also relatively high.

The subsidy here is not a price subsidy for purchasing grain, but every year the local government of Haizhou City provides planting subsidies to farmers who grow corn and soybeans.

Based on the subsidized price, the income per mu of corn and soybeans is approximately 1000 yuan.

Although the yield of soybeans is relatively low, generally speaking, the yield per acre is about 400 kilograms.

However, the price of soybeans is relatively high. Generally speaking, each pound of soybeans can be sold for about two yuan.

In addition, the government will subsidize 300 yuan for every acre of soybean planting, so the income from one acre of soybeans is about 1000 yuan.

In comparison, the yield of corn is relatively large, usually about 1000 kilograms per mu, but its price is relatively low, usually between 8 cents and 9 cents in US dollars, but its subsidy price is also relatively low, and the planting price after subsidies should not exceed 100 yuan per mu. So the income from planting the two is basically the same.

"The local rural cooperatives have no other partners, so they basically only grow corn and soybeans and no other crops."

According to Wang Zhaokai's investigation, the other eight cooperatives sometimes grow red beans, black beans and other relatively niche cash crops.

These cash crops have higher economic value, higher unit prices, and some have considerable yields, so the profits are very considerable. However, because local rural cooperatives do not have such sales channels, most of them grow corn and soybeans.

"Generally speaking, these two crops can only be sold to grain depots, but the local cooperative does not have the quota for purchasing new grain from the grain depots every autumn."

index?

Lu Chuan immediately grasped the key points in Wang Zhaokai's report.

Wang Zhaokai nodded.

"Yes, that's the indicator!"

The key to the problem seems to lie in this indicator.

According to what Wang Chaokai has learned, there is a new grain purchasing quota at the Mawang Town Grain Depot during the autumn harvest every year, and this so-called quota is allocated by the superiors.

"Because every autumn harvest, the state will subsidize the new grain according to relevant policies to prevent farmers from losing money, so generally speaking, the purchase price of grain depots is higher than that of grain merchants outside."

But the key issue is that not everyone can get the grain purchasing target of the grain depot.

Only people with connections and channels can get these grain purchasing quotas, and Wang Zhaokai and his team did some investigation.

The so-called grain purchasing targets of Mawang Town Grain Depot are approximately 350 million tons per year.

"When we checked the accounts at the grain depot earlier, we didn't quite understand what these indicators meant, but after the people from the cooperative explained it, we roughly understood that the Mawang Town grain depot has a purchase quota of about 350 million tons of new grain each year, and 300 million tons of it were all taken away by the three grain merchants."

Most of the grain purchasing quotas were taken away by three grain purchasing grain merchants, and most of them did not cause much controversy.

After all, these three grain purchasing merchants also have the responsibility of purchasing the old grain in the granaries every year, and they all purchase it at prices higher than the market price.

A few people from the Economic Crime Investigation Department of the Xinshi District Police Station also came over and roughly checked the relevant accounts.

In fact, the grain price these grain traders can get through subsidized prices and the losses they incur from purchasing old grain are basically at a break-even point.

"At best there is some small profit, but it's not much."

Because most of the new grain purchase quotas were taken by these three large-scale merchants, other rural cooperatives could not get the remaining 50 tons of grain purchase quotas. (End of this chapter)