Rice is an indispensable staple food for Chinese catering, as early as 5,000 years ago, the primitive tribes of The Land of China have learned to grow rice, and the largest is also one of the five grains in Chinese since ancient times, which also reflects the important position of rice in China's catering industry. People take food as the sky, and eating is everyone's just need, so in China, which has a population of 1.4 billion, the sales of rice have also been concerned by various countries.
Internationally, China is also the country with the largest rice production, followed by India. China's rice production in 2018 reached 212 million tons, China's internal consumption demand is 180 million tons, and there are 0.3 billion tons left every year.
Even so, our country is still a coveted rice export market for many countries. Not only are there homegrown rice sold in the market in our country, but also rice from other countries can often be seen, such as Thai rice, Japanese rice and so on. And the units in these countries are popular in China because they have their own characteristics.
As an economic power, the United States has a vast plain, and modern agriculture is extremely developed, but it is not the main ingredient for Americans. However, the United States, as a major agricultural exporter, will adjust its farming type according to the different needs of the agricultural products of the trade partners.
So in the United States, rice production is less than 2% of the world's total production, but exports account for 12% of the world's total, ranking third in the world!
However, many Chinese who study in the United States, after tasting the rice in the United States, have expressed their non-recommendation, believing that American rice is an industrial fast consumer product, although the cooking speed is very fast, but it is not fragrant and delicious enough.
In the United States, there are few rice-based staple foods, the most famous is Jambalaya, which translates to Chinese is "assorted risotto", which is to stew tomatoes, ham, sausages, celery, onions, green peppers, etc. plus shellfish seafood, and rice.
U.S. agriculture has also taken a fancy to the Chinese rice market and has always wanted to enter China, so it has also joined the rice planting army, but until 2017, China did not allow American rice to enter the market, but the follow-up because of changes in the international environment, resulting in the delay in entering the Chinese market. Finally, last year, the first batch of American rice was officially cleared in Xiamen.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > for the introduction of American rice, its taste and price are the most concerned about everyone. </h1>
The first batch of rice production sites in China are in California, and the corresponding supplier in China is ADM, which has held many large-scale promotion activities in Shanghai, Shenzhen and other places before rice entered the market.
There is no standardized definition of cadmium and arsenic content in American rice, but China has strict standards for the two elements in rice. After several consultations, china officially issued a permit for U.S. rice imports in December 2018.
As a new kind of rice, there are many kinds of rice in the United States, which are improved and cultivated according to the slender rice grains in India, and there are also full rice grains similar to domestic northeast rice but the sweetness, which will be slightly different from domestic rice.
U.S. rice exports are quoted at about $625 per ton, equivalent to 4,135 yuan. According to this conversion, the import cost is also about 2 yuan per kilogram.
Follow-up increase in distributors to extract profits and intermediate logistics links, etc., the final price should not be much different from the price of rice in China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="15" >for merchants, will the entry of U.S. rice have an impact on the domestic rice market? </h1>
In fact, merchants do not have to worry about the occurrence of such problems, the united states rice into the market is only a small part, the united states annual rice production is only about 7 million tons, the real export may be less than one-third of it, the impact on China's rice market is small. Therefore, the American rice flowing into the Chinese market will not be in the majority, and china's national consumption of rice is mainly derived from their own production.
After the American rice enters the market, it not only faces the competition of China's self-produced rice, but also faces Vietnam, Thailand and other regional rice at the same time.
According to statistics, Vietnam's rice exports to China from January to September this year were 536,000 tons, an increase of 82.5% over last year, if the price of American rice may not necessarily be better than Vietnam's rice. Vietnamese rice is inexpensive, and some varieties are popular Chinese, such as Vietnamese fragrant rice.
The price of rice in Vietnam is only about $400 per ton, but for the Chinese, they are no longer sensitive to the price of rice, and ultimately depend on its taste and decide which type of rice to buy.
Therefore, the entry of American rice into the market so far can not see whether it can successfully "survive", after all, the consumer's mouth is not so satisfied.
The entry of American rice into China has promoted trade exchanges between the two sides and eased the economic situation between China and the United States. However, the most important thing for importing rice from our country is that the quality needs to be guaranteed, consumers are not fools, and only good things can retain the hearts of consumers.
Finally, if American rice were really sold on your doorstep, would you buy it and get a taste?