Insights and Stories of Niu Shuping

Nov. 4, 2015 at 4:15 pm CST

Beijing/Reuters – China’s ruling Communist Party has for the first time proposed to let land lie fallow in some areas to ease pressure on exhausted water and land resources while grain stocks are near record levels, state media reported on Wednesday. After years of excessive cultivation and bumper grain harvests, […]

By Dominique Patton, Niu Shuping

Feb. 3, 2015 at 3:56 am CST

Beijing | Reuters –– China wants to give the market a bigger role in setting farm prices and move away from a controversial state stockpiling policy that has led to bulging grain inventories and a surge of cheap imports, a top agricultural official said Tuesday. That policy, in which grains […]

By Dominique Patton, Niu Shuping

Jan. 9, 2015 at 10:42 am CST

Beijing | Reuters — China’s grain imports could plummet this year, with the government determined to sell off as much of its bulging state grain reserves as possible before it finally grants mills permission to buy overseas, analysts said. In previous years, private mills were normally allocated grain import quotas […]

By david-stanway, Niu Shuping

Jan. 6, 2015 at 5:30 pm CST

Beijing/Singapore | Reuters — Chinese wheat buyers are likely to step up imports of higher quality grains to meet a domestic shortfall even though total overseas purchases are forecast to tumble this year due to bumper production at home, analysts and traders said. China, the world’s biggest wheat producer and […]

By Naveen Thukral, Niu Shuping

Nov. 20, 2014 at 4:15 pm CST

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to revamp the scheme it uses to allocate quotas for agricultural imports, as part of efforts to stamp out corruption and to rein in record state grain stockpiles, according to government and industry sources. The low-tariff quotas, which are sanctioned under China’s membership of […]

By fayen-wong, Niu Shuping