The No.1 Proposal of the National Committee
of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) of 2016 is The Proposal about Accelerating the
Development of the Olive Industry. It has exceeded many people’s
expectations that the Olive had been the focus of the Proposal.
Source: Internet
According to the State Forestry Bureau, the
olive is one of the important woody oil-bearing resources in China. It has been
of great significance in regard to providing people with healthy and superior
edible vegetable oil, developing green industry, increasing income of
enterprises, farmers, and forestry workers, protecting ecological environment,
reducing China’s foreign-trade dependence of edible vegetable oil, and
safeguarding national food and oil security.
The camellia oleifera, oil palm, coconut
and olive, which carry the superior edible vegetable oil, are the four major
woody oil-bearing plants around the world, among which the olive is also the
well-known subtropical fruit tree and important economic tree.
China introduced the sapling of olive from
Albania in 1964 and started the cultivation experiments since then. The tree
was successfully cultivated in Longnan, Gansu Province in 1970s.
According to Xue Liang, proposer of the
No.1 Proposal, among all those edible vegetable oil resources, the olive is the
only one that can be directly processed from the fresh fruit by the means of
cold pressing and is ready for eating just after the procedure of pressing. The
market potential of the olive oil is huge; however, in China, 90% of it relies
on the imports at present. Besides, the resources in the suitable planting
areas are limited and should be fully developed and exploited. As the suitable
planting areas of the olive are mostly the impoverished mountainous areas,
developing the industry of olive has greatly benefited the work of anti-poverty
development.
According to the State Forestry Bureau, the
consumption of the edible vegetable oil in China has continually increased,
which directly result in the gap in the oil supply and high level of the
foreign-trade dependence. In 2013, China’s yield of edible vegetable oil was 28
million tons, among which 60% of the raw resources depend on import. In 2013, the
import of soybean reached 63.38 million tons.
“In terms of the olive industry in Longnan,
Gansu Province, the output value of the fresh fruit was RMB155 million in 2014
and the total value of the output was RMB850 million, which benefited 40
thousand households with the average revenue of RMB2,125,” said Xue.
“The proportion of the olive earning in the
rural per capital net income increased from 12% in 2012 to 21% in 2014. This
kind of earning has been one of the important increase incomes for the farmers.”
The olive industry has been the pillar industry for alleviating poverty and
developing the regional economy in the suitable planting areas.
The suitable planting areas for growing the
olive are mainly distributed in the areas of Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan, and
Chongqing. In Guangyuan City, Sichuan, the cultivated area of the olive was 10,866
hectares, with the output value of RMB160 million. It is planned that by the
end of the 13th Five Year Plan, the gross area of the olive
cultivating base would reach to 13,333 hectares with the output value more than
RMB500 million.
According to the data released by the State
Forestry Bureau, in 2012, the cultivated area of the olive was 19,000 hectares
in Gansu Province, accounted for 48.85% of the total cultivated areas in China;
the output of the olive was 7,446 tonnes, took up 44.80% of the national gross
output of the olive.
According to the Opinions on Accelerating the Development of Industry of the Woody
Oil-bearing Resources released by the Central Office of the State Council
in 2014, the government shall accelerate the industries of camellia oleifera,
walnut and olive and shall support the industries in investment, financing,
technical research and development, and promotion in light of the policies.
According to the introduction made by the
State Forestry Bureau, there are four major obstacles in developing the
industry of woody oil-bearing resource in China at present. The first one is
the improper and insufficient awareness of the woody oil-bearing resources; the
second one is that most of woody oil plants have been in the uncultivated or
half-cultivated situations due to the application of seedlings planting in the
past, the serious variety degeneration, and extensive operation, and there’s no
industry has been formed; the third one is that the prior-period investment was
too heavy for the farmers could bear, for example, the investment of the prior
period in growing camellia oleifera has been in range from RMB1,000 to 3,000;
the last one is in regard to the industrialization—the degree of industrialization
is low, the industrialization system is still waiting to be formulated and the
industrial chain is yet to establish.
The No.1 Proposal proposed that the
country should formulate the strategic target and plan for developing the olive
industry, list them into the 13th Five Year Plan, and take the dominant
area of Longnan, Gansu as priority to develop the olive industry. The country
should also strengthen the support to olive industry. As the prior-period investment
is as costly as RMB45, 000 per hectare and the earnings cycle is as long as at
least 5 years, the central and local government should offer their supports in
regard to the cultivation subsidy, infrastructure construction, finance
service, and agricultural insurance. It is also important to improve the
operating level of the olive industrialization and strengthen the construction
of the professional team in terms of the olive industry.
Meanwhile, due to characteristics of the
long-term investment return and heavy economic input in the woody oil resources
industry, the proposal encouraged the commercial financial institution
rationally confirms the length of maturity and interest rate and increase the
credit input in the premise of the controllable risks. The proposal also propels
the innovation of the financial products and service modes, strives to develop
the Forestry Rights Mortgage Loan, Rural Household Micro-finance, and Farm
Household Group Lending, and explore the launch of the business experimental
units for conducting the loan on the rural land contractual management right.
*This article is an edited and
translated version by CCM. The original article comes from Sina.cn.
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