According to forecasts from the National Grain & Oils Information Center and the China Food Industry Association, China's corn output may reach 215 million tonnes in 2013/2014, 7 million tonnes more than in 2012/2013. The increase in corn output may result in a decrease in the price of corn.

1. China's corn output to reach 215 million tonnes in 2013/2014
Summary: According to forecasts from the National Grain & Oils Information Center and the
China Food Industry Association, China's corn output may reach 215 million tonnes in
2013/2014, 7 million tonnes more than in 2012/2013. The increase in corn output may result in
a decrease in the price of corn.
Tags: corn, output, data, import price, market price, deep-processing, oversupply, purchasing
price
According to forecasts from the National Grain & Oils Information Center and the China Food
Industry Association, China's corn output may reach 215 million tonnes in 2013/2014, 7 million
tonnes more than in 2012/2013. The increase in corn output may result in a decrease in the
price of corn. According to CCM's data, the output and the annual market price of corn in
China maintained an uptrend during 2009/2010-2012/2013.
Affected by the corn harvest in Oct. 2013, the pressure from imported corn and the depressed
corn deep-processing industry, the domestic market is facing an oversupply of corn.
According to China Customs' data, the average corn import price was USD306.3/t in the first
eight months of 2013 in China. It was much lower than China's average market price of corn
which was USD380.5/t. During this period, China imported more than 1.6 million tonnes of
corn, which was already a relatively large number.
As for the corn deep-processing industry, it saw a downtrend. Xu Jiawan, the manager of the
corn purchasing department of Cargill Biochemical (Songyuan) Co., Ltd. (Songyuan Cargill),
said that the overall operating rate of the corn deep-processing industry was less than 50%.
For instance, the average operating rate of domestic corn starch enterprises was presently as
low as about 46%, owing to the oversupply and the weak demand for corn starch from
downstream industries. Similarly, the average operating rate of alcohol enterprises is also
relatively low.
Liu Xiaoran, deputy Secretary-General of the corn branch of the China Food Industry
Association, estimates that domestic corn consumption will be just 197.5 million tonnes in
2013/2014, which is much less than the output of corn.
Due to the oversupply of corn, the market price of corn harvested in autumn may decrease and
it may be even lower than the government's corn purchasing price for temporary reserves.
Moreover, the overall quality of corn is not as high as before, due to the severe weather this
year, which may also suppress the market price of corn.
Recently, the purchasing prices of corn set by some leading corn deep-processing enterprises
in Northeast China have decreased compared with those in 2012. For instance, on Sept. 25,
2013, Changchun Jincheng Corn Development Co., Ltd. (Changchun Jincheng), a subsidiary

2. of Changchun Dacheng Industrial Group Co., Ltd., set its corn purchasing price at USD341.5/t
(RMB2,100/t), USD9.8/t (RMB60/t) less than that in 2012. On Sept. 28, Songyuan Cargill set
its corn purchasing price as the same as that of Changchun Jincheng, but the price was
USD16.3/t (RMB100/t) less than that of last year. These companies' purchasing prices are all
below the corn purchasing price for the temporary corn reserves set by the National
Development and Reform Commission of China (NDRC).
As early as July 3, 2013, the NDRC announced that China would increase the purchasing
price for temporary corn reserves in 2013/2014. The purchasing prices of corn (third-grade of
the national standards) will be USD366.3/t (RMB2,260/t), USD366.3/t (RMB2,260/t),
USD363.0/t (RMB2,240/t) and USD359.8/t (RMB2,220/t) in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin and
Heilongjiang (the main corn planting areas in China) respectively, which are all USD19.4/t
(RMB120/t) higher than the prices of 2012. (For more details, please refer to Corn Products
China News 1307: China increases temporary reserve price of corn in 2013/2014).
Source: Corn Products China News issued by CCM in October.
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