Abstract:

As a southwestern border province of China, Yunnan is featured by the geographical advantage of proximity to the Indo-China Peninsula which is named ‘World Rice Warehouse’, and its capital and technology are ahead of the neighboring countries of China. Therefore, to enhance its support capability in consolidating and improving the national food security strategy, Yunnan should further develop its comparative advantages by building the regional food industry chain and supply chain depending on the province’s grain system of production, processing, storage and transportation, as well as its agricultural economic and trade cooperation platforms and channels with the neighboring countries of China. In this study, we used comparative analysis and related methods to systematically analyze the scale of grain production in Yunnan, the proportion of its grain production to the national total amount, the transition of its grain variety structure and the characteristics of its food security system, as well as the grain export trade of the 6 countries in the Indo-China Peninsula from 2010 to 2019. Then, we identified the problems in grain production in Yunnan such as the decrease of grain ration production capacity, the decline of comparative benefits of grain production and the insufficient support for agricultural ‘go global’ strategy. Finally, a series of countermeasures were put forward, including further implementing the strategy of ‘reserving grain in land and technology’ to increase Yunnan’s production capacity of grain, focusing on agricultural products storage and transportation system to improve the ability to obtain grain from abroad, expanding the border processing and logistics industry, optimizing the policy of agricultural products’ import and export, and etc.

Key words: food security strategy, industry chain and supply chain, comparative advantage, production capacity, Yunnan