In 2022, the first financial arrangement of agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds will be as high as 21.2 billion yuan, aiming to promote the process of agricultural mechanization, support farmers to purchase machinery, and improve agricultural production efficiency. However, there has been some shocking news in the market recently, some people have used the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy project to carry out an ulterior **, and swept away millions of state subsidies. Let's unravel this shady mess and see how these "zombie farms" make money.
After receiving the revelation from a grower, the reporter investigated deeply and walked into the local countryside to witness the **. Growers told reporters that these equipment, known as "zombie agricultural machinery", are actually equivalent to a pile of scrap iron, and they do not hesitate to fabricate the "production" capacity and "actual" use effect of the machine in order to obtain subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery. For example, growers say that these rice side deep fertilizer applicators seem to be able to rotate, but the actual efficiency is extremely low, and the working area of a day is only a fraction of that of a normal machine, and the machine often jams. As a result, these machines are almost unused and have become decorations in the farmland, and are nicknamed "zombie agricultural machinery".
Stepping into Runyang City, Jiangsu Province, the reporter found that a company called Runyang Agricultural Machinery played an important role. The company sold a large number of Henan Saiteng side deep fertilizer applicators, and applied for national agricultural machinery subsidies, this ** tide seems to have flooded all corners. According to the statistics of Zhenjiang Runyang Agricultural Machinery, as of November 2023, a total of 175 Henan Saiteng side deep fertilizer applicators have applied for national agricultural machinery subsidies, with a subsidy of 5,000 yuan each, of which 153 have completed the settlement.
Jiangsu Zhenjiang Runyang Agricultural Machinery Sales Staff: We engage in "activities" for the state subsidy, this machine to you, you don't have to pay for it, the subsidy is to your personal account, you give me the subsidy.
The reporter's investigation found that there was no financial exchange between the dealer and the farmer to buy the machine, and the invoice was also false, but the dealer had no fear. In practice, how exactly are local authorities regulated?The reporter contacted the local agricultural machinery management department about the problems found in the investigation.
Staff of Yangzhou Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Jiangsu Province: It is useless to look for me, because we do not issue purchase subsidies at the municipal level, we are managing purchase subsidies, and we distribute them by county, and all the country's money must go to the county.
Staff of Xinghua Agriculture and Rural Bureau, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province: We are responsible for issuing subsidies, focusing on checking authenticity. As long as the machine is bought back and there are materials, there is no way to define whether the other party is fraudulent or not.
It is understood that similar agricultural machinery subsidies ** are widespread across the country and are increasing year by year. **The huge amount of subsidy funds invested by the government is regarded as a "cash cow" by some lawbreakers, who defraud the subsidy money through false declarations and exaggerated effects to seek illegal benefits. This has seriously damaged the interests of the state's finances, hindered the normal development of agricultural machinery and equipment, and affected the improvement of China's agricultural mechanization level.
Although the state has clear regulations on the application and receipt of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies and continues to standardize and optimize, these agricultural machinery subsidy funds have become "Tang monk meat" in the eyes of some people, which greatly discounts the country's policy of benefiting farmers.