In establishing and selecting the warehouse capacity, the existing national storage and logistics facilities should be fully utilized, which could minimize storage and transportation costs, Feng added.

Meanwhile, the digitalization of the emergency security strategy system for agricultural inputs should be improved.

Recommendations call for an online platform for data, transaction and logistics that covers the whole industrial chain of agricultural inputs (including production, circulation and logistics enterprises) and serves as the supporting platform for "national agricultural security".

Syngenta Group China is a large State-owned central enterprise engaged in agriculture, and it is one of the four business units of Syngenta Group, which belongs to Sinochem Holdings Corp Ltd.

Its "Fertex" platform, which was launched on July 1, 2019, has information, logistics and transaction functions, and has been selected by the Price Monitoring Center of the National Development and Reform Commission as the core data provider and partner for price index compilation.