Information regarding farm scale is manually compiled at the village level before being passed up to the county and then onto the provincial governments which allocate the funds (Gale, 2013). The administrative costs of this system are high and could be reduced by further progress in the development of a nationwide property register or investment in technology that enables more efficient collection of production data. Minimum grain prices are implemented only in those regions that have a supply surplus, with the annual price setting based on estimates of the production costs of agricultural producers.