Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Efforts should be made to stabilize the area and increase yields to ensure grain production.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Lu.
Food security is the "great thing of the country". In recent years, in the face of multiple challenges such as the severe global food security situation and the frequent occurrence of natural disasters in China, China has taken solving the problem of feeding more than 1.4 billion people as the top priority of the "three rural" work, and has done everything possible to promote production and reap a bumper harvest. In 2023, the national grain output will remain stable at 1 for 9 consecutive yearsMore than 3 trillion catties have provided strong support for promoting the sustained recovery of the economy.
However, it should also be noted that the structural contradictions in China's grain are still prominent, the situation of tight balance between grain supply and demand has not fundamentally changed, and the string of food security cannot be relaxed at any time. This year's No. 1 document focuses on ensuring grain production and supply, clarifies the main direction of stabilizing the area and increasing yield, and clearly proposes to ensure that grain output is maintained at 1Mission objectives of more than 3 trillion catties.
How to stabilize the grain sown area?
* The relevant members of the drafting group of Document No. 1 said that the key to stabilizing the grain sowing area and consolidating the results of soybean expansion is to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain and local governments to grasp grain. This year's document specifically deploys this.
Focusing on mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, the document focuses on strengthening policy measures in terms of **, subsidies, and insurance. ** Appropriately raise the minimum purchase price of wheat, reasonably determine the minimum purchase price of rice, and prevent grain from hurting farmers.
In terms of subsidies, continue to implement subsidies for the protection of cultivated land and subsidies for corn and soybean producers, and rice subsidies, improve the response mechanism for ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural materials, and encourage local governments to explore the establishment of dynamic subsidy methods linked to the range of agricultural materials to improve the efficiency of subsidies.
In terms of insurance, the scope of implementation of full-cost insurance and planting income insurance policies will be expanded to achieve nationwide coverage of the three major staple grains and orderly expansion of soybeans. Through this package of policies and measures, the peasants will be able to earn money and profit from growing grain.
In order to arouse the enthusiasm of local governments in grasping grain, the document proposes to increase support for large grain-producing counties. Explore the establishment of an inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation mechanism for grain production and marketing areas.
There is limited space for expanding the cultivated area in China, and the potential for increasing grain production is mainly in the yield of the plant. **The first document is clear, and a new round of 100 billion catties of grain production capacity improvement action will be solidly promoted. Implement the grain yield improvement project, and integrate and promote good land, good seeds, good opportunities and good methods. Accelerate the revitalization of the seed industry, improve the joint research and development and application cooperation mechanism, increase the key core technology research of the seed source, and accelerate the selection and promotion of independent excellent varieties urgently needed for production. Strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure.
The first document also made it clear that the concept of big agriculture and big food should be established, and food should be expanded through multiple channels.
Food security is ultimately about food security. * A relevant member of the drafting group of Document No. 1 said that "eating" is not only the consumption of grain, but also meat, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, fish, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and so on.
* The relevant members of the drafting group of Document No. 1 said that in addition to making good use of traditional cultivated land resources, it is also necessary to expand the use of forests, grasslands, rivers, lakes and seas and other resources, develop agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery simultaneously, develop food in multiple ways, and build a diversified food supply system, so that the people of the whole country can eat enough, eat abundantly and eat healthily.