In 2024, the government will appropriately increase the level of high-standard farmland construction and provincial investment subsidies, continue to support the revitalization of the seed industry, the action of making up for the shortcomings of agricultural machinery and equipment and agricultural socialization services, explore the establishment of an inter-provincial horizontal interest compensation mechanism for grain production and marketing areas, and improve the diversified investment mechanism.
This is a high-standard farmland construction construction site taken in Shuangfeng Village, Heling Town, Yuhu District, Xiangtan City (drone**) Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Zeguo.
Li Xianzhong, director of the Treasury Department of the Ministry of Finance, recently gave a briefing on financial support for grain production and ensuring food security. Li Xianzhong said that in 2023, the Ministry of Finance will always take ensuring national food security as the top priority of the fiscal policy of supporting agriculture. On the one hand, we should optimize policy supply around consolidating the foundation of food security; On the other hand, financial support should be strengthened around key nodes of grain production.
Among them, we will give full play to the role of financial funds as the main channel, thoroughly implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology", and arrange 92 billion yuan in 2023 to support the construction and transformation of 80 million mu of high-standard farmland, actively promote the protection and utilization of black soil, and start the pilot project of comprehensive utilization of saline-alkali land.
Li Xianzhong said that in 2024, the supervision of the use of financial funds and the implementation of policies will be strengthened to better ensure national food security. (Reporter Shen Cheng).
*: Xinhua News Agency).