"We must adjust the structure in a down-to-earth manner" (food security concerned by the general secretary)
People's Daily (February 20, 2022, 01st edition)
The spring breeze melts and the wilderness recovers. In the Yellow River Delta Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone in Dongying City, Shandong Province, unmanned agricultural machinery "Dada" travels, and the plough turns the soil.
On October 21 last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here to inspect the growth of soybeans, alfalfa, quinoa and green manure crops. The general secretary went into the field, bent down to pick a pod, peeled out a soybean, put it in his mouth and chewed it carefully: "The beans grow very well." ”
The country is based on agriculture, and the people take food as the sky. Grain harvests have been bumper year after year, and new issues have followed: bidding farewell to the troubles of "not having enough to eat", encountering structural problems, and coexisting with oversupply and insufficient supply in stages. Rice, wheat, corn, soybeans, how to resolve the structural contradictions on the supply side?
General Secretary Xi Jinping has directionalized the pulse: "The rice bowl of the Chinese must be firmly in his own hands at all times, and the rice bowl is mainly filled with Chinese grain" "There must be a rational layout, and the main production area, the main sales area, and the production and marketing balance area must maintain the area and maintain the yield" "It is necessary to adjust the structure on the ground, expand the planting of soybeans and oilseeds, and see the results that can be measured."
The plants of rice and grain are pinned on the general secretary's deep feelings of "three rural areas" and are full of deep concern for China's rice bowl.
Remember the instructions and live up to the spring light. A set of agricultural machinery galloping, a ridge of good seeds sown. All regions and departments focus on the market to adjust the structure and varieties, eliminate ineffective supply, increase effective supply, and expand high-end supply. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs proposed to ensure summer grain and stabilize the whole year, expand beans and increase oil, and ensure that the grain sown area will be stable at 1.76 billion mu this year.
Adjust the varieties to ensure that they can be produced and supplied when needed
Ensuring stable grain production and supply is not only a matter of total quantity, but also a matter of structure.
The Songliao Plain is the "golden corn belt" and the "hometown of soybeans". The spring breeze blows the black earth.
On July 22, 2020, in the core demonstration area of the national million mu green food raw material (corn) standardization production base in Lishu County, Jilin Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping looked at the column in the distance, and the corn field was boundless and the green waves were rolling. "I saw rice in Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang last year, and this time I came to see corn." Corn field, General Secretary Xi Jinping talked about the original intention of the trip.
"Now when we talk about food security, we are actually food security";
"On the basis of ensuring national food security, we should strive to optimize the structure of industrial products";
"To ensure food security, the key is to maintain food production capacity and ensure that it can be produced and supplied when needed";
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After investigation and investigation, and important speech after important speech, the path of grain structure adjustment has become clearer.
Stabilize the supply of grain and let the "rice bags" bulge.
With the goal of "stabilizing rations and stabilizing corn," all localities have made every effort to strengthen field management and protection. The agricultural and rural sectors have strengthened the promotion of late-sown wheat, expanded the planting area of spring wheat, steadily expanded the area of early rice, and taken multiple measures to ensure that grain output continues to remain above 1.3 trillion catties.
Tap the potential to expand the area, so that the shortage of varieties more.
Solidly expand the soybean oil. All localities should prepare sufficient seeds, fertilizers and other agricultural materials, strengthen agricultural technology and agronomic guidance, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of the agricultural supply system. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs proposed that the area of soybean oil should be restored and increased this year.
The soybean and corn strip compound planting is an innovative move, and this year will support more than 15 million mu of new areas in the northwest, Huang-Huai-Hai, southwest and middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Continue to promote winter rapeseed, spring rapeseed, peanuts, sunflowers, sesame seeds and other oil varieties.
Optimize quality and realize the unity of food security and modern and efficient agriculture
On the supply side, the deep-seated contradictions facing grain production are being solved.
In ningxia Helan County Daoyu Space Rural Ecological Tourism Park, General Secretary Xi Jinping praised: "There is not only 'primary production', but also 'secondary production' and 'tertiary production', and the efficiency of water resource utilization has been improved, and the added value has also risen." ”
In the Heilongjiang Agricultural Reclamation and Construction Sanjiang Administration Bureau, the local production of rice oil and soybean milk and other types of agricultural products are dazzling, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected one by one, emphasizing that the rice bowl of the Chinese must be firmly in his hands at all times.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for deepening the structural reform of the grain supply side: "To ensure food security, we must accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode and promote agricultural modernization, not only to achieve the stability of current grain output, but also to form new competitiveness, pay attention to sustainability, and enhance policy precision." "Give full play to their own advantages, seize the core competitiveness of grain, extend the grain industry chain, upgrade the value chain, build a supply chain, continuously improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agriculture, and realize the unity of food security and modern and efficient agriculture."
The "addition and subtraction" in a field has become the main theme of spring ploughing.
Production to the green, "tip of the tongue" is safer.
Food production is shifting towards green efficiency. As of last year, the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has grown negatively for five consecutive years, and the overall pass rate of agricultural product quality and safety monitoring has reached 97.6%. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs proposed that it will continue to do a good job in reducing the amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides and increasing efficiency.
Excellent quality, field with workshop.
The "big granary" is connected to the "big kitchen" to plant high-quality grain and effectively support the masses in high-quality life. As of now, 236 "China's good grain and oil" products have been selected, which has directly led to the increase of high-quality grain by more than 50 million tons.
The brand is brighter and the value chain is longer.
More and more high-quality grain and oil brands have come to the table of residents to meet diversified and personalized consumer needs. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a number of leading grain backbone enterprises with main business income of more than 10 billion yuan and well-known grain and oil brands with market competitiveness will be formed, and the increase in high-quality grain will increase by more than 10% per year.
The fields show a new atmosphere. All localities adhere to the structural reform of the agricultural supply side as the main line, promote the transformation of agriculture from production-oriented to quality-oriented, improve agricultural innovation, competitiveness, and total factor productivity, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of the supply system.
Adjust the system and prevent grain farmers from suffering economic losses
Adjusting the structure cannot reduce the peasants' interests.
"Food security is an important foundation for national security, and it is necessary to innovate grain production and operation models, optimize production technology measures, implement various support policies, protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, and strive to improve the efficiency of grain production."
"Realize that peasants should go hand in hand in producing grain and increasing their incomes, and that grain farmers should not suffer economic losses and that large grain-growing counties should not suffer financial losses";
"To develop rural industries, we must give prominence to the status of peasants as the main body and always put the protection of peasants' interests in the first place.";
Every sentence is full of the general secretary's sincere friendship with the peasant masses. Good policies continue to land in the fields, so that grain farmers have more head-to-head.
-- Strengthening policies and supporting the hearts of grain farmers.
Precise subsidies, technical guidance, open up sales channels... Various localities have introduced "combined fists" to give farmers stable expectations. This year, the agricultural and rural departments will coordinate the implementation of corn and soybean producer subsidies and rice subsidies, expand the rotation of cultivated land; set up an expert guidance group for soybean oilseed production capacity improvement projects; and compile and print 100,000 copies of soybean and corn strip composite planting guidelines, which have been issued to 16 provinces.
-- High quality and good price, and there is a driving force for growing grain.
High quality and good price, activate the enthusiasm of farmers to "optimize". The grain price formation mechanism has been gradually improved, and various regions and departments have actively cultivated diversified market entities to enter the market to purchase, deepen production and marketing cooperation, promote order acquisition, and create a pattern of "large market and large circulation".
-- "Dragon Head" takes the lead and leads the peasants to earn.
More and more "field nannies" have emerged, leading farmers to work and lead farmers to earn, and carry out professional socialized services through grain orders, land trusteeship, land circulation, etc., and include small farmers in the modern grain industry. At present, there are 2.23 million farmers' cooperatives registered in accordance with the law, driving nearly half of the country's peasant households, and more than 950,000 agricultural socialization service organizations.
Stepping on the footsteps of spring and riding on the warming east wind, spring ploughing from south to north is carried out in an orderly manner. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, go all out to grab the peasants, adjust the structure in a down-to-earth manner, and make new and greater contributions to stabilizing China's rice bowl!