The Ministry of Agriculture carries out the identification of national "two-hybrid" seed production base.

The Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a circular and decided to carry out the identification of national hybrid rice and hybrid maize seed production bases. According to a person in charge of the seed Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, this move is aimed at implementing the spirit of the 2013 Central Committee document No. 1 and the National Development Plan of Modern crop seed Industry (2012-2020), strengthening the construction, management and protection of crop seed production bases, improving the scale, mechanization, standardization and intensive level of seed production, and enhancing the guarantee capacity of crop seed supply.

The circular points out that priority will be given to production bases with the following conditions: the natural environment for seed production of hybrid rice and hybrid corn is superior, the seed production infrastructure is relatively perfect, and there are no quarantine pests in the region; the seed production areas of national hybrid rice seed production bases in counties (cities, districts) and prefectures (cities) have reached more than 30, 000 mu and 150000 mu respectively in the past three years. In the national hybrid maize seed production base, the seed production area of counties (cities, districts) and prefectures (cities) has reached more than 50, 000 mu and 350000 mu respectively in the past three years, and the seed management institutions of the localities (cities) and counties (districts and cities) of the base are sound. Seed production technology and quality management are standardized, and no major responsibility accidents for seed production have occurred in the past three years. The local government has plans to support the development of the seed production industry, and has formulated policies and measures to support the construction of the seed production base and maintain the production order of the base, and the production order of the base is good; the production base has large and medium-sized seed enterprises to carry out seed production all the year round, and a large-scale base is formed by means of land transfer. All agricultural administrative departments at the county (city, district) and prefecture (city) level that meet the requirements may declare at the same time.

The circular stresses that the national crop seed production base is subject to dynamic management. The validity period of the confirmation of the base is 5 years. After the expiration of the validity period, it shall be re-recognized according to the declaration procedure of the confirmation of the base. The Ministry of Agriculture shall conduct irregular spot checks on the identified bases within the period of validity, and conduct a mid-term evaluation. Those who fail to pass the spot check and mid-term evaluation shall be ordered to make rectification within a time limit, and those who are still unqualified shall be delisted. Where, through the identified national crop seed production base, there are fraudulent practices in the declaration, no longer have the conditions for seed production or are unqualified in the mid-term evaluation, and incidents of quarantine pests and malignant seeds occur, the phenomenon of unlicensed production, license infringement, private resale of parents (original seeds) and seeds produced in the base seriously disturbs the market order and fails to submit production files as required, and has one of the above situations. The qualification of national crop seed production base shall be cancelled, and the national crop seed production base shall not be declared within 5 years.