Seek a new breakthrough in promoting the transformation of agricultural development mode

The Fifth Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee proposed to vigorously promote agricultural modernization, speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development, and take the road of agricultural modernization with high output efficiency, product safety, resource conservation, and environment-friendly. This not only outlines the vision of agricultural development in 2020, but also points out the direction of agricultural development in the 13th five-year Plan. Changing the mode of agricultural development is the general requirement and main theme of modern agricultural development. at present and for a period of time in the future, seeking a new breakthrough in promoting the transformation of agricultural development mode has become the inevitable choice to realize agricultural modernization.

In recent years, China's modern agriculture has been accelerated, and great achievements have been made in agricultural development. Grain production has had bumper harvests for many years in a row, and other important agricultural products have also enjoyed bumper harvests, adequate supply, and stable prices, which have played a role in stabilizing prices, employment and society. However, various risks, challenges and structural contradictions are also accumulating, the two "hoops" of ecological environment and resource conditions are getting tighter and tighter, and the double squeeze of agricultural production cost "floor" and agricultural product price "ceiling" is getting heavier and heavier. The people's demand for diversified demand, quality and safety of agricultural products is getting higher and higher, and the pressure on agricultural supply, income and ecology is increasing. These phased development problems force agriculture to speed up the transformation of the mode of development.

To speed up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development is to promote agricultural development to shift from the main pursuit of quantitative growth to the equal emphasis on quantitative and qualitative benefits, from relying mainly on the consumption of material resources to relying on scientific and technological progress and improving the quality of labourers, from focusing on ecology and environment to paying attention to green circular and sustainable development, and from extensive management to intensive management. It can be said that changing the mode of agricultural development is not only related to producers, but also related to consumers; it not only benefits contemporary, but also benefits future generations, which not only grasps the lifeline of agricultural industry development, but also conforms to the expectations of the general public for modern agriculture.

More attention should be paid to optimizing and adjusting the structure to ensure efficient output. As an industry, agriculture must give full play to its comparative advantages in order to ensure high efficiency and competitiveness in both international and domestic markets. It is necessary to further optimize the regional layout of agriculture, form leading products and pillar industries with regional characteristics, create advantageous industrial belts for bulk agricultural products, and cultivate a number of specialized villages and towns with obvious characteristics, diverse types, and strong competitiveness. In grain production, we should pay attention to increasing production capacity and tapping potential, so as to hide grain in the land and technology, and ensure grain production when we need it. In non-grain production, it is necessary to take the market as the guide, open up the channel for the coordinated development of the planting and breeding industry, and form a new agricultural structure with both grain and feed and the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry. In the mode of operation, we should develop a variety of functions of agriculture, enhance the ecological value, leisure value and cultural value of agriculture, let new technologies, new industries and new business type drive the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and enhance the added value of the whole agricultural industry chain.

Pay more attention to the quality and safety of agricultural products to ensure "safety on the tip of the tongue". With the improvement of people's living standards, the public tends to "zero tolerance" to the quality and safety of agricultural products. In recent years, individual food safety incidents have proved that product safety is related to the rise and fall of an enterprise or even an industry. We must adhere to both "production" and "control" with both hands and hard hands. In terms of production, we will vigorously promote standardized production of livestock, fisheries, fruits and vegetables, and strive to create a number of agricultural standardized production bases and well-known brands of agricultural products. In terms of management, we should constantly strengthen supervision, step up efforts to improve the quality and safety standard system and monitoring and evaluation system of agricultural products, improve regulatory institutions and mechanisms, pay close attention to law enforcement supervision and centralized regulation, and comprehensively improve the quality and safety level of agricultural products.

Make more rational use of agricultural resources to ensure resource conservation. In order to alleviate the overstretched pressure on resources, excess inputs must be reduced. At present, we use chemical fertilizers, which account for 5% of the world's grain production, and the input of pesticides and water resources is also much higher than the world average. It is necessary to strictly control the total amount of agricultural water consumption and gradually reduce the total amount of chemical fertilizers and pesticides based on the principle of controlling quantity to improve efficiency and reducing quantity and substitution. It is necessary to speed up the promotion of clean production technologies and equipment such as scientific fertilization, safe drug use, green prevention and control, and water saving in farmland, improve the technical model of planting and breeding, and achieve conservation in resource utilization, clean production process, and recycling of waste resources.

Pay more attention to the protection of the agricultural ecological environment and ensure that the environment is friendly. As an intertwined process of economic reproduction and natural reproduction, the product of agriculture is green life, and its process is also the process of creating carbon sequestration, which is environmentally friendly. In order to reduce the "by-products" of pollution caused by resource abuse and over-exploitation, on the one hand, we should attach equal importance to protection and control, so that we do not owe new debts on resources and environment, and then gradually repay historical accounts, so that overdrawn agricultural resources and environment can be recuperated. On the other hand, it is necessary to vigorously develop environmentally friendly agricultural forms such as circular agriculture, ecological agriculture and intensive agriculture, and speed up the utilization of livestock and poultry manure, crop straw, agricultural film and other resources, so as to turn pollution sources into good resources and promote the sustainable development of agriculture.