30% of the area of corn in the country is going to be "changed from grain to feed" into this round structure.

In Shandong, a major grain-growing province, more than 80% of the grain corn is used as livestock feed, while the country's feed grain still depends on 100 million tons of imports each year. Under the "food security" strategy, livestock feed has been incorporated into policy considerations.

In a recent reply to the proposal of this year's "two sessions" of the CPPCC National Committee, the Ministry of Agriculture said it would prepare a "sickle bend" corn structure adjustment plan (2016-2020) to adjust the corn planting structure in the region.

It is understood that the "sickle bend" area includes the northeast cold area, the northern agro-pastoral ecotone, the northwest wind and sand arid area, the Taihang Mountain area and the southwest stone desert area, and the perennial corn planting area accounts for about 1 inch of the country.

When investigating the adjustment of corn planting structure in Inner Mongolia, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong said that the four provinces and regions in Northeast China will strive to achieve the goal of reducing the corn area by more than 10 million mu next year.

Corn becomes the key to this round of structural adjustment.

Agricultural production is suffering from overdevelopment and long-term overdraft, and "changing the mode and adjusting the structure" is the only way out.

On the one hand, the multiple cropping index of agricultural resources is high, there is no wasteland in the four seas, and the utilization of resources is getting tighter and tighter; on the other hand, agricultural non-point source pollution is aggravated, agro-ecosystem is degraded, and the carrying capacity of ecological environment is getting closer and closer to the limit. Agricultural development is facing the two "hoops" of resource conditions and ecological environment, so it is urgent and urgent to speed up the transformation of the mode of development and achieve sustainable development.

In this round of agricultural structure adjustment, the adjustment of corn has become the key.

Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said that the adjustment of corn planting structure is the key and focus of this round of agricultural structure adjustment, the focus of corn planting structure adjustment is the northeast region, and the four provinces and regions in the northeast will reduce the corn planting area next year.

"in fact, from the broad definition of 'food security', animal husbandry feed must be taken into consideration. now the diet structure has been greatly adjusted, and residents' consumption of meat, eggs and milk is higher. This means that a large amount of feed is needed," a source from the Ministry of Agriculture told reporters. "at present, there is still a large feed gap in China, through the adjustment of corn planting structure. The development of silage corn that can be used as feed is conducive to the overall development of the planting and breeding industry.

The reporter learned that according to the deployment, the four provinces and regions in Northeast China will reduce the area of corn by more than 10 million mu next year, and the specific direction will be to reduce corn in high latitudes and arid areas, expand the planting of drought-tolerant miscellaneous grains and beans, give consideration to grain and feed, and develop silage corn, reduce corn planting in rocky desertification areas, develop fruit, tea and forage grass, and change corn even as grain and bean rotation.

30% of the corn fields in the country need to be reduced.

In the practice of adjusting the planting structure of corn in Shandong from "grain to feed", it used to be that two mu of grain corn field could raise a cow, but now it is one cow per mu after silage corn planting.

Statistics show that 80% of grain corn, 15% of wheat and 45% of crop straw in Shandong province are used as livestock and poultry feed, while the total amount of nutrients and production efficiency provided by this indirect production mode are significantly lower than those of direct production of forage grass.

"changing grain to feed" has become a direction of maize planting structure adjustment. In the planning of the Ministry of Agriculture, 30% of the corn planting area in the country has been brought into the scope of adjustment.

In the reply to proposal No. 3451 (Agriculture and Water Conservancy No.297) of the third session of the 12th CPPCC National Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture, it was mentioned that "experts are being organized to prepare the maize structure adjustment plan for the" sickle bend "area (2016-2020), while the" sickle bend "area includes the northeast cool area, the northern agro-pastoral ecotone, the northwest wind and sand arid area, the Taihang Mountain area and the southwest rocky desertification area. The perennial corn planting area accounts for about 1x3 of the whole country.

In fact, the "sickle bend" area mentioned in the reply to the proposal is also the first regional division proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, which is not only a reference to technical terms in steel processing, but also a visual description of the region.

At the meeting held on August 28 to implement corn structural adjustment in some provinces, 13 provinces, including Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, participated. According to industry estimates, the corn sown area of these 13 provinces accounted for about 70% of the country's corn sown area.

Analyst Jian Min believes that the reply to the CPPCC proposal has further clarified and narrowed the scope of the corn area reduction area.