Agricultural Reclamation Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture: achieve the market share of the seed industry in 5 years

"our main work every day is for vegetable seedlings, cutting and managing and protecting flower and vegetable seedlings, earning an average of 60 yuan a day." A worker who was carrying Flammulina velutipes petri dishes told reporters in the Ruyi Agricultural Ecological Park in the East-West Lake District of Wuhan, Hubei Province.

"this is an agricultural ecological park built by Hubei Agricultural Reclamation in recent years, mainly for vegetable breeding, but also has the function of tourism, and some greenhouses can be picked by tourists." Hu Chao, deputy director of the Hubei Land Reclamation Administration, said that the development of the seed industry in the reclamation area has many advantages, such as the concentration of land, easy transfer and easy promotion of advanced technology.

Hu Chao said: Hubei's land reclamation takes the seed industry as a breakthrough and combines nine state-owned farms with seed industry development advantages and core technology. to create a modern seed industry company, Hubei Agricultural Reclamation Lianfeng seed Industry Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., which integrates breeding, propagation, promotion, production, addition, and marketing. At present, the company has a seed production base of 70, 000 mu, and the seed production base under construction is 100000 mu.

"Grain is safe all over the world, planting and casting the cornerstone". As an important means of grain production, seed is the top priority to ensure food security. In recent years, with the rapid advance of China's agricultural modernization and the gradual opening of the agricultural market, many well-known multinational seed companies have seized the market, which has brought a great impact on the domestic seed industry.

As the "national team" of China's agriculture, land reclamation will continue to build the basic industry of seed industry and speed up the transformation and upgrading of seed industry while putting forward the construction of large international grain merchants.

The reporter learned from Heilongjiang Land Reclamation that Beidahuangkenfeng seed Company invested tens of millions of yuan to purchase modern corn seed emasculating and harvesting equipment, and invested 150 million yuan to build a processing center with an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons of corn seeds in Binxi seed Industrial Park, realizing mechanization and automation in the whole process of corn seed production and processing.

"only by firmly grasping the control of the seed industry can we firmly control the initiative in agricultural development and firmly hold the rice bowls of 1.3 billion people in our own hands." Wang Shoucong, director of the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said.

In August last year, China Land Reclamation and seed Industry Alliance was established in Jiansanjiang Farm in Heilongjiang Reclamation area. The establishment of the China Land Reclamation and seed Industry Alliance is an important measure for the land reclamation system to build an international grain merchant. The Agricultural Reclamation Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that it would take about five years to build a national seed industry aircraft carrier with a market capitalization of 30 billion yuan, sales income of 5 billion yuan and a profit of 1 billion yuan; to build a number of regional leading seed enterprises with sales income of more than 1 billion yuan and profits of 200 million yuan; agricultural reclamation grain crop seed production capacity, processing capacity, sales capacity and market share strive to reach 50% of the country.

In recent years, the reclamation areas have stepped up efforts to develop the seed industry, and achieved remarkable results. According to the report on the Development of China's Land Reclamation seed Industry released a few days ago, as of 2014, China's land reclamation seed industry has a seed production base of nearly 3 million mu and a crop extension area of 140.8932 million mu. In 2014, the agricultural reclamation seed industry produced 1.18 billion kg of seeds and sold 989 million kg of seeds, with sales reaching 6.066 billion yuan, covering 25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Gansu, Guangdong and Xinjiang.

At present, agricultural reclamation seeds have accounted for nearly 1/3 of the total seed commodities of grain crops in China, and have formed certain advantages in terms of industrial scale and market share, but there are also some problems in the agricultural reclamation seed industry, such as regional division, separate battles, small weakness, and so on. there is still a big gap compared with the international seed giants.

"in order to really compete with the international seed industry giants, it is necessary to have a development strategic plan with high recognition, wide pertinence, and strong maneuverability as the guidance, guide everyone to make a reasonable division of labor, develop their strengths, and gradually realize the optimal allocation of seed industry resources. transform the comparative advantage of each agricultural reclamation seed industry into the competitive advantage of the agricultural reclamation seed industry." Liu Xianhui, general manager of Beidahuangkenfeng seed Industry Co., Ltd., said: at present, the Land Reclamation seed Industry Alliance is drafting the National Strategic Plan for the Development of Land Reclamation seed Industry (2016-2020), which is expected to be released at the end of this year.

He Ziyang, an inspector of the Agricultural Reclamation Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the competition in the modern seed industry is the competition of science and technology and capital strength. At present, breeding has comprehensively entered the era of molecular breeding, multinational corporations are using transgenic, SPT, dihaploid, SNP detection and other technologies on a large scale, breeding shows the characteristics of high-throughput, large-scale, precision and other characteristics, which is changing the face of the seed industry. The centralized and rapid application of new technology requires that enterprises must become the main body of scientific and technological innovation, establish a commercial and industrial scientific research organization form suited to the rapid development of breeding technology, and cultivate world-class basic strength of breeding. "at present, there is a shortage of scientific, technological and financial personnel in agricultural reclamation and seed enterprises, and the corporate governance structure still needs to be improved. In order to achieve the rapid development of the land reclamation seed industry, we must aim at the international first-class seed enterprises to set development goals and constantly enhance their competitive strength. " He Ziyang said.