How to replace "China Core" in China's Grass seed Industry

In the process of adjusting the structure and transformation, the area of artificial grass planting in China will continue to increase. In 2020, it will reach 350 million mu, the area of high-quality forage seeds will reach more than 60%, the demand for grass seeds will reach 1 million tons, and the demand for high-quality cultivated forage seeds will reach 600000 tons.

At present, China's grass seed industry is still very weak, and the construction of high-quality artificial grassland basically depends on imports, of which 80% of forage grass species and 98% of lawn grass are imported.

Why does China's grass seed industry rely too much on imports, and how can China's grass seed industry be replaced with "China Core"? on August 1st, the Grass Branch of China Animal Husbandry Association and Mengcao Company jointly launched the "2015 Modern Grass seed Industry Development Summit Forum" to find the answer for the recovery of local grass.

It is necessary to establish an integrated mechanism of "breeding, reproduction and promotion".

For a long time, grass seed production in China has not formed a mature and effective seed breeding system, the breeders of new varieties are out of touch with seed producers, and most of the new varieties come from scientific research institutes. The evaluation criteria for breeders are not closely combined with the results of market promotion. After the successful cultivation of new varieties, there is a lack of motivation and mechanism for improved variety breeding.

"the system, mechanism and policy of the grass seed industry, which is the basis for the development of the grass industry, need to be further solved." Kui Xujiang, deputy director of the National Animal Husbandry General Station, said. At present, China's grass seed industry is facing several major problems: weak scientific and technological strength, lack of scientific research teams and talents; although it is a large country of germplasm resources, the genetic characteristics of germplasm are unclear, the breeding means are single, and the competitiveness of breeding varieties is poor; the purpose of breeding is not for market promotion, lack of commercial breeding and breeding and promotion of integrated seed production enterprises and other problems.

Chen Gu, general manager of Bailu International Grass Industry Co., Ltd., also said: "the national grass seed industry has not yet straightened out the mechanism of breeding and breeding, there is a lack of commercial breeders, and the communication mechanism between scientists and enterprises is not smooth. Breeding indicators tend to pay more attention to resistance while ignoring seed yield, rather than well docking with market demand."

The enterprise should be the main body of the native grass to occupy the market. According to Duan Ruixia, general manager of Inner Mongolia Hexinyuan Mengcao drought Resistance Greening Co., Ltd., Mengcao proposed an integrated partnership mechanism of "industry-university-research" in the grass seed industry, which can mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific research, entrepreneurs and related parties through the partnership mechanism. so that all participants can share the fruits of development, so as to stimulate industrial vitality and boost industrial momentum. At present, Mongolian grass has set up a scientific research platform to meet the needs of "integration of breeding, propagation and promotion", and has built a grassland wild plant germplasm resource bank, including 1 general bank and 8 sub-banks, totaling more than 1600 kinds of grassland plant germplasm resources. nine research institutes have been set up for different types of grasslands, with a total area of more than 120000 mu, making it the largest grass seed breeding base in China.

Variety management should be standardized

The grass seeds produced in our country are lack of system guarantee, grade identification and label restriction, resulting in market seed genetic confusion, unclear source, no guarantee of brand, low qualified rate of grass species in market circulation, and unable to trace the source if there is a problem.

Li Qingfeng, a professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, explained that variety registration announces the advent of a new "biological product", while seed approval ensures that the variety quality of the new product is guaranteed in the further production process. In seed production and flow, quality control should be done in three links, that is, variety registration in the stage of variety cultivation, seed approval in the stage of production and propagation, and seed inspection in the link of mobile sales.

Wang Yanrong, a professor at Lanzhou University, believes that we should start grass seed DUS testing as soon as possible, strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of breeders, promote the improvement of grass breeding ability, establish a seed certification system as soon as possible, strengthen the construction of seed quality inspection centers, and expand inspection business.

How to create a good environment for fair competition? Lu Xinshi, president of the Grass Branch of China Animal Husbandry Association, believes that through the establishment of a labeling system, the genetic registration, quality grade, production source base and seed authenticity of seed production can be determined. On this basis, a comprehensive approval system for seed production can be gradually realized to ensure that the varieties in circulation in the market are real, the quality is in line with genetic requirements, and the quality is in line with standards. Responsibility can be traced back.

The development of grass seed industry needs more social capital.

A person in charge of the company said: "the production level of grass seeds in our country is still relatively low, and when we need to plant in a large area, it is difficult to produce so many seeds. When we want to plant, we do not have so many seeds, so we can only rely on imported varieties."

Liu Fuyuan, Technical Director of Chengdu Daye: "Enterprises not only have intelligent brains, but also show our muscles." At present, the distribution of grass seed production in China is not scientific and reasonable, production enterprises do things in their own way, scattered teams, lack of leading enterprises, lack of integration strength, lack of core competitiveness, each seed enterprise is struggling while producing.

In addition, compared with food crops, grass seed production is marginalized, available land is barren, the planting environment is difficult, the basic production conditions are simple, the capital construction investment is large, and the production cost is too high, which seriously affect the production enthusiasm of grass seed enterprises.

The grass seed industry urgently needs capital injection to carry out industry merger and reorganization and equipment upgrading.

There are entrepreneurs confused, grass seed industry is a very small industry, 2 billion yuan market, if calculated according to 10% profit, it is only 200 million profit. It's such a big market right now, what's the point of investing in it? The seed industry is the upstream thing, the chip of the whole industry, what's the point of voting for him?

With regard to how enterprises choose capital, Gong Yanru, general manager of Zhejiang Hecheng Huizhi, believes that industrial financial funds can solve many problems. In fact, some sources of funds are related to the capital market, such as listing; in other ways, there is also venture capital, which must be equity investment, that is to say, becoming a shareholder of the enterprise.

Guo Kaihua of Haier Industrial Finance believes that although it is a single thing to provide financial help for a certain business, such as importing equipment that previously could not be bought. There are other ways to obtain funds, including government investment, which can be combined to solve the current shortage of funds. Appropriate funds can be obtained for merger and reorganization among enterprises, upgrading of industrial equipment, and infrastructure construction.