Ministry of Agriculture: promoting modern agricultural demonstration areas and rural reform pilot areas

On May 4, it was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that on April 30, the Department of Industrial policies and regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture announced policies and measures for deepening rural reform, developing modern agriculture and increasing farmers' income in 2015, including the construction of modern agricultural demonstration zones and the construction of pilot areas for rural reform.

National modern agricultural demonstration zone construction support policies include further increasing support for the construction of national modern agricultural demonstration zone, forming a joint force of financial funds, infrastructure investment, financial capital and other funds to support the development of the demonstration area. First, we will continue to implement the policy of "substituting awards for compensation", expand the scope of awards and subsidies, and allocate 10 million yuan in funds for "substituting awards for compensation" for demonstration areas with strong investment integration, practical innovative measures, good development of cooperative organizations, upgrading of leading industries, and obvious increase in farmers' income. we will support and encourage demonstration areas to accelerate innovation in agricultural systems and mechanisms. The second is to allocate 600 million yuan in capital construction investment in the central budget to increase support for the construction of standard farmland for ensuring harvest by drought and waterlogging in the demonstration area, with an investment of not less than 1500 yuan per mu, of which 1200 yuan is the central quota subsidy. Third, coordinate and increase financial support to the demonstration zone, promote the demonstration zone to improve the agricultural financing service system, and strive to ensure that the loan balance of financial institutions such as the State Development Bank, the Agricultural Development Bank of China, and the Postal savings Bank of China for the construction of the demonstration zone this year is not less than 30 billion yuan.

The supporting policies for the construction of the rural reform experimental area include: the work of the rural reform experimental area in 2015 will focus on the in-depth implementation of the central government's decision on continuing to deepen rural reform, focus on starting and implementing the second batch of rural reform experimental tasks, deepening the reform and exploration of the first batch of experimental areas, strengthening the transformation and popularization of rural reform experimental results, improving the working mechanism, strengthening system construction, and improving management services. Efforts should be made to deepen the reform of the rural land system, improve the agricultural support and protection system, establish a modern rural financial system, deepen the reform of the rural collective property rights system, and improve the rural governance mechanism. strive to form a number of experiences that can be replicated and popularized.

Industry insiders said that according to statistics, there are 283 agricultural demonstration zones in the country, dotted in various regional categories and various topography, covering a total area of 1.27 million square kilometers, accounting for 13% of the country's land area. In terms of leading industries, the total number of demonstration areas in 13 major grain producing provinces has reached 173, accounting for about 60%. Through national policy support, the late modern agricultural demonstration areas and reform pilot areas will play an important leading role in grain production and the exploration of new models in rural areas.