Improve the agricultural information monitoring and early warning system as soon as possible

Our reporter Qiao Jinliang reported: what is the prospect of agriculture? What is the significance of announcing the production, consumption, prices and trade trends of major agricultural products at the China Agricultural Outlook Conference? Xu WHO, secretary general of the Market early warning expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and director of the Institute of Agricultural Information of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, gave an interview to the Economic Daily on relevant issues during the 2015 China Agricultural Outlook Conference.

Xu WHO said that the agricultural outlook is a regulatory means to study and judge the changes in the supply and demand situation of the agricultural product market for a period of time in the future, and to guide agricultural production, consumption and trade activities by sending market signals. It is a common practice in developed countries to hold an agricultural outlook conference and issue an agricultural outlook report. The United States has held the 91st Agricultural Outlook Conference since 1923, and issued an outlook report every year, effectively mastering the right to say the pricing of international agricultural products; the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development have jointly held the 10th Agricultural Outlook Conference, which has a far-reaching impact on the global agricultural product market.

"China is a large country in the production and consumption of agricultural products, and there is an urgent need to strengthen the voice of the international market and safeguard the core interests of agriculture. The regular release of agricultural outlook reports has become an important means to highlight the" great power effect ". The construction of China's agricultural information monitoring and early warning system has stepped into the track of professional development since 2002. This agricultural outlook activity is carried out on the basis of years of research and exploration, and is an important measure to adapt to the internationalization, informationization, and market-oriented development of agriculture. " Xu Shiwei said: to carry out the prospect of China's agriculture, we should not only learn from international advanced experience, but also be in line with China's agricultural conditions. Through five to 10 years of efforts, it is necessary to establish an agricultural information monitoring and early warning system with the core data monitoring, analysis and early warning, information release, and information services of producers and operators as the core, so as to continuously improve the ability of agricultural management and services. to enhance the ability of sustained and healthy development of agricultural and rural economy. In addition, it is necessary to speed up the improvement of agricultural information monitoring and statistical mechanism, agricultural information analysis and early warning mechanism and agricultural monitoring information release mechanism.