2015 report card of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers": grain production ushered in "Twelve Lianfeng"

The year 2015, which is about to turn over, will leave a heavy ink mark in the development history of China's "three rural areas". Agriculture and rural areas continued to maintain a good momentum of development, grain production throughout the year ushered in "twelve consecutive bumper harvest", and new breakthroughs were continuously made in some fields, laying a solid foundation for the upcoming "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan".

Grain production ushered in "twelve consecutive abundant"

Seeing his own rice unloaded from the transport vehicle enter the sieving machine and slowly delivered to the newly built warehouse of the grain depot through the conveyor belt, Wei Hailong, a farmer from Chagan Village, Shengli Township, Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, showed a long-lost joy on his face: "Rice harvest, the state and protection price purchase, this year finally did not work in vain ah!"

According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total national grain output in 2015 reached 621.435 million tons (124.287 billion jin), an increase of 14.408 million tons (28.82 billion jin) over 2014, an increase of 2.4%. This is the twelfth consecutive year of bumper grain harvest since 2004.

"This year's grain harvest is due to the increase in sown area and the increase in yield per unit area." Zeng Yande, director of the Crop Production Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that this year the national grain planting area reached 170,010.7 million mu, an increase of more than 9 million mu over the previous year, an increase of 0.5%. The average yield of grain crops in China reached 365.5 kg per mu, an increase of 6.5 kg or 1.8 percent over last year.

The grain harvest is inseparable from the "full support" of various policies supporting agriculture and benefiting agriculture. This year, the central finance continued to strengthen support for agriculture and benefit agriculture, and timely allocated various subsidy funds such as direct grain subsidies and improved seed subsidies for 2015, thus stabilizing farmers 'income expectations for growing grain. At the same time, the agricultural planting structure continued to be optimized and adjusted, and the planting area of winter wheat, corn and other grains expanded. As a result of the expansion of sown area, grain production increased by about 6.7 billion jin, contributing 23.1% to grain production.

New Breakthroughs in Agricultural Mechanization

Autumn is the harvest season. However, in many fields in our country, farmers who harvest with sickles are rarely seen in the autumn season, replaced by large-scale agricultural machinery. Farmers are liberated from heavy physical labor and become "hands-off shopkeepers".

"In the past, one hectare of land was collected manually, and 12 people were sent to work for one day, and the labor cost was 2200 yuan. Now agricultural machinery can be completed in one hour, and it is only 1000 yuan when it is delivered to the door. The common people don't have to do anything. They wait for the harvest." Jiang Enkai, a Jilin elm farmer who runs a professional agricultural machinery cooperative, said.

Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture has widely implemented the "one-stop" compound operation mode, and the operation efficiency and operation quality have been significantly improved. The mechanization rate of rice planting exceeds 40%, the mechanical harvest rate of "three summers" wheat exceeds 92%, and the mechanical harvest rate of "three autumns" corn reaches 63%, an increase of 5 percentage points compared with the same period last year. The comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvest in the whole year exceeded 62%, providing strong equipment support for ensuring national food security and enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity.

Leisure agriculture enters the fast lane

Although winter arrives, Wenfeng Town of Wuxi County in Qinba Mountain Area is still beautiful. Ruan Qinglong, a 53-year-old villager from Sanbao Village, is busy drying quilts in the yard while the weather is warm. In front of his house and behind his house, hundreds of acres of osmanthus trees fluttered in the wind. Every weekend, a large number of tourists come to vacation, then his family's 50 rooms become farmhouse entertainment, relying on this to have more than 300,000 yuan of income every year.

The vast rural areas are not only the home of the peasants 'production and life, but also a good place for all the people to look at the mountains and see the water and remember their homesickness. In recent years, China's leisure agriculture has entered the fast lane of development, which not only promotes farmers 'income increase, but also provides support and momentum for the agricultural rural economy to move towards the "middle and high end".

With the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 11 departments issued land use, fiscal and taxation support policies, promote agricultural areas into scenic spots, pastoral parks, farm houses into guest rooms, labor into sports, products into commodities, leisure agriculture has made great progress. Data from the Ministry of Agriculture show that in 2015, there will be 1.8 million leisure agricultural entities in China, with an estimated income of 350 billion yuan, an increase of more than 10%. Leisure agriculture attracted 1.1 billion tourists, benefiting 33 million farmers and effectively promoting farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich.

Agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control started the battle

Behind the successive increase in grain production in China, it is inseparable from the important role of chemical fertilizer, pesticide and other factors input. At the same time, agricultural non-point source pollution has also become one of the main sources of environmental pollution, and it is imperative to accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode.

Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture has focused on the goal of "one control, two reductions and three basics" to further promote the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution. A national agricultural non-point source pollution monitoring network consisting of 273 farmland nitrogen and phosphorus losses, 210 farmland plastic film residues, 25 livestock and poultry breeding waste discharge positioning monitoring points and 20,000 farmland investigation points has been preliminarily established to continuously promote the normalization and institutionalization of agricultural non-point source pollution monitoring.

Monitoring is for better prevention. At the beginning of 2015, China launched the zero-growth action of chemical fertilizer and pesticide use; comprehensively popularized soil testing and formula fertilization technology, and promoted an area of 1.4 billion mu; deeply implemented green prevention and control, established 150 national-level green prevention and control demonstration zones, and eliminated 33 highly toxic pesticides for the sixth time; carried out the pilot construction of integration of specialized unified prevention and control of crop diseases and insect pests, and established 218 demonstration bases.

A series of "combination boxing" in-depth implementation, so that China's agricultural non-point source pollution control work has made new breakthroughs, towards the goal of green agriculture.