Ministry of Agriculture: ensure 100% self-sufficiency of rations

A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "guidance on further adjusting and optimizing the Agricultural structure." in response to a reporter's question, the relevant person in charge of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture said that the "opinion" put forward the bottom line and goal of "ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grain." the bottom line and goal of "stabilizing grain production and grain production capacity, achieving basic grain self-sufficiency and absolute safety of rations". At the same time, the "opinion" regards the development of grain production as one of the key tasks of structural adjustment.

The responsible person said that the agricultural structural adjustment in the mid-1980s made grain production stagnant for five consecutive years; in the structural adjustment in the late 1990s, due to the relaxation of grain production, the area of cultivated land and grain sown area continued to decrease, and grain production declined continuously.

Summing up and learning from the experiences and lessons of the first two rounds, the opinion clearly emphasized at the beginning that "further adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure does not mean relaxing grain production". We must jump out of the either-or mindset of grain production and agricultural structure adjustment, take the stability of grain production as the premise, take the improvement of grain production capacity as the foundation, and build a solid and reliable national food security system. To ensure that the rice bowls of the Chinese people are firmly in their own hands at all times, to find a new way of coordinated development and mutual promotion between the two, and put forward the bottom line and goal of "ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grain and achieving 100% self-sufficiency in grain rations", "stabilizing grain production and grain production capacity, and achieving basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute safety in rations".

At the same time, the "opinion" regards the development of grain production as one of the key tasks of structural adjustment, and proposes to adjust and optimize the realization path to ensure national food security by focusing on "storing grain in the land, storing grain in technology, and storing grain in the people." and made detailed arrangements. In short, to further adjust and optimize the agricultural structure is by no means to relax grain production, but to make the rice bowl more and more solid by adjusting and optimizing the agricultural structure.