Agricultural restructuring must first stabilize grain

Whenever the situation of grain production improves, some people always think that structural adjustment means reducing grain, and this thinking does not unify structural adjustment with the political, social and economic accounts of food security. Without food security, other security has lost its foundation. At any time, no matter how it is changed or adjusted, the grain production capacity and arable land cannot be reduced.

The central rural work conference held a few days ago made clear arrangements for accelerating agricultural modernization, calling for speeding up the transformation of the mode of agricultural development and deepening agricultural restructuring. This development requirement not only accurately grasps the actual state of China's agricultural development under the background of the new normal of economic development, but also points out the specific path of agricultural development how to adapt to the new normal and speed up the realization of agricultural modernization.

At present, the actual situation of agricultural development in China, on the whole, is the interaction between pressure and power, opportunities and challenges. On the one hand, the agricultural situation is improving year by year, creating conditions for comprehensively deepening the reform; on the other hand, the agricultural foundation is still weak, and the ability to resist various risks is limited; on the one hand, the total quality of agricultural products continues to improve; on the other hand, there is a growing contradiction between total quantity and structure, cost and benefit, production and environment. On the one hand, the level of agricultural technology and equipment and scientific and technological support has improved significantly, on the other hand, the lagging constraints of key technologies such as traditional mode of production, small-scale operation and seed industry have become more and more prominent. The fundamental way to solve these contradictions and difficulties is to promote agricultural modernization, and the specific path and practical means is to do a good job in the transformation of agricultural development mode and structural adjustment. It can be said that what kind of efforts to promote the transformation of the structure determines the pace of modern agriculture is fast and slow; what kind of path to promote the transformation of the way to adjust the structure, determines the agricultural development of what kind of road, what kind of fruit.

How to change the mode and adjust the structure? In the context of a continuous increase in grain production, one of the first problems encountered in structural adjustment is whether we should pay so close attention to grain production. The lesson of history tells us that whenever the situation of grain production improves, some people always think that structural adjustment is the adjustment and reduction of grain. In the late 1980s and late 1990s, China experienced two structural adjustments, when grain production increased for four consecutive years in the mid-1980s and bumper harvests from the mid-1990s to 1998. after these two consecutive increases in production, we have proposed structural adjustment, but due to the lack of adjustment ideas and practical operation, the two adjustments led to a decline in grain production, and finally the structural adjustment had to stop. Fall into the "air conditioner".

The lesson of history is worth pondering. The thinking of simply reducing grain production does not unify structural adjustment with the political, social and economic accounts of food security. On the one hand, food security is related to national security and social stability, and is the first priority for the development of modern agriculture. For a country with a large population like ours, without food security, other security will lose its foundation. At any time, no matter how it is changed or adjusted, grain production capacity and arable land cannot be reduced. On the other hand, even if calculated from the economic account, through the transformation of the mode of development and structural adjustment, the cost of grain production will be reduced and the output will rise, while the quality and varieties will continue to improve, and the production and processing will better meet the needs of the market. grain itself can also become a "big earner".

Of course, in the context of accelerating agricultural modernization, ensuring grain production capacity and stabilizing grain production under the requirements of changing the mode and adjusting the structure, it is not simply extensive production that consumes a large amount of soil and water resources and excessive application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides has a serious impact on the environment, but on the premise of improving the ability of sustainable development of grain, stabilize output and increase production capacity, and stabilize the overall stability of grain sown area. What is more, efforts should be made to improve the quality of cultivated land and strengthen scientific and technological support, so as to attach equal importance to quantity and quality, hide grain in the land and store grain in technology. At the same time, in accordance with the requirements of the national grain strategy of basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute safety of rations, agricultural production has been shifted from ensuring all and ensuring ownership in the past to ensuring key points and food rations, so as to provide a broader space for structural adjustment.

Therefore, the increase in grain production is not a reason for reducing grain production, but has created conditions and laid the foundation for the transformation of mode and structure adjustment, while the solid promotion of the transformation mode and structure adjustment has promoted the accelerated development of modern agriculture, further improved agricultural production technology, quality, and potential, and made agricultural industrial layout, regional layout, and product structure more scientific and reasonable.