The "successful report of the first year" of the new national food security strategy

According to the national grain production data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on December 4, the country's total grain output in 2014 was 1.2142 trillion jin, an increase of 10.3 billion jin over 2013, and grain production had another bumper harvest.

The bumper harvest is a celebratory news for Li Zhanshuang, Lizhuang Village, Matou Town, Dongming County, Shandong Province, but the harvest is not calm. It rained continuously when the corn was about to be harvested, and some corn got bacterial wilt, but fortunately, the technical guidance was timely, and the final result was not dangerous. "Farmers don't grow grain as well as they want, as if they don't have to worry about it when they plant it. There is also technology in it."

This grain farmer on the plain of southwestern Shandong is a micro sample of China's current grain production, ranging from the grain policy at the national strategic level to the key points of fertilization techniques at the first leaf, all projected on his more than ten mu of land.

The construction of a national food security strategy sends a strong signal of attaching importance to agriculture and grasping grain.

This year is the first year for the full implementation of the national food security strategy under the new situation. The new national food security strategy of "giving priority to us, having a foothold at home, ensuring production capacity, moderate import, and supporting by science and technology" has become the main line of grain production throughout the year.

At the end of last year, while China's grain production increased for ten years in a row and climbed to a new high, some different voices about "too much grain" and "grain does not need to be grown by ourselves" continued to ferment. In the post-"ten consecutive growth" era, has the national food security strategy changed? How should the agricultural sector guarantee grain? How should the local government grasp the grain? How should farmers grow grain?

However, these puzzles did not last long. During the Central Rural work Conference at the end of 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping made it clear that Chinese people's rice bowls should be firmly in their own hands at all times. Our rice bowls should be mainly filled with Chinese food. Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that it is necessary to plan the national food security strategy under the new situation and build a more stable and reliable national food security system. The No. 1 document of the CPC Central Committee this year proposed that it is necessary to step up efforts to build a national food security strategy under the new situation. This not only sends a signal, but also strengthens the confidence to reap a bumper harvest.

The national food security strategy under the new situation has set the tone and pointed out the direction for doing a good job of grain production at present and for some time to come. Among them, "basic self-sufficiency of grain and absolute safety of rations" is the basic idea and strategic bottom line of China's food security. On the other hand, the twenty words of "giving priority to us, having a foothold at home, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and supporting by science and technology" are the fundamental orientation and realization way of China's grain production in the next step: on the basis of always adhering to us as the main body and gaining a foothold at home, we should grasp the strategic balance point, import agricultural products appropriately, and make good use of two kinds of resources and two markets. In the mode of grain production, we should take ensuring production capacity as the goal and strengthen scientific and technological support.

"to implement the national food security strategy under the new situation, we must always do a good job in grain production, further clarify the priorities for ensuring national food security, rationally allocate resources, and concentrate our efforts on preserving the most basic and important ones first." Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu stressed.

This year's grain figures provide an excellent "first-year success report" for the country's new strategy for food security. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the national grain sown area this year is 1.691 billion mu, an increase of 0.7% over 2013, of which the grain sown area is 1.419 billion mu, an increase of 0.9%. The country's total grain output was 1.2142 trillion jin, an increase of 0.9% over 2013, of which the total grain output was 1.11454 trillion jin, an increase of 0.8%. At the high starting point of grain growth for a decade in a row, high climbing and high plate protection were achieved, and the results were not easy.

Strengthen policy guidance and stimulate farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain

In the direction of Ming, the policy is stable. In the first year of the implementation of the national food security strategy under the new situation, some policies of attaching importance to agriculture and grasping grain, which have been proved to be effective in practice for many years, continue to play an incentive role. these policies vertically include prenatal, mid-production, and post-natal policies. horizontally covering all aspects of different grain-producing areas and different crop varieties has pushed this year's total grain output to a new high.

Since the beginning of this year, the central government has continued to issue a series of policies to strengthen and benefit farmers, and the "four subsidies" for agriculture have continued to increase on the basis of more than 160 billion yuan last year, with the focus on new types of operators such as large grain growers, family farms and farmers' cooperatives; continue to increase incentives to major grain-producing counties and mobilize the enthusiasm for production in the main producing areas We will properly implement the state's minimum purchase price and temporary purchase and storage policy, keep the price level of agricultural products reasonable, promote farmers to grow grain and increase their income, and let farmers love to grow grain and grow good grain.

As the department in charge of grain production, the Ministry of Agriculture has made full efforts to implement the national food security strategy under the new situation. In January this year, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a special notice on doing a good job in grain production and ensuring national food security. Zeng Yande, director of the planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the Ministry of Agriculture will earnestly enhance its sense of responsibility and will not relax its efforts to do a good job in grain production. We will step up efforts and strengthen measures to promote the stable development of grain production from the aspects of policy implementation, cultivated land protection and quality construction, scientific and technological services, new business entities, disaster prevention and mitigation, and responsibility implementation.

The central policy is strong, and various localities have issued many supporting policies. 1.3 billion yuan for subsidies for wheat, rape, and other improved varieties in Anhui Province was allocated to cities and counties in March. Zhang Bang of Shaanxi Province announced that 3 million yuan for the first batch of subsidies for the purchase of agricultural machinery could meet the needs of farmers for the purchase of agricultural machinery. Jiangxi Province will distribute 4.109 billion yuan in direct grain subsidies and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural materials and 888 million yuan in central subsidies for improved varieties to households before the end of March.

Clear policy guidance, clear market signals and stable income increase expectations have fully mobilized farmers' enthusiasm for production. "the national policy is good, and all kinds of subsidies give real benefits to grain farmers and make them secure in growing grain!" Sheng Lianying, a villager of Xinying Village, Nanzheng County, Shaanxi Province, expressed the heartfelt wishes of the grain growers.

Pay close attention to scientific and technological services to promote new breakthroughs in high-level protection of grain

From winter to spring and from summer to autumn, the Ministry of Agriculture's dedication to every inch of grain field and penny-pinching for every grain run through every link of grain production throughout the year.

In spring ploughing season, major diseases and pests such as wheat stripe rust, scab and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum are recurrent, which seriously threatens the safety of grain and oil production in summer. The Ministry of Agriculture has launched a campaign to prevent diseases and pests in spring and win a bumper harvest of grain and oil in summer, requiring the implementation of the subsidy policy of "one spray and three prevention" of wheat and the implementation of subsidy programs for the prevention and control of major crop diseases and insect pests to minimize the losses caused by diseases and insect pests.

"Seedling fields with stagnant water should clear ditches and manage soil moisture as soon as possible and drain open fields. After the temperature picks up steadily, it is necessary to uncover the ventilated seedlings at both ends of the seedling box in time, especially when the temperature is high. " On March 31, the Ministry of Agriculture urgently issued the "Technical guidance for early Rice in South China to deal with rainstorm Weather", aiming at the adverse impact of the first round of large-scale heavy precipitation on early rice production in southern China since February 28. Scientific and meticulous guidance was given. This is the 19th technical guidance issued by the Ministry of Agriculture since this spring.

In mid-July, during the main flood season, the China Meteorological Administration predicted that there would be an El Ni ñ o event of more than moderate intensity that year, and the task of resisting the disaster and winning a bumper harvest was arduous. The Ministry of Agriculture has launched the "Action of strengthening Service Science to fight disasters and seize bumper harvests of Autumn Grain", calling for strengthening classified guidance, promoting scientific disaster prevention, and taking promoting growth, promoting early maturity, preventing droughts and floods, preventing high temperature and heat damage, preventing low temperature cold damage, and preventing diseases and insect pests as the technical path, make every effort to do a good job in the implementation of disaster prevention and mitigation measures.

On August 2, in Wugong County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, unwatered corn was only knee-high, with curled leaves and basically no harvest. Since mid-July, high temperature and little rain have continued in most areas north of the Yangtze River, and drought in some areas has continued to develop. The Ministry of Agriculture urgently dispatched eight drought relief working groups to Henan, Shaanxi, Anhui and other provinces to go deep into the production line of the hardest-hit areas, investigate and understand the drought situation on the spot, assess the impact of drought on agriculture and animal husbandry production, and work with local agricultural departments to formulate technical guidance on drought resistance according to the occurrence of the disaster and the growth process of different crops.

According to the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the average per unit yield of grain crops this year is 359 kg / mu, an increase of 0.56 kg / mu or 0.2% over the previous year. In view of the serious disaster in some areas this year, especially when the northern region has been hit by a "stuck neck drought," this is a per unit yield answer that we should be completely proud of, and it reflects the important role of "human efforts" in grain production. It also tests the correctness of the current work mode and road of "attaching importance to agriculture and grabbing grain".

Year after year, the land does not rest, and farmers do not have holidays, and the same is true for tens of thousands of agricultural workers struggling on fertile fields. The smile of last year's bumper harvest has not faded, and farming in the coming year will follow one after another. this is hard work and infinite hope.