Do not relax and do a good job in wheat production to ensure the absolute safety of rations

On October 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium on wheat production and development in the Huang-Huai-Hai region in Hebei Province. Yu Xinrong, Vice Minister of Agriculture, stressed that the central leadership attached great importance to wheat production, reflecting a firm determination to ensure the absolute safety of food rations. Agricultural departments at all levels should do a good job of wheat production with a high degree of self-consciousness, firm confidence and effective measures. To make new contributions to securing the rice bowls of the Chinese people and ensuring the absolute safety of rations.

Yu Xinrong pointed out that wheat is an important variety of food rations and must be based on domestic self-sufficiency; the Huang-Huai-Hai region is a dominant producing area of wheat and must have the courage to shoulder heavy responsibilities. In order to promote the stable development of wheat production, we should not only sum up the successful experience of popularization, but also pay attention to solving the problems such as the restriction of water resources, the influence of disasters, the low benefit, the shallower plough layer, the large sowing rate and the low seed supply rate, so as to promote the sustained and stable yield increase of wheat.

Yu Xinrong stressed that stabilizing the area is an important prerequisite for the development of wheat production, and increasing per unit yield is the fundamental way. For some time to come, in accordance with the general idea of "stabilizing the area, focusing on per unit yield, improving quality, reducing cost, increasing efficiency, increasing investment and enhancing capacity", we should strive to stabilize the sown area, strengthen policy propaganda and information guidance, arrange the planting structure, guide farmers to plant good wheat, and strive to stabilize the wheat area in five provinces at about 240 million mu. Focus on strengthening infrastructure construction, building a number of high-standard farmland for drought and waterlogging, improving the quality of cultivated land, strengthening agricultural machinery and equipment, enhancing the ability to resist natural disasters, and promoting scientific and technological innovation. speed up the breeding of a number of new varieties resistant to cold, drought, disease and heat damage, integrate a number of regional and standardized high-yield and high-efficiency technical models, and provide technical support for sustained and stable wheat production. Efforts should be made to promote disaster prevention and reduction, do a good job in the four key links of fine land preparation, appropriate sowing, disease and pest prevention and control, and "one spray and three prevention", so as to take the initiative to prevent disasters, fight disasters scientifically, and effectively reduce the impact of disasters; focus on promoting large-scale operation, speed up the cultivation of new business entities, build a new management and service system, and improve the scale, organization and specialization of wheat production.

At present, it is the critical period of autumn harvest and autumn sowing, and the farming season is tight and the task is heavy. Yu Xinrong demanded that agricultural departments at all levels should put autumn and winter planting production at the top of the current agricultural and rural work, organize meticulously, intensify efforts, and complete the task of autumn and winter sowing with high standards and high quality; take effective measures, pay close attention to the implementation of the area, pay close attention to the quality of sowing, pay close attention to the management before winter, strive to increase the area than the previous year, ensure that strong seedlings survive the winter safely, and consolidate the foundation for next year's summer grain harvest.