Minister of Agriculture: farmers can convert their cultivated land into non-agricultural land, never non-agricultural land.

The 19th issue of Qiushi in 2014 published an article signed by Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, which pointed out that the national food security strategy under the new situation should be fully implemented.

The article points out that it is necessary to resolutely hold on to the lifeline of cultivated land. This is the lifeblood of national food security. Cultivated land is the lifeblood of grain production, and it is necessary to ensure both quantity and quality. Although the second national land survey shows that the book number of cultivated land has increased, there is still so much cultivated land and so much production capacity, which has not actually increased. In this regard, we must have a clear "red line consciousness", the red line of cultivated land should be strictly guarded, farmers can be non-agricultural, and cultivated land must not be non-agricultural. It is necessary to take strong measures to keep the area of cultivated land basically stable, and to delimit permanent basic farmland to ensure that "there is land to grow." We will concentrate on adding 100 billion jin of grain production capacity planning, comprehensive agricultural development, land renovation and other project funds, and vigorously carry out the construction of high-standard farmland for ensuring harvest by drought and waterlogging. By 2020, 800 million mu of high-standard farmland for drought and waterlogging will be built across the country.

Closely rely on science and technology to tap the potential of grain production. This is the fundamental way to achieve a sustained increase in grain production. In the past 10 years, China's grain yield per mu has increased by 69.6 kg, contributing nearly 70% to the increase in grain production. To continue to increase production at a high starting point, we should give full play to the potential of science and technology to increase production and focus on the popularization and application of new varieties, new technologies, and new machines and tools. It is necessary to speed up the selection and application of a number of new varieties with suitable local characteristics, high yield, high quality and strong stress resistance. We will continue to make great efforts to create high grain production, do a good job in promoting the organizational system of the whole township and county, integrate and popularize advanced and practical technologies, solidly tackle key problems in the model of increasing grain production, and promote balanced production in a large area. We will speed up the whole process of mechanization of grain production, vigorously promote the deep loosening and land preparation of agricultural machinery, and give further play to the carrier role of agricultural machinery in invigorating grain through science and technology.

We will unremittingly strengthen and improve the policies that benefit farmers. This is a key factor in promoting the stable development of grain production. In order to achieve "ten consecutive increases" in grain production, the most important thing is that the policy is good, the central policy is strong, and various localities have issued many supporting policies. In the future, while perfecting and strengthening policies, efforts should be made to pay close attention to the implementation of policies. We will continue to implement the "four subsidies" policy, and the new agricultural subsidies will focus on new business entities such as large grain growers, family farms, and farmers' cooperatives, so that those who produce more grain will receive more subsidies. We will speed up the improvement of the interest compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas, continue to increase incentives for major grain-producing counties, and mobilize the enthusiasm for production in major grain-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.

We will speed up the cultivation of new types of agricultural operators. This is not only a countermeasure to solve the problem of "who will grow grain" and develop modern agriculture, but also a key point of deepening rural reform. On the basis of stabilizing the rural land contracting relationship and keeping it unchanged for a long time, it is necessary to guide the orderly circulation of land and develop moderate-scale operation, support the development of large grain growers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, and social service organizations, and actively cultivate new types of agricultural economic operators. We will carry out vocational training for farmers through various channels, speed up the cultivation of a large number of new professional farmers, focus on training field experts, agricultural machinery operators, scientific and technological leaders, agricultural marketing personnel, and agricultural management personnel, and improve agricultural support policies. attract some young and middle-aged people to stay in rural areas and engage in agriculture. We will encourage and support specialized business service organizations to provide services such as seed supply and seedling raising, agricultural machinery operations, agricultural material supply, agricultural products processing and marketing, and speed up the construction of a three-dimensional compound modern agricultural management system based on household management, linked by cooperation and association, and supported by socialized services.