Grasping Grain, Grasping "Granary", Stabilizing Grain and Stabilizing Large Counties

At the Beidahuang Precision Agricultural Machinery Center of Heilongjiang Land Reclamation and Jiansanjiang Farm, the staff demonstrated the operation processes of real-time scheduling of agricultural machinery and GPS positioning on the spot, which made secretaries and county magistrates from hundreds of major grain-producing counties across the country full of praise, and many people even took out their mobile phones to take pictures.

This is a scene from a training course in major grain-producing counties across the country. A few days ago, the main responsible persons of 339 counties (cities) with a national grain output of more than 1 billion jin gathered in Heilongjiang to receive training by listening to lectures and on-the-spot observation. It is rare in our country to train the persons in charge of major grain counties on such a large scale. Han Changfu, minister of agriculture, said: "in my memory, this is the third time that such a large-scale county party secretary and county magistrate have concentrated exchanges."

"everyone is heartened and encouraged by the fact that the state attaches so much importance to major grain-producing counties." Chen Zhong, head of Huaxian County in Henan Province, said: in the past, counties with strong industries were arrogant, while counties with a lot of grain lacked the bottom spirit, and this time they informed people from major grain-producing counties to come for training.

"although Zizhong is located in the hills, with a large population and little land, and does not have such innate geographical conditions as the northeast region, we cannot use this as an excuse to weaken grain production. We insist on putting grain production in the most important position. " Zhang Wei, head of Zizhong County, Sichuan Province, said.

At present, the development of grain production in China is facing many challenges, such as rigid growth of demand, tightening of hard constraints of resources, rising production costs, decline of comparative efficiency, structural shortage of rural labor force and so on. During the exchange, the secretaries and county magistrates said that in order to maintain the good momentum of stable grain development, major grain counties should have more responsibilities. They put forward insightful suggestions on ensuring the country's food security.

We will implement large-scale projects with great efforts and long-term management in improving the ability to stabilize and increase grain production in major grain-producing counties. At present, the problem of weak agricultural infrastructure in major grain-producing counties has not been significantly improved, and the ability to resist disasters is still weak. The responsible persons of many major grain-producing counties have suggested that the state should increase input in improving the comprehensive grain production capacity, and among the current policies and measures for steady growth, it is necessary to focus on the building of basic capacity to support major grain-producing counties with a grain output of more than 500 million jin. If the grain production capacity of major counties is steadily increased, the national food security can be raised to a new level.

We will take effective measures to promote the implementation of the policy of financial support for agriculture and effectively solve the problems of difficult agricultural loans and weak insurance. Lim Choon-Won, head of Linyi County, Shandong Province, said that now agricultural insurance compensates only 300 yuan per mu of wheat and corn, and the compensation standard is too low to cover even the cost. It is suggested to speed up the landing of relevant financial and insurance policies. On the one hand, we should strengthen the hard constraints on commercial financial and insurance institutions and formulate business assessment requirements to support agricultural modernization; on the other hand, we should increase state financial subsidies for financial and insurance institutions to carry out "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" business. help them reduce business costs and risks and improve their enthusiasm. At the same time, we should expand the scope of agricultural insurance, increase the proportion of premium subsidies to large grain growers, and enhance the ability of agriculture to cope with natural risks.

While increasing the intensity of transfer payments, the county-level supporting facilities for major grain-producing counties to reduce or exempt funds for the construction of agricultural projects. Everyone reflected that the state should increase its support to major grain-producing counties, especially some major grain-producing counties and counties with financial difficulties in the central and western regions, and fundamentally change the situation of growing grain and suffering more losses from various kinds of grain. It is hoped that we will further strengthen the investment in major grain-producing counties and continue to increase financial rewards and subsidies in major grain-producing counties. At the same time, we will implement the "reduction or cancellation of funding for construction projects such as grain production in major grain-producing counties" proposed by the Central Committee No. 1 this year. Dong Shuchun, director of the Beilin District of Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, reflected that the financial resources of the major grain counties are limited, and the supporting funds for agricultural projects in the area in the past five years have totaled 140 million yuan, which is under great pressure.

We will introduce policies to speed up the cultivation of new types of agricultural operators. The main body of the new type of agricultural management is an important force to stabilize and increase grain production, and it is urgently needed in the use of improved varieties, purchase of machinery, insurance and so on. It is suggested that government orders, incentives and subsidies, and exemption from business tax for qualified agricultural business should be adopted to increase support for new agricultural operators and encourage them to increase their variety of grain.