Don't let the grain farmers suffer.

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed at the forum on rural reform that to deepen rural reform, it is necessary to improve the agricultural support and protection system. At present, some major pilot projects to deepen rural reform have been carried out throughout the country. A relevant responsible person of the Ministry of Finance said that in order to promote rural reform, it is necessary to improve the price formation mechanism and collection and storage system of agricultural products, so as not to allow grain farmers to suffer economically and major grain-growing counties to suffer losses.

We will support the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and the central government will increase subsidies.

The Ministry of Finance conscientiously implemented the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, and vigorously supported the reform of the price formation mechanism and storage system of agricultural products such as corn, soybeans and cotton. "compared with 2015, the total amount and level of subsidies provided by the central government for the target prices of cotton and soybeans in 2016 have been further increased, and financial subsidy funds have been allocated to pilot provinces in advance to effectively protect the interests of farmers. we will promote the coordinated development of the upper and lower reaches of the industrial chain." The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Finance said.

The target price policy is an agricultural support policy that releases price signals to guide market expectations and protects the interests of producers through price difference subsidies on the basis of the formation of agricultural product prices in the market. The financial subsidy mechanism is that when the market price is lower than the target price, the central finance arranges subsidy funds according to the price difference between the target price and the market price, as well as the output of soybeans and cotton in the pilot provinces (regions) investigated by the National Bureau of Statistics. The provincial government is responsible for paying the subsidy funds to the growers. Since the implementation of the pilot project of target price reform, the central government has actively optimized the structure of fiscal expenditure, earnestly increased financial investment, fully guaranteed the target price reform of subsidy funds, and guided local governments to constantly improve subsidy methods and simplify operating procedures. * and other regions have done a lot of work in redeeming subsidy funds.

The responsible person explained that the results of the reform are mainly shown in two aspects: first, reasonable prices return to the market, and the market supply and marketing activities of soybeans and cotton become more active, especially the competitiveness of cotton spinning enterprises is enhanced, and cotton inventory sales are significantly speeded up; second, the state financial subsidies to growers have been further increased, and the basic income of farmers has been guaranteed, thus promoting the steady development of agriculture.

Establish a corn producer subsidy system to ensure that the planting income in superior producing areas is basically stable.

The State Council decided to establish a corn producer subsidy system in the three northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous region. Under the background of promoting the price formation mechanism of agricultural products and the reform of the collection and storage system, the state ensures the basic income of farmers growing grain, promotes the implementation of agricultural supply-side structural reform, and promotes the improvement of the quality and efficiency of agricultural development.

"the establishment of the corn producer subsidy system is based on the fact that the corn price is formed by the market, the average subsidy level of the state to all provinces and regions is the same, and the subsidy base period remains unchanged for a certain number of years." A relevant responsible person of the Ministry of Finance said that this will help give full play to the role of prices in regulating and guiding production, reflect high quality and high prices, promote the adjustment of planting structure, and improve the quality and efficiency of agricultural development.

One of the major characteristics of the subsidy system is the implementation of "market pricing and price compensation separation." That is, corn prices are formed by the market, and at the same time, the central finance will give certain subsidies to the three northeastern provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous region, and encourage local governments to concentrate subsidy funds to advantageous producing areas to ensure that the income of corn planting in advantageous producing areas is basically stable.

In accordance with the relevant decisions of the State Council, the central finance allocates a certain amount of subsidy funds to the provincial finance, and gives local autonomy, and the provinces and regions formulate specific subsidy implementation plans to determine the scope, object, basis and standard of subsidies of the provinces and regions. The operation of subsidies should be open and transparent, and the allocation of subsidy funds by local governments should make full use of the previous work basis of direct grain subsidies, conscientiously accept the supervision of relevant sectors of society, and earnestly strengthen organization and implementation, ensure that the state financial subsidy funds are paid to corn producers. At present, the governments of the three provinces in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia Autonomous region have initially formulated corn producer subsidy programs in their respective provinces and regions.

This year, the central government will allocate 39.4 billion yuan to reward major grain-growing counties to increase farmers' income.

"Agricultural subsidy is an important part of the national policy of strengthening farmers and benefiting rich farmers. How to improve grain production efficiency and increase farmers' grain income is the main factor to be considered in the policy." According to a relevant responsible person of the Ministry of Finance, with the consent of the State Council, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture launched a pilot project to adjust and improve the agricultural "three subsidies" policies in Anhui, Shandong, Hunan, Sichuan and Zhejiang provinces last year. On the basis of the remarkable results of the pilot project, this reform has been carried out throughout the country this year.

The main content of the reform is to combine the subsidies for improved varieties of crops, direct subsidies for grain farmers and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural materials into "agricultural support and protection subsidies" to support the protection of cultivated land and the appropriate scale operation of grain. The subsidy object of cultivated land fertility protection is all the farmers who have the right to contract cultivated land, and the farmers who enjoy the subsidy should keep the cultivated land not abandoned and the soil fertility not reduced. The subsidy funds for moderate-scale grain operation are mainly supported by new business entities such as large grain growers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives and agricultural specialized cooperatives, which reflect that priority will be given to those who have many kinds of food. do not let grain farmers suffer losses.

In order to mobilize the enthusiasm of major grain-producing counties for agricultural production, the central government allocated 39.4 billion yuan in incentive funds for major grain-producing counties in 2016, an increase of 2.2 billion yuan over last year. The incentive funds were further tilted towards major commercial grain provinces and major counties for the transfer of grain and oil, and increased financial arrangements for corn producing areas in Huang-Huai-Hai, encouraging localities to increase support for new business entities, protecting the enthusiasm of growing grain, and promoting the adjustment of the planting structure of corn, so as to better promote the reform of the collection and storage system of agricultural products.