In 2014, Hunan focused on supporting 10,000 family farms.

"from tomorrow, care about food and vegetables." As written in the poem, owning a "family farm" was once the dream of many people. The concept of "family farm" first appeared in document No. 1 of the Central Committee last year, and in February 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the guidance on promoting the Development of Family Farm, calling for the implementation of relevant support policies for family farms. This content has also been written into the No. 1 document of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee, and Hunan will focus on supporting 10000 family farms this year.

On March 26, the Information Office of the Provincial Government held a press conference on document No. 1 of the Provincial CPC Committee. Zhong Zhenghong, deputy director of the rural work department of the provincial party committee, deputy director of the agricultural office of the provincial government, and spokesman Zhong Zhenghong introduced the relevant contents of document No. 1 of the provincial party committee. This year, we will promote the five main tasks in the work of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, including earnestly grasping grain production and ensuring the market supply of major agricultural products; adhering to and improving the basic management system in rural areas and innovating the agricultural management system; further strengthening infrastructure construction; innovating the science and technology extension system to raise the level of agricultural science and technology; innovating the rural investment and financing system; and innovating the rural governance mechanism.

Cultivate new agricultural operators such as family farms

In the periphery of Changsha City, there have been many family farms, families engaged in agricultural scale, intensive, commercial production and management, such as large-scale production of enzymes from fresh vegetables. Similar family farms will receive support. This year, the No. 1 document of the Provincial CPC Committee proposed that it would focus on the implementation of the "30 billion projects."

The "three 10 million projects" include the modern agricultural development project of "100 enterprises, thousands of cooperatives", the project of invigorating agriculture through science and technology, and the new rural construction project of "100 cities, thousands of towns and thousands of villages". This year, we will complete the task of environmental renovation of 4000 villages and build 300 beautiful and livable villages. In addition, starting from this year, we will focus on creating 100 "beautiful villages" and 10 "beautiful towns" every year.

This year, efforts will be made to do a good job in the "three reforms": stabilize and improve the rural land management contract system, actively cultivate new types of agricultural operators, and innovate the rural investment and financing system. In the aspect of "actively cultivating new agricultural management subjects", we should speed up the construction of a three-dimensional compound modern agricultural management system based on peasant household management, linked by cooperation and association, and supported by social service. Cultivate new types of agricultural operators, such as large professional households, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, agricultural enterprises, and so on. Carry out the establishment of a demonstration family farm. We will encourage the development of farmers' cooperative cooperatives and allow financial project funds to be directly invested in qualified cooperatives.

This year, some counties have been selected to carry out the overall pilot project of confirming power and issuing certificates.

"the land contract relationship in some places is not stable enough, the land transfer mechanism is not sound and standard, and the protection of farmers' property rights is not effective enough," Zhong Zhenghong introduced the current situation of rural land contractual management rights in Hunan. He said: deepening the reform of the land system in rural areas mainly includes deepening the reform of the contracted management right system of rural land, steadily promoting the reform of land for collective management, actively exploring and steadily promoting the reform of the system of confirming rights in rural areas, and steadily promoting the reform of the land expropriation system.

This year, the No. 1 document of the Hunan Provincial CPC Committee proposed to stabilize and improve the rural land management and contracting system. In accordance with the requirements of this reform, we will focus on the work of confirming the rights of contracted management of rural land. Zhong Zhenghong said: according to the unified plan of the central government, this work will be completed within five years. This year is the second year of the confirmation of power certification, and this work will be fully completed within four years after this year. This year, Hunan will select representative counties among the first, second and third categories of counties to carry out pilot projects as a whole.

The new concept of "family farm" has actually been developed for many years in our country.

"although the concept of family farm is relatively new, it has actually been developed for a period of time in our country." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Rural Management system and Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a news conference of the Ministry of Agriculture on 27 February that since the 1980s and 1990s, some farming experts have engaged in agricultural specialization and large-scale production by contracting and transferring land, which already has the basic characteristics of a family farm. Since the beginning of the new century, Ningbo in Zhejiang, Songjiang in Shanghai, Yanbian in Jilin and other places have actively explored the cultivation of family farms. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture last year, by the end of 2012, there were 877000 family farms that met the statistical standards, with an operating area of 176 million mu of arable land, with an average operating scale of 200.2 mu, of which 861000 were engaged in farming, accounting for 98.2% of the total number of family farms.

Zhang Hongyu said that the family farm has three main characteristics. One is the family business. Family farms mainly rely on family members to engage in production, even if hired workers only play an auxiliary role. Second, professional farming. Family farm specializes in agricultural production, mainly engaged in specialized production of planting and breeding industry, has a high level of management, strong demonstration and driving ability, and has a strong production capacity of commercial agricultural products. Third, the scale is moderate. Because the family farm has a larger planting scale, it can enable the operator to obtain a decent income equal to that of the local urban residents.

There are five main support measures for "family farm".

Zhang Hongyu, director of the Rural Economic system and Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an interview with the media on February 27 that at this stage, the cultivation of family farm operators should mainly be contracted farmers, and policy support should focus on large-scale operation farmers produced among contracted farmers. rather than encouraging urban residents to go to the countryside to cultivate land. The specific support measures for family farms mainly include five aspects:

The first is to establish a family farm registration and recognition system. Jiangsu, Shandong and other provinces have issued measures for industrial and commercial registration of family farms, and Zhejiang and Anhui provinces have introduced measures for the identification of exemplary family farms.

The second is to guide the flow of rural land to family farms. Since 2007, Songjiang District of Shanghai has clearly rented the land sorted out collectively to family farms. Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province gives appropriate financial subsidies to the transferred land of family farms.

Third, agriculture-related financial subsidies are tilted to family farms. According to statistics, the development funds for supporting family farms across the country reached 635 million yuan in 2012.

Fourth, strengthen financial and insurance services. All localities strengthen the financial and insurance services for family farms by setting up agricultural guarantee companies, issuing loan subsidies, setting up risk prevention funds and expanding the scope of loan mortgage.

Fifth, improve the service level of agricultural socialization. By providing diversified, multi-level and omni-directional social services, we can promote the healthy development of family farms.