Fight the battle of food security under the new situation
December 25, 2014 09:57:46
the just-concluded Central Rural Work Conference emphasized that to promote agricultural modernization, we must insist on ensuring national food security as the primary task, ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grain and absolute safety of rations.
At present, China's economic development has entered a new normal, and agricultural development has also entered a new historical stage in which it is urgent to change the mode of development. Although China's grain has achieved "11 consecutive increases", it must be noted that the foundation of food security is not stable: on the one hand, the cost of domestic agricultural production continues to rise, while the price of agricultural products is weak, resulting in the continuous decline of agricultural comparative efficiency, while the decline in the price of bulk agricultural products in the international market leads to the continuous increase of imports, and the cost "floor" and price "ceiling" seriously affect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. On the other hand, China's agricultural ecological environment is seriously damaged, the use of cultivated land and water resources is becoming increasingly tense, and grain production has encountered two "tightening curses" of ecological resources. The pressure of sustainable grain production is unprecedented, and it is becoming more and more difficult to ensure food security.
The people take food as their heaven, and the country takes food as the first. Under the current situation that economic growth has slowed down and economic development has entered a new normal, food security is more related to the healthy development of the economy, the harmony and stability of the society, and the improvement of people's livelihood. We must always tighten food security. Strings, fight the battle of national food security.
It is fundamental to fight the battle of food security and accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode. We should take reform as the driving force to realize the fundamental transformation from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. It is necessary to promote the transformation of grain production from focusing on quantity growth to total balance, structural optimization, and quality and safety; promote the transformation of agricultural development from mainly relying on resource consumption to resource-saving and environment-friendly; promote the transformation of agricultural production conditions from mainly "relying on the sky for food" To improve the level of material technology and equipment; promote the transformation of agricultural producers from traditional farmers to high-quality professional farmers, take the modern agricultural development road of high efficiency, product safety, resource conservation and environment-friendly.
To fight the battle of food security, strategically, we must adhere to the national food security strategy of focusing on ourselves, based on the country, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support, and focus on ensuring basic self-sufficiency in grains and absolute food rations. Grasp and do a good job, so that the Chinese people's rice bowls are firmly in their own hands at all times, and always grasp the initiative of food security in a complex and changeable situation.
To do a good job in food security, we must strictly abide by the red line of cultivated land. Farmers can be "non-agriculturalized", and arable land must not be "non-agriculturalized"; the delineation of permanent basic farmland is the basic guarantee for ensuring production capacity. It must be in accordance with laws and regulations to enable farmers to "have land to grow" and promote "good grain"; The construction of high-standard farmland with drought and flood protection is the key way to ensure production capacity. Comprehensive agricultural development and land improvement must be strengthened to comprehensively improve the quality and land output.
To do a good job in the battle of food security, we must adhere to the connotative development path of relying on scientific and technological progress and increasing yield per unit area, speed up the selection and application of a number of new varieties suitable for local characteristics, high yield, high quality and strong stress resistance, and give agriculture and grain the wings of science and technology. We will speed up the whole process of mechanization of grain production, vigorously promote the deep loosening and soil preparation of agricultural machinery, and further give full play to the carrier role of agricultural machinery in promoting grain through science and technology.
To fight the battle of food security, we must do everything possible to increase the enthusiasm of farmers in growing grain. We should continue to adhere to the principle of market pricing and improve the grain price formation mechanism. On the premise of protecting the interests of farmers, we should promote the policy of minimum purchase price, temporary purchase and storage and agricultural subsidy to gradually change to the target price system of agricultural products. We will improve the way of subsidies, improve the accuracy and directivity of subsidies, and establish a mechanism linking agricultural subsidies with grain production of "who plants and who makes up for it" and "many kinds of subsidies. We will speed up the improvement of the interest compensation mechanism in the main producing areas, continue to increase incentives for major grain-producing counties, and mobilize the enthusiasm of production in the main producing areas.
To do a good job in food security, we must also speed up the innovation of agricultural management system. Speeding up the cultivation of new agricultural management entities and innovating the agricultural management system are the countermeasures to solve the problem of "who will grow grain" and develop modern agriculture. It is necessary to develop moderate-scale operations, support the development of large grain growers, family farms, farmer cooperatives, leading agricultural industrialization enterprises and social service organizations, and actively cultivate new agricultural business entities. It is necessary to explore the establishment of a new agricultural management system based on household contracting, with farmers as the core subject, new agricultural management entities, land stock cooperatives, agricultural socialized service organizations and other diversified entities to jointly operate, and promote the specialization, scale and scale of agricultural management. Organization and enhance the sustainable development of food production.
To do a good job in food security, we must also make overall use of both international and domestic markets and resources. Appropriately increasing imports and speeding up the going out of agriculture is an inevitable choice to ensure food security and ensure the effective supply of important food varieties. Through moderate imports, we should do a good job in adjusting the surplus and shortage of varieties, meet diversified consumer demand, and reduce the pressure on domestic resources and environment. We should explore the implementation of the global agricultural strategy and establish a safe, stable and sustainable global agricultural supply network. It is necessary to grasp the scale and rhythm of imports, and prevent a large number of imports of individual varieties from impacting domestic production and adversely affecting farmers' income.
xinhua news agency, beijing, December 24th, by wire