Increase the construction of high-standard farmland to ensure national food security

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] On February 8th, the State Council executive meeting was held, and it was decided to further clean up and standardize the fees charged by enterprises, and continue to reduce the burden on the real economy; deploy deepening the reform of the construction industry to promote the industrial upgrading; Policy measures for standard farmland construction, solidify food security and modern agricultural foundation; pass the Pesticide Management Regulations (Revised Draft).

Increase the construction of high-standard farmland to ensure national food security

The meeting pointed out that solidly promoting the construction of high-standard farmland is of great significance for the development of modern agriculture, ensuring food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, and promoting the sustainable development of rural areas. The meeting stressed that it is necessary to closely combine the development of various forms of moderate scale operation, transformation of low- and medium-yield fields, promotion of agricultural mechanization, promotion of land deep-plowing and water-saving irrigation, etc., and the development of high-standard farmland. First, improve the planning and capital coordination mechanisms, and coordinate the construction of land leveling, irrigation and drainage ditches, field roads, and ecological protection in accordance with the requirements of centralized contiguous and overall promotion. The second is to improve the post-construction management and protection mechanism, establish a national unified database, and rely on remote sensing monitoring to achieve full-scale monitoring and management of high-standard farmland. The third is to increase government input, mobilize the enthusiasm of social forces, and jointly participate in high-standard farmland investment construction and management.

The reporter learned that the so-called high-standard farmland refers to the farmland that is formed through the consolidation of land, with supporting facilities, high-yield and stable production, good ecological and strong resilience, and is compatible with modern agricultural production and management methods. According to Han Jun, deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, the high-standard farmland that China has built during the 12th Five-Year Plan period is 403 million mu, with an investment of more than 590 billion yuan.

In January this year, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Protection of Cultivated Land and Improving the Balance of Occupation and Compensation" was officially announced. This is the second time that the central government issued the opinion on the protection of cultivated land after 20 years. The "Opinions" proposes to ensure the completion of 800 million mu by 2020 and strive to build 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland. According to Han Jun, there are three important policy initiatives for building high-standard farmland during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. First, the central and local governments will invest about 600 billion yuan to build funds, and hope to incite social funds through financial funds. Participation, the second is to comprehensively promote the divestiture of cultivated land, and the third is to strengthen the basic support, including regular evaluation of the production capacity and quality level of the country's cultivated land, and improve the quality survey and monitoring system of cultivated land.

Yu Xinrong, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that in order to achieve the basic self-sufficiency and the strategic bottom line of ration security, it is necessary to promote the strategy of “grabbing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology”, and it is necessary to protect the cultivated land. The key point of protecting cultivated land is to maintain the two red lines of the quantity and quality of cultivated land, that is, to carry out high-standard farmland construction on a large scale, to implement the protection and improvement actions of cultivated land quality, to curb the degradation trend of cultivated land, to improve the quality of cultivated land, and to strive to achieve “grained grain”. "On the ground" requirements.

Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the current problem of the quality of cultivated land in China is a contradiction. In some areas, there is still a phenomenon of excessive reduction of cultivated land or excessive reclamation. In order to protect the cultivated land, especially the quality of cultivated land to be implemented, it is necessary to adhere to the principle of superiority and complementation. In basic farmland, especially in food function areas and major agricultural product protection areas, it is necessary to increase the intensity of high-standard farmland construction and improve The comprehensive production capacity of agriculture ensures the food security of the country by improving the quality of cultivated land. In addition, the construction of high-standard farmland can also promote the distribution of concentrated farmland, provide a platform for the development of modern agriculture, create favorable conditions for land transfer, and facilitate the scale operation of agriculture.

The State Council executive meeting also passed the "Pesticide Management Regulations (Revised Draft)". The draft is focused on ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products. First, strict process management. The responsibility for pesticide production management, which was originally responsible for many departments, was unified into the agricultural sector, to solve the problem of repeated supervision and supervision of blind areas, to implement a licensing system for pesticide production and management, and to establish systems for invoicing, quality inspection and waste recycling. Reduce the use of pesticides and strengthen the supervision of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides. The second is to strengthen the main responsibility. It is clear that production and management personnel are responsible for the safety and effectiveness of pesticides, and require a sound quality management system to promptly recall pesticides with serious or greater risks. The third is to increase penalties. In addition to the original penalties for illegal activities such as unlicensed production and operation, production and sale of counterfeit and inferior pesticides, the courts have increased the number of fines and included in the “blacklist” to provide disciplinary protection for the safety of the table.