It is essential to promote the sustainable development of agriculture.

It is essential to promote the sustainable development of agriculture.

On May 23, the National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Work Conference was held in Huzhou, Zhejiang. Vice Minister of Finance Hu Jinglin attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He stressed that it is necessary to promote the comprehensive agricultural development work to a new level with a high sense of pride and responsibility. It is necessary to grasp five points of emphasis and promote agricultural modernization.

First, efforts should be made to improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and achieve grain storage in the land. Comprehensive agricultural development should take high-standard farmland construction as an important task, insist on using funds mainly for high-standard farmland construction, concentrate efforts to increase promotion, continuously consolidate and upgrade agricultural comprehensive production capacity, and ensure the “National Agricultural Comprehensive Development High-standard Farmland Construction Plan” (2011-2020) was completed on schedule. While ensuring financial input, we must actively incite financial and social capital to invest in high-standard farmland construction. It is necessary to optimize the construction layout and prioritize the construction of high-standard farmland that ensures the safety of rations in the main grain producing areas. It is necessary to improve construction standards, enrich the construction content, improve supporting facilities, and improve the management and supervision mechanism to ensure the long-term effectiveness of the project.

The second is to make up for the short-term of the agricultural industry chain and promote the structural reform of the agricultural supply side. Comprehensive agricultural development must not only make efforts to protect the quantity of agricultural products, but also work hard to make up the short-term industrial chain, optimize the structure, and improve the quality and efficiency. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages in supporting the construction of agricultural industrial chain and value chain, and constructing a modern agricultural industrial system, and study and formulate targeted support policies and specific measures to further optimize the industrial support layout and promote agricultural planting, aquaculture, and agricultural products. Optimized structure for processing, storage and preservation services. It is necessary to focus on supporting the close integration of agricultural production and sales and the deep integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, promoting the full-scale socialized service of agricultural production, and promoting the integration of agricultural industrial chain and the promotion of value chain. It is necessary to explore the establishment of a close-knit interest linkage mechanism between agricultural comprehensive development industrialization projects and farmers, so that farmers can share the value-added benefits of industrial integration development.

The third is to focus on transforming agricultural development methods and promoting sustainable agricultural development. Comprehensive agricultural development should further optimize the development layout, classify and implement the “key development zones, protective development zones, and restrictive development zones” and improve the dynamic management mechanism of the development county. Adhere to water conservation as an important standard for high-standard farmland construction, control groundwater over-exploitation, and improve water use efficiency. Support the construction of low-carbon agricultural material technology equipment and facilities, and expand the pilot scope of green ecological recycling agriculture. Actively support project areas with ecological fragility and over-exploitation of resources to control pollution, restore vegetation, and conserve ecology. Vigorously promote good varieties, good skills, good methods, improve the way of science and technology promotion, and improve the level of agricultural production technology.

The fourth is to support the new agricultural business entities and promote the moderate scale operation of agriculture. The comprehensive development of agriculture should aim at ensuring national food security, promoting agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income, adhering to the construction of high-standard farmland as a platform, promoting agricultural industrialization as a starting point, and supporting agricultural socialization services as a support to guide land management. The rights are transferred in an orderly manner, actively fostering a new type of agricultural management system, and developing various forms of moderate scale operations. It is necessary to give full play to the comprehensive advantages, explore the construction of a comprehensive and coordinated support system, and establish a promotion model and specific path suitable for the development of moderate scale operations in different regions. It is necessary to further increase support for new agricultural business entities such as farmers' cooperatives, large planters, family farms, and leading enterprises.

The fifth is to support the development of poverty-stricken areas and help win the fight against poverty. Comprehensive agricultural development should further tilt the capital projects to the poverty-stricken areas and clarify a certain proportion for the poor villages. While vigorously promoting the construction of high-standard farmland and consolidating the foundation of agricultural and rural development, we will focus on “industrial poverty alleviation” and vigorously support poor areas to develop resource-specific industries based on resource conditions.

(Original title: Five points must be captured for sustainable agricultural development)