Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the country’s grain output has remained at 1.2 trillion kilos for five consecutive years since 2013, indicating that grain production capacity has reached a new level steadily.
According to the introduction of the Ministry of Agriculture, since the 18th CPC National Congress, China has pushed forward the structural reform of the agricultural supply side, newly raised the quality of the agricultural supply system, made new progress in green development and provided strong support for the overall economic and social development. At the same time, the development of agriculture insisted on market orientation and actively adjusted the planting, livestock husbandry and fishery structures, reducing corn, increasing beans, expanding forage grass, adjusting live pigs and raising milk.
According to the authoritative data, in 2017, the grain output of the 13 major grain-producing areas nationwide increased to 76.2% of the national total, while the grain corn reduced by 19.4 million mu and the soybean area increased by 8.71 million mu. The supply of green high quality agricultural products increased significantly, and the overall pass rate of routine quality and safety monitoring of agricultural products in the country reached 97.8%.
As the meanings of the structural reform on the supply side of agriculture, all localities in recent years have taken the prominent position of green development in agriculture, innovated institutional mechanisms and policy systems, highlighted outstanding problems in agricultural resources and environment, and made new progress in agricultural green development.
According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, the utilization rates of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in China have increased by 3.8 and 4.8 percentage points respectively. The comprehensive utilization rate of livestock and poultry manure, the comprehensive utilization rate of straw and the recovery rates of plastic sheeting have reached over 60% 55.3%.
High-quality development is also reflected in the fact that the first, second and tertiary industries in rural areas have further accelerated the integration and broadened the channel for farmers to increase their income. At present, the ratio of agricultural products processing industry to agricultural output has reached 2.2: 1. 41 modern agricultural industrial parks have been set up across the country. More than 7 million entrepreneurs have returned to their hometowns, and leisure agriculture and rural electricity suppliers have become new growth points. The total income of farmers in the country has increased by more than 50% over the past five years and has risen to a one-thousand-yuan level each year.
Looking forward to 2018, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said that the launch of the rural rejuvenation strategy will provide major strategic opportunities for agricultural investment as well as major strategic opportunities for agricultural and rural economic development. In order to promote the high-quality development of agriculture and open up a new space for investment in agriculture, the total investment in the primary industry will continue to expand, and investment in the area will tilt to the production of quality agricultural products, leisure agriculture and rural tourism, and rural electricity suppliers. “
