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A new round of rural reform sees three arrows released at once, with three major measures advanced in tandem
For hundreds of millions of farmers, 2015 will be an extraordinary year. From deepening the reform of the rural land system, with a focus on land transfer and the registration and certification of rights, to expanding the pilot rural reform test zones, and then to reforming the rural circulation system with the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives at its core
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State Council makes arrangements to accelerate the transformation of the agricultural development model
■Encourage the development of circular agriculture integrating crop cultivation and livestock breeding, promote crop rotation and intercropping and relay intercropping of major crops, implement actions to upgrade the processing of staple foods such as potatoes, and actively develop herbivorous livestock farming ■Promote moderate-scale operations in various forms, cultivate new types of business entities, and encourage the development of
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What are the reasons for developing potato staple food products and the industry?
1. Potatoes contain all seven major categories of nutrients essential to the human body, including carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and dietary fiber, and their lysine content is far higher than that of wheat and rice, so nutritious and healthy staple food products can be developed from them. 2. Compared with wheat and rice, potatoes
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China's fresh-eating corn forms a "sweet in the south, waxy in the north" planting pattern
What development path has China's fresh-eating corn gone through? Where does it stand in the world? What are its future development directions? While answering our questions, experts' accounts also let us sense the popularity of fresh-eating corn. Fresh-eating corn is corn harvested and eaten like fruits and vegetables
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The transformation and upgrading of agriculture in a major country must follow the path of sustainable development
As an important focal point for transforming the agricultural development model, strengthening resource protection, enhancing ecological construction, and promoting sustainable agricultural development represent our Party's scientific grasp of the laws governing our country's agricultural development in the course of ecological civilization construction, and serve as the foundational support for the transformation and upgrading of the entire national
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Improving Farmers' Quality and Building a New Force of Farmers with All Efforts
Transforming the agricultural development model makes talent the key, as this is the endogenous driving force and fundamental guarantee for the transformation. To upgrade traditional agriculture and modernize agriculture, it is necessary to increase investment in human capital and substantially improve farmers' comprehensive abilities in production, operation and management. This is a matter of paramount importance.
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Grassland agriculture is a new frontier for building ecological civilization
China is in the midst of a grand transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, and ecological and environmental problems have become one of the prominent issues constraining economic development and affecting social harmony and stability. The 2015 No. 1 Central Document proposed promoting the coordinated development of a three-way planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage grass, a decision that pointed out the path for the sustainable development of China's agriculture in the future. The grassland agriculture system is a modern agricultural system that satisfies the food structure of modern people, balances both ecology and production, and can develop sustainably. Developing grassland agriculture is a new frontier for building ecological civilization in China and is of great significance for safeguarding China's ecological security and promoting the sustainable development of agriculture.
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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Agricultural breeding stocks get a policy boost, sector performance draws attention
The State Council convened an executive meeting and decided to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; deployed accelerated development of rural e-commerce to boost consumption and benefit people's livelihoods by strengthening new business forms; and determined measures to promote the development of the express delivery industry,
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How can farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? Measures suggested
Selling for less than 1.70 yuan per kg, and still hard to sell - what is to be done! Speaking of corn yields and prices, farmer Yan Shanming of Shenwan Village, Lengji Town, Gucheng County, Hubei Province, said to this writer with knitted brows, higher output but hardly higher income makes one feel bitter. Yan Shanming, now in his fifties
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