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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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How should we treat food with tenderness
On November 24th, your newspaper's commentary page published the article "Every Grain of Food Deserves to Be Treated with Tenderness," which provided some little-known and shocking figures. This confirms the lament of a German scholar: "China is the world's largest poor country, and also the world's largest
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How should the target price reform for agricultural products be carried out?
The predicament and direction of the reform of the target price system for agricultural products. China's food security implements the strategy of "taking self-sufficiency as the mainstay, basing itself on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support," firmly holding the rice bowl in our own hands. This year's No. 1 Document proposed the target price system for agricultural products, and through price mechanism reform, smoothing the relationship between supply and demand is of great significance to ensuring China's food security. What is the target price system for agricultural products? It means that the government sets a target price for agricultural products. When the actual market price is higher than the target price, low-income consumers are subsidized; when the market price is lower than the target price, producers are subsidized according to the price difference. In 2014, pilot programs for target price subsidies for soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia and for cotton in Xinjiang were launched, exploring pilot programs for target price insurance for agricultural products such as grain and live pigs, and carrying out pilot programs for marketing loans for entities operating grain production on a large scale. If the pilot programs are further expanded in the future, many unresolved difficulties still lie ahead, mainly including:
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Broad prospects for GM agriculture, bold research should be pursued
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that this year's grain output increased by 10.3 billion jin over the previous year. After earlier drought disasters, how did grain achieve an eleventh consecutive increase? Why have imports still increased? Will grain production be developed through GM technology? Chief Economist and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Agriculture
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Sorghum prices keep falling: how should growers respond in 2014?
Since the start of 2014, sorghum prices have failed to match last year's highs and have kept falling. As of December 9, the purchase price of new-crop sorghum held at 1.00 yuan/jin, down another 11% compared with September, while the ex-factory price of old-crop cleaned grain fell by as much as 22%. 2014 sorghum prices
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The Seed Law should not become a shield for shirking responsibility
Recently, while conducting interviews at seed production bases in Xinjiang and Gansu, the author found that some local regulatory authorities, when investigating and handling seed-related illegal cases, err on the side of leniency and lightness. When choosing which provisions to apply, they often use the maximum fine of 50,000 yuan for seed-related violations stipulated in the Seed Law as a shield, do not pursue criminal liability, and create no real deterrent against lawbreakers.
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Agricultural assessment should abandon the yield-only mentality and insist on giving equal weight to quantity and quality
The just-concluded Central Economic Work Conference proposed accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model. Stabilizing the output of grain and major agricultural products and increasing farmers' incomes have always been important elements of agriculture, and there has been much emphasis in the past on improving the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, improving the transfer of land management rights, and vocational training.
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Non-staple crops should be gradually liberalized, with subsidies and state purchasing and storage moderately reduced
Recently, the Central Economic Work Conference was held, calling for an accurate grasp of the new normal in economic development. When deploying the main tasks for next year's economic work, it called for accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model. Against the backdrop of advancing new urbanization, the development of agricultural modernization has become a key link.
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How should the connotation of new urbanization be comprehensively understood?
Although urbanization was a phenomenon that appeared earlier in developed countries, different countries have different national conditions, and their development paths and forms of expression also have their own characteristics. China has summarized the experience and lessons of urbanization development at home and abroad and put forward the development approach of new urbanization. This is an innovative exploration of the path and realization methods of urbanization based on China's
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Land system reform should adhere to legislation first, reform second
Some important measures for rural land system reform proposed at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee are consistent with the basic principles of existing laws and regulations, but some formulations conflict with existing laws and regulations. A major feature of past land system reform was to pilot first
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