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Notable progress achieved in transforming the growth model and raising the quality of agricultural mechanization
This website reports: Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture has fully implemented the spirit of the Central Rural Work Conference and the National Agricultural Work Conference, taking the transformation of the agricultural mechanization development model and the improvement of development quality as the main thrust, and striving to promote the comprehensive, whole-process, high-quality and high-efficiency development of agricultural mechanization.
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The building of the rural practical talent team has achieved obvious results at this stage
Since the beginning of this year, the Personnel Department of the Ministry of Agriculture has placed the training of rural practical talents in a prominent position in the building of the agricultural and rural talent team, adopted effective measures to grasp it firmly and do it well, and all work has advanced steadily, with obvious results at this stage, providing strong talent support for consolidating the good momentum of agricultural and rural economic development.
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Leisure agriculture has achieved remarkable results in China's development
Since the reform and opening up, China's leisure agriculture has gone through the historical stages of emergence, start-up and all-round development. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan period, leisure agriculture in various regions has been advancing competitively and flourishing, showing the characteristics of an ever-expanding industrial scale, continuously rising development connotations, gradually enriching types and models, gradual transformation of development methods, and simultaneous improvement of comprehensive benefits, forming a sound momentum of "accelerated development, optimized layout, improved quality, and expanded fields". Across the country, diverse leisure agriculture types represented by farmhouse entertainment, folk custom villages, leisure farms and leisure granges have been developing competitively. Leisure agriculture management departments at all levels, responding to the rapidly growing demand for leisure consumption of urban and rural residents, have effectively promoted the sustained and healthy development of leisure agriculture through strengthening departmental cooperation, improving support policies, standardizing industry management, strengthening public services, and cultivating well-known brands.</p> <p> ——Industrial scale growing steadily. In 2013, nationwide leisure agriculture received 900 million visits, with operating revenue of 270 billion yuan, continuing to maintain a growth momentum of more than 15%. In the first half of this year, it received 500 million tourist visits, with operating revenue of 150 billion yuan, benefiting 30 million farmers. Tianjin Municipality, following the concept of "linking points into lines, linking lines into areas, and advancing as a whole", planned premium leisure agriculture routes, leading the upgrading of leisure agriculture; in 2013, its comprehensive leisure agriculture revenue was 2.63 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%. </p> <p> ——Rich and diverse industry types. The Ministry of Agriculture put forward requirements such as adapting to local conditions, scientific planning, rational layout and diversified development. Based on natural features, locational advantages, cultural heritage, ecological environment, level of economic development and consumption habits, various regions, on the basis of forms such as farmhouse entertainment, folk custom villages, leisure farms and leisure granges, have continuously innovated development types and expanded the economic, social, cultural and ecological functions of leisure agriculture, activating a region, giving rise to a number of industries, enriching a group of people, and building a paradise. </p> <p> ——Development methods gradually transforming. The Ministry of Agriculture and various regions, through standardized management, have continuously guided the healthy and orderly development of leisure agriculture; the industrial zones and industrial belts formed through development focus on functional linkage and complementary features, highlighting leisure experiences. The development mode of leisure agriculture has shifted from spontaneous development by farmers to planning guidance by governments at all levels; the operating scale has shifted from scattered distribution and dispersed operation to clustered distribution and intensive operation; the functional positioning has shifted from a single catering function to multiple functions such as leisure, education and experience; the spatial layout has shifted from the surroundings of scenic areas and urban suburbs to more suitable regions; and the operating entities have shifted from mainly farmer households to multiple entities. </p> <p> ——Brand building continuously advancing. The Ministry of Agriculture and various regions, through typical demonstrations, have continuously enhanced the social influence of leisure agriculture, and brand building has shown a sound momentum of "a hundred flowers blooming". At present, a total of 149 national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration counties and 386 demonstration sites have been created; 140 of China's most beautiful leisure villages, 248 of China's beautiful pastoral areas and more than 10,000 creative fine works have been recommended; and 39 China Important Agricultural Heritage Systems have been recognized, including 11 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. In the course of development, various regions have strived to build local leisure agriculture brands, developing and forming a large number of well-known brands such as the Nanjing Agriculture Carnival and Beijing Agriculture Carnival, the Yunnan Luoping Rapeseed Flower Festival, grassland vacations in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Gansu, and village tours in Guizhou. </p> <p> Practice has proved that leisure agriculture is an industry that strengthens agriculture and enriches the people, conforming to the laws of economic, natural and social development, adapting to market demand and containing huge potential; it is a sunrise industry and emerging industry that benefits the country and the people, achieves multiple effects at once, and drives the overall situation. Leisure agriculture work is highly consistent with strategic measures being implemented by the state, such as modern agriculture construction, ecological civilization construction, integrated urban-rural development, and Beautiful China construction. The Ministry of Agriculture and leisure agriculture management departments at all levels have always adhered to reform and innovation in their work practice, focusing on six aspects to strive to promote the sustained and healthy development of national leisure agriculture: first, emphasizing organizational leadership, continuously strengthening work organization and top-level design around adding value and increasing efficiency for agriculture, increasing employment and income for farmers, and making rural areas beautiful and harmonious; second, emphasizing policy support, earnestly safeguarding farmers' interests, and strengthening guarantees in aspects such as financial rewards, project support and policy standardization; third, emphasizing planning guidance, further clarifying development ideas, principles, layout and priorities; fourth, emphasizing demonstration creation, continuously improving relevant standards and methods, and effectively giving play to the driving role of typical examples; fifth, emphasizing enhancing connotations, tapping cultural resources, and broadening the resource carriers for leisure agriculture development; sixth, emphasizing creating an atmosphere, carrying out a series of exhibition activities, and publicizing and promoting leisure agriculture from multiple perspectives. </p> <p> </p>
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High grain yields cannot be achieved without the clustered, coordinated approach
October, the harvest season. Across the vast fields of Henan and Shandong, combine harvesters, tillage tractors and grain-hauling tricycles shuttle back and forth through the fields and along the paths, while flocks of foraging birds rise and settle from time to time... At the field edges and on the drying grounds, farmers work the land while chatting
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Important breakthrough achieved in high-efficiency hybrid soybean breeding and seed production technology
A research group led by researcher Wei Baoguo of the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, after more than 30 years of unremitting efforts, has achieved an important breakthrough in high-efficiency hybrid soybean breeding and seed production technology, opening up broad prospects for the utilization of heterosis in soybeans in China and even the world. Led by the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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Zero growth in pesticide and chemical fertilizer use achieved by 2020
Data from the Ministry of Agriculture shows that degraded farmland now accounts for more than 40% of China's total farmland area. The black soil layer in the Northeast is thinning, soils in the South are acidifying, the plow layer of the North China Plain is becoming shallower, and in particular some reclaimed farmland is of low quality grade. These problems seriously affect farmland output.
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Harmless disposal of dead and diseased livestock and poultry must be basically achieved
On November 25, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly held a teleconference on implementing the Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Establishing a Harmless Disposal Mechanism for Dead and Diseased Livestock and Poultry, comprehensively
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New achievements in 2014 for the subsidy policy for primary processing facilities of agricultural products
Website news Recently, the Agricultural Product Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium in Beijing on the implementation of the subsidy policy for primary processing facilities of agricultural products, summarizing and exchanging the results and experience of the implementation of the subsidy policy for primary processing facilities of agricultural products in various regions in 2014, and deploying next year's work priorities
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In 2014, agricultural and rural economic development achieved remarkable results.
On December 22, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that in the soon-to-pass 2014, the agricultural and rural economy achieved steady progress, improved quality, and increased efficiency from a high starting point: grain production achieved an 11th consecutive increase, with total output reaching 1,214.2 billion jin, an increase of 10.32 billion jin over the previous year, and continuous
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Agricultural modernization cannot be achieved without the important support of informatization.
China's agricultural development faces the dual constraints of resources and the market, and there is an urgent need to transform the development mode. The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed promoting the synchronized development of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. Correctly understanding and scientifically judging the impact of informatization on modern
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