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Will agricultural subsidies favor grain growers? There are more policy adjustments to come
From the pilot target price subsidy program, to the integration of the three subsidies (improved seed subsidy, direct grain-growing subsidy, and agricultural input subsidy) into the agricultural support and protection subsidy, and then to the adjustment of fishery fuel price subsidies. At China's central level, agricultural subsidy policy is undergoing a series of major
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How to Grow Autumn and Winter Vegetables? The Ministry of Agriculture Issues National Production Technology Guidance
Editor's note: Once White Dew has passed, the important period for planting autumn and winter vegetables arrives once again. Whether this crop is grown well or not has a direct bearing on the vegetable supply for this autumn and winter and for next spring, and on the annual income of vegetable growers. Compared with spring vegetables, autumn and winter temperatures are low,
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Renting Land in the Countryside to Grow Vegetables Becomes a New Urban Trend
In Hongguang Village, Sancha Town, Zunyi County, some farmland that was at risk of being left fallow was transferred by the government and then divided into small plots to rent to city people for growing vegetables. According to reports, this hands-on experience project is quite popular and has also boosted rural tourism. Ever since the "Happy Farm"
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Aquatic product quality assurance is fundamental to development and growth
September and October mark the best season to savor seafood. During this time of transition between summer and autumn, seafood catches are abundant, seafood varieties are numerous, chrysanthemums are fragrant and crabs are plump, and the flavors are delicious, making one's mouth water. Over the past 10-plus years, China's fishery economy has maintained rapid growth, and in less than
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Grain Price Inversion Leads to Surge in Grain Imports: Farmers Cannot Sell the Grain They Grow
Grain Won't Sell, Grain Farmers Want to Cry but Have No Tears: Does China Have Too Much Grain? Author: Gao Yuanzhi, Zhou Mian, Wu Tao Source: Banyuetan Website Editor: Yuan Bixia Editor's Note: At present, China's grain production and grain market have some puzzling aspects: on the one hand, grain
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How to Break the Growth Bottleneck of New-Type Business Entities
To cultivate new-type agricultural business entities, transform the agricultural development model, improve the overall efficiency and market competitiveness of agriculture, and advance the rapid development of modern agriculture, the problems of capital, land and mechanisms must be effectively solved. First, small enterprises face difficulties in obtaining loans and financing. In new-type agricultural
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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Total registered geographical indications for agricultural products reaches 1733, becoming a new growth point
At present, the total number of registered geographical indications for agricultural products in China has reached 1733, with 6839 distinctive resources on file, 12 national-level demonstration models for geographical indications of agricultural products created, and more than 6000 person-times of training for verification personnel and brand-building personnel, becoming a new
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Measures decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 11, at which measures were decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes, so as to safeguard food security and farmers' interests. The meeting noted that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and another bumper harvest has been achieved this year, which has strongly supported economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but problems also exist such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. As it is now the time for autumn harvest and winter planting, multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests and their enthusiasm for growing grain. First, we must do a good job in purchasing autumn grain, increase investment in the construction of storage facilities, speed up the progress of grain depots under construction and those being repaired or renovated, additionally increase the plan for trans-provincial depot transfers as needed, increase the transport of grain from the north to the south, promptly introduce policies to encourage processing enterprises to enter the market to buy grain, strictly investigate "IOUs" and the practice of depressing grades and prices, and prevent difficulties in selling grain. Second, we must steadily digest existing inventories and reclassify eligible temporary stored corn as one-time state reserves. We must strengthen grain storage management to ensure the safety of stored grain. Third, we must do a good job in winter and spring agricultural production, speed up water conservancy construction such as irrigation and drainage facilities, and strengthen the supply guarantee of agricultural means of production. We must increase investment in the construction of high-standard farmland, with priority tilted toward main producing areas. Fourth, we must reform the mechanisms for grain price formation and purchase and storage, improve the subsidy policies for corn and soybeans, and continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy next year for staple grain varieties such as wheat and rice. Fifth, we must promote the conversion of sloping land in the south back to forest, advance fallow land and corn-soybean rotation, expand the pilot scope of "changing grain to feed," and promote the adjustment of the planting structure.
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Move quickly to cultivate new drivers of agricultural growth, and uphold both quantity and quality
China News Service, November 15 - Li Wei, Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, pointed out today that in the face of new conditions for food and food safety, we must move quickly to cultivate new drivers of agricultural growth, uphold both quantity and quality, balance the present and the long term, coordinate domestic and international efforts, and comprehensively
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