Striving to Open Up a New Phase in the Comprehensive Utilization of Crop Straw
On October 10, Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin emphasized at the national on-site meeting on comprehensive utilization of crop straw and deep loosening and land preparation by agricultural machinery that the comprehensive utilization of straw is a complex, arduous and long-term systemic project. Agricultural departments at all levels must further strengthen their sense of responsibility and overall perspective, follow the approach of policy support, demonstration guidance, agricultural use as the main direction, industrial development, combining blockage and guidance, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, innovate institutional mechanisms and working methods, adapt measures to local conditions, provide classified guidance, highlight key priorities, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprises, cooperatives and farmers, striving to form an industrialized pattern of comprehensive straw utilization with a rational layout and diversified uses, and ensuring that by 2020 the national comprehensive utilization rate of straw reaches above 85%.
Crop straw is an important agricultural resource; used, it is a treasure, discarded, it is a harm. The comprehensive utilization of crop straw is conducive to promoting the development of circular agriculture and green development, and to enriching soil fertility and improving cultivated land quality. It bears on the overall situation of transforming the mode of agricultural development, building modern agriculture, protecting the ecological environment and preventing and controlling air pollution, and further doing a good job in the comprehensive utilization of straw is of great significance.
The meeting required that all localities, first, strengthen policy creation, incorporate the comprehensive utilization of straw into the government's key work, major plans and major projects of the 13th Five-Year Plan, and establish a long-term mechanism. Second, innovate financing mechanisms, and in accordance with the principle of clearly defined powers and responsibilities and shared burdens among multiple parties, gradually explore and establish a tripartite financing mechanism among the central government, local governments and operating entities, establish a platform for development finance to support the comprehensive utilization of straw, and strengthen the market-oriented capital operation of comprehensive straw utilization. Third, carry out pilot demonstrations, integrate existing technologies into supporting models, transform mature technologies into working models, elevate working models into major projects and expand them into major initiatives, launch pilots for the full-quantity utilization of straw, and carry out special technology pilots and innovation and integration demonstrations for conservation tillage technology. Fourth, strengthen scientific and technological support, introduce and assimilate a batch of advanced foreign technologies and equipment suited to our country's conditions, innovate and develop a batch of general-purpose and practical technical equipment in the industrial chain of comprehensive straw utilization, scientifically formulate a batch of relevant technical specifications and standards for straw return to the field, collection, storage and transportation, fertilizer, feed and substrate, transform and promote a batch of mature technologies and facility equipment for comprehensive straw utilization suited to different regions, and cultivate and gather a batch of leading talents, technical backbones and extension personnel in comprehensive straw utilization. Fifth, strengthen organizational leadership, establish corresponding performance assessment systems, and do a good job in coordination mechanisms, publicity and training, work style and quality, and supervision and implementation, so as to ensure the orderly advancement of the comprehensive utilization of straw.