How can the "vegetable basket" be developed to achieve balanced supply?
In recent years, all localities have made coordinated efforts to advance a new round of “vegetable basket” development, promoting stable production growth, an increasingly rich variety of products, steadily improving quality, and a continuously improving market system, generally safeguarding vegetable supply and market stability. However, with the development of urbanization, all localities are also facing considerable pressure in ensuring balanced supply of “vegetable basket” products, and problems such as seasonal “expensive to buy, hard to sell” and an irrational product mix occur from time to time. In “vegetable basket” development, Beijing, Hubei and other places have both emphasized coordinated advancement and, proceeding from reality, each had their own priorities, carrying out beneficial explorations of balanced supply.
Beijing Municipality Supports “Vegetable Basket” Development with Informatization
Digital Management of Farms and Vegetable Fields
In accordance with the overall requirements of Beijing Municipality's “vegetable basket” project development, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture implemented the “vegetable basket” supply emergency support system development project, deeply advancing “vegetable basket” informatization and strengthening the support of information resources and information systems for “vegetable basket” supply.
Improve the “vegetable basket” project information system to serve leadership decision-making and industry management. The system includes 4 subsystems: livestock and poultry farm information management, aquaculture farm information management, “vegetable basket” production data analysis, and basic vegetable field information management. It has realized the online mapping of more than 2,000 large-scale livestock and poultry farms, more than 4,000 aquaculture farms, and more than 7,000 vegetable field plots across the city, providing decision-making reference for increasing the self-sufficiency rate of major agricultural products. The system integrates production data of the city's vegetable, aquaculture, and livestock industries, realizes flexible statistical analysis of the city's “vegetable basket” product production information and integrated analysis of agricultural product production and sales information, and provides decision-making reference for analyzing the supply and demand situation of “vegetable basket” products. In addition, the system also integrates the agricultural product source and flow system and the agricultural product quality and safety supervision system, providing reference for serving the “vegetable basket” control rate and quality and safety qualification rate.
Organize the development of the “vegetable basket” APP software to serve the production and operation management of vegetable parks. The “vegetable basket” APP includes 4 modules: production and sales records, market quotations, my vegetable garden, and friendly links. Among them, production and sales records can record, query, and manage data on the planting time, sown area, output and sales volume, and production costs of different vegetables, enabling producers to have a clear picture and make orderly arrangements; market quotations share the daily vegetable price data of 21 wholesale markets monitored by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, and users can customize them, providing reference for reasonably arranging vegetable production and sales; my vegetable garden can display information on the vegetable growing environment of garden plots as well as park weather and video conditions, making it convenient for producers to respond promptly to disastrous weather.
Focus on building facility vegetable Internet of Things technology demonstration parks and explore a new model for the integrated development of information technology and the vegetable industry. Implement the “vegetable basket” supply emergency support system development project, installing and deploying park video monitoring terminals and weather monitoring terminals for 25 facility vegetable standard parks, realizing remote monitoring of meteorological disaster conditions in key parks. At the same time, in conjunction with the development of new variety and agricultural machinery technology experiment and demonstration bases, focus on building facility vegetable Internet of Things technology demonstration parks, installing video monitoring terminals in 25 greenhouses, deploying Internet of Things sensor terminals in 40 greenhouses, and carrying out intelligent control demonstrations such as water-saving irrigation, greenhouse ventilation, and shading.
Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture
Hunan Province Builds a “Vegetable Basket” Direct Sales Project for the Provincial Capital
Build Collection and Distribution Centers to Open Up Production and Sales Channels
Hunan Province has made every effort to handle the production and supply of “vegetable basket” products, achieving stable investment of “vegetable basket” project development funds, continuously improving product production capacity, and steadily increasing farmers' income.
Strengthen organizational leadership for “vegetable basket” project development. In 2014, Hunan Province launched a new round of government institutional reform, clarifying that the Market Information Division of the Provincial Agricultural Commission would undertake the coordination work of the “vegetable basket” project. The office of the provincial “vegetable basket” project leading group formulated the Implementation Plan for the Pilot Work of Extended Performance Management for the Stable Development of “vegetable basket” Product Production, organized a meeting of liaison officers from cities and prefectures, and made thorough arrangements for “vegetable basket” project development.
Firmly grasp the development of “vegetable basket” product production capacity. Increase fiscal investment. In 2014, the provincial level invested more than 33 million yuan to develop “vegetable basket” product production. In the first half of the year alone, the vegetable planting area increased by 5.9% year on year, and the total vegetable volume increased by 6.09% year on year. Increase fiscal fund support for major pig-producing areas, strengthen pig market price information services, and implement the pig purchase and storage policy.
Build a “vegetable basket” direct sales project for the provincial capital. Focusing on the development of the provincial capital's “vegetable basket” direct sales project, focus on handling the “three major projects” of direct sales and distribution of agricultural products in the provincial capital——the development of direct sales terminals, collection and distribution centers, and service platforms. By increasing support for the development of direct sales outlets and the renovation and upgrading of stores, actively cultivate direct sales and distribution mainstay enterprises, and guide the establishment of direct sales terminals in various forms such as fresh food supermarkets, community direct sales stores, direct sales areas in farmers' markets, group unit distribution, and e-commerce. Focusing on sorting centers, processing and packaging, cold storage facilities, and cold-chain transport vehicles, promote enterprises to establish well-functioning origin collection and distribution centers and urban collection and distribution centers according to local conditions, open up docking channels between agriculture and supermarkets, communities, schools, and factories, and build a point-to-point production and sales docking network. Improve the market information service system, realize real-time dynamic updating of demand, and guide bases to carry out planned production. Accelerate the application of new information technologies such as the agricultural product Internet of Things, remote monitoring high-definition video, and quality and safety traceability barcodes in direct sales and distribution projects, actively prepare to build an e-commerce platform for direct sales and distribution of agricultural products, and explore new distribution models such as designated distribution, door-to-door distribution, and special counter distribution.
By the end of last year, the provincial capital had built more than 1,500 direct sales outlets of various types, with an annual agricultural product sales capacity of 600,000 tons and average daily sales revenue of 8.7 million yuan. Prices of agricultural products in direct sales stores were generally 10%-30% lower than surrounding markets.
Market Information Division of the Hunan Provincial Agricultural Commission
Hebei Province Vigorously Develops Facility Vegetables
All Vegetable Industrial Parks Realize QR Code Management
Hebei Province's vegetable industry, taking provincial-level modern vegetable industrial parks and ministerial-level standardization creation as the starting point, vigorously develops facility vegetables, firmly grasps market sales, strictly supervises quality, and the vegetable industry continues to show good development momentum. In 2014, the sown area of melons and vegetables reached 20.54 million mu, total output was 88.73 million tons, and output value reached 170.7 billion yuan.
Advance the development of provincial-level modern vegetable industrial parks. Arrange budget funds of 50 million yuan to subsidize the development of 100 provincial-level modern vegetable industrial parks. Focusing on facility parks, continue to promote the development of solar greenhouses and plastic arch sheds, popularize ecological control technologies, and improve the level of green cultivation. Hold a meeting on the application of quality traceability and Internet of Things technology in modern vegetable industrial parks, conduct training on content such as quality safety, quality traceability, the Internet of Things, and integrated water and fertilizer management, and all created parks have fully realized QR code quality traceability management.
Do a good job in ministerial-level standardization creation. Strive for 31.5 million yuan in vegetable standardization subsidy funds from the Ministry of Agriculture, and 33 creation units fully completed creation tasks in November 2014 and passed acceptance. In addition, through public solicitation, voluntary application, and expert review, recommend Tangshan City Fengnan District Juxin Vegetable Professional Cooperative and Changli County Jiacheng Vegetable Cooperative to undertake the project of newly building large-scale facility vegetable planting bases.
Promote the sale of Hebei vegetables in Beijing. In recent years, it has successively participated in multiple docking negotiations with the Beijing Municipal Agricultural Commission and Bureau of Agriculture, and held two negotiations with Xinfadi to promote production and sales cooperation. From late July to the end of August 2014, together with the provincial government office in Beijing, the Beijing Agricultural Products Logistics Association, Beijing Wumart Group, and vegetable cooperatives in 6 counties of Zhangjiakou, Hebei, it organized the “Bashang vegetables into the capital and into Wumart” promotional activity, promoting the sale of 10,000 tons of off-season Bashang vegetables. Together with the provincial office in Beijing and the provincial poverty alleviation office, it jointly organized the “Agricultural Products from the Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Area Around the Capital Promotion Activity in Beijing.” Promote “agriculture-supermarket docking” and “agriculture-community docking.” At present, 90 Hebei vegetable professional cooperatives have established stable production and sales cooperation relationships with more than 20 supermarkets in Beijing, with an average daily supply of more than 1,000 tons, accounting for about 36% of supermarket procurement. 8 cooperatives have built 108 chain direct-sale stores in Beijing residential communities, with daily operating volume exceeding 200 tons, an increase of 30% over 2013.
Effectively handle product quality management. Subsidy funds at and above the provincial level are mainly used for materialized subsidies for pollution-free and green production, guiding creation units to popularize ecological control technologies. Guide producers to improve production management archives, implement the quality traceability system, incorporate the establishment of a quality traceability system using barcode and QR code information technology into the assessment and acceptance system of vegetable production support projects at and above the provincial level, implement a one-vote veto, and more than 130 project undertaking units have established traceability systems.
Vegetable Industry Development Division of the Hebei Provincial Department of Agriculture
Chengdu Municipality Coordinatedly Advances “Vegetable Basket” Project Development
Gradient Transfer of Bases Stabilizes Supply
Chengdu Municipality, Sichuan Province, focuses on systematically studying and coordinatedly advancing “vegetable basket” project development. “Vegetable basket” product output has grown steadily, varieties have become increasingly rich, quality has continuously improved, the market system has gradually improved, and “vegetable basket” development has generally maintained a stable and relatively fast good development momentum.
Focusing on production base development, consolidate the “vegetable basket” foundation. “Vegetable basket” product production bases have been established in 14 districts (cities) and counties, realizing gradient transfer of production. Support the capacity improvement of the city's existing year-round basic vegetable bases, and establish a minimum pig inventory system. At the same time, advance regional cooperation in jointly building bases.
Taking improving the market system as the key, safeguard the circulation of “vegetable basket” products. Encourage wholesale markets to accelerate informatization and carry out transportation and transfer business within and outside the province. The city has gradually formed an agricultural product wholesale trading and circulation system with 4 large wholesale markets as the core and 17 origin wholesale markets as the hubs. Treat vegetable markets as public-benefit facilities supporting urban public construction, build standardized vegetable markets, and carry out standardized renovation of old markets. Establish the state-owned “Yimin Vegetable Market Operation and Management Company,” establish a negotiated pricing mechanism with settled sales enterprises, and sell affordable agricultural and sideline products at prices 10%-15% lower than surrounding traditional markets; encourage “agriculture-supermarket docking,” and many supermarket enterprises in the city have established direct procurement relationships with more than 240 farmers' professional cooperatives.
Taking quality supervision as the core, ensure the safety of “vegetable basket” products. Establish a rapid-response emergency mechanism for agricultural product quality and safety, and build a nationally leading pig product quality and safety traceability system with full-process supervision. Strengthen the supervision system for the use of agricultural inputs, the management system for agricultural product production bases, and the supervision system for agricultural product quality and safety. Advance the development of county-level agricultural product quality and safety testing system projects. By the end of 2014, of the city's 14 districts (cities) and counties in the second and third circles, 12 districts (cities) and counties had been included in Ministry of Agriculture project development.