What new expectations are there for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies?

Recently, during grassroots research, many farmers said that the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy is very good, and at the same time hoped that relevant departments could increase policy and mechanism innovation to make this good policy more effective.

First hope: for agricultural machinery included in the national, provincial, city, and county (district) agricultural machinery purchase subsidy scope, maximum selling prices should be set through government bidding, so as to make it easier for machinery buyers to negotiate prices with subsidized agricultural machinery manufacturers and dealers.

Second hope: at the office where county-level agricultural machinery management departments accept applications for the "Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Agreement," post on the wall the categories, models and names, subsidy amounts, maximum selling prices, manufacturers, and sales telephone numbers of all agricultural machinery within the subsidy scope for the current year and the previous year at the national, city, and county (district) levels, as well as the names and sales contact telephone numbers of subsidized agricultural machinery dealers in the province, city, county (district), and neighboring areas of the county (district), so as to make it easier for machinery buyers to determine which manufacturer or dealer to buy from and to negotiate prices with them.

Third hope: at the office where county-level agricultural machinery management departments accept applications for the "Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Agreement," set up an "Agricultural Machinery Purchase Guidance Desk," assign 1~2 agricultural machinery professional and technical personnel who are familiar with the central agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, have rich professional knowledge of agricultural machinery, know the quality and performance advantages and disadvantages of various agricultural machinery products, and have a strong sense of responsibility, specifically responsible for receiving the public's questions related to machinery purchase, assisting machinery buyers in choosing suitable models, and serving as advisers so that machinery buyers can buy subsidized agricultural machinery of good quality and low price.

Fourth hope: county-level agricultural machinery management departments should provide free online machinery purchase services for machinery buyers, reducing farmers' machinery purchase costs.

Fifth hope: local county (district) agricultural machinery management departments should enter without omission into the provincial agricultural machinery purchase subsidy network the selling price of each purchase of subsidized agricultural machinery in the current year and the previous year, so that subsidized agricultural machinery buyers across the province can screen out subsidized agricultural machinery manufacturers and agricultural machinery dealers with low selling prices and good quality.

Sixth hope: subsidized agricultural machinery manufacturers should adopt direct sales as much as possible to directly deliver agricultural machinery products, reduce purchase links, and achieve matching between supply and demand.

Seventh hope: county-level agricultural machinery management departments should reasonably determine the conditions for priority machinery purchase and priority reimbursement of subsidies. The types and categories of agricultural machinery for priority purchase and the list of subsidy recipients should be fully publicized. In particular, when the number of applicants for priority purchase of agricultural machinery exceeds the planned quota, subsidy recipients must be determined by public lottery in accordance with the principles of "openness, transparency, and fairness." Under-the-table operations, backdoor dealings, and decisions by a small number of people are strictly prohibited.

Eighth hope: county-level agricultural machinery management departments should form a "one-hall" joint office service model composed of relevant departments such as the county (district) agricultural machinery extension station, agricultural machinery supervision station, and agricultural machinery training school, providing machinery buyers with one-stop services from applying to purchase machinery, machinery inspection, machinery photographing, issuing license plates, spraying numbers, and stamping steel numbers, to entering subsidy information and accepting settlement applications for subsidy funds, thereby greatly reducing the time, cost, and effort machinery buyers spend running procedures.

Ninth hope: county-level agricultural machinery management departments should scientifically calculate and reasonably compile the local county (district) "annual plan for applying for central agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds," and reasonably determine the "proportion of agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds for priority machinery purchase and priority reimbursement in the annual machinery purchase subsidy fund quota," and should not excessively crowd out the "subsidy funds reimbursed to machinery buyers of non-key-development agricultural machinery," so as to prevent the phenomenon in which a large number of eligible machinery buyers of "non-key-development agricultural machinery" buy machinery at full price but cannot be reimbursed for agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds.

Tenth hope: staff of county-level agricultural machinery subsidy fund disbursement offices should strictly follow the requirements of the "Operational Norms and Procedural Rules for the Disbursement of Central Agricultural Machinery Purchase Funds," operate transparently, not favor relatives and friends, not abuse power for personal gain, not practice fraud, and not solicit or accept bribes. At the same time, it is also hoped that county (district) discipline inspection and supervision departments and the discipline inspection commission of the county (district) agriculture and animal husbandry bureau will effectively strengthen supervision and inspection of the disbursement of agricultural machinery purchase subsidy funds, strengthen verification of machinery purchase beneficiary recipients, prevent fraudulent subsidy claims, and truly implement whole-process supervision of county-level agricultural machinery management personnel involved in the disbursement of central agricultural machinery purchase subsidies.