Ministry of Agriculture Advances the Building of Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zones and Rural Reform Pilot Zones
On May 4, it was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the Department of Industrial Policy and Regulation of the Ministry of Agriculture announced on April 30 the 2015 national policies and measures for deepening rural reform, developing modern agriculture and promoting increases in farmers' incomes, including support policies related to the building of modern agriculture demonstration zones and rural reform pilot zones.
The support policies for the building of national modern agriculture demonstration zones include further increasing support for the building of national modern agriculture demonstration zones and forming a joint force in which fiscal funds, infrastructure investment, financial capital and other types of funds work together to support the development of the demonstration zones. First, continue to implement the “reward in place of subsidy” policy and expand the scope of rewards and subsidies; for demonstration zones with great intensity of investment integration, solid innovative measures, well-developed cooperative organizations, upgrading of leading industries and obvious increases in farmers' incomes, arrange 10 million yuan in “reward in place of subsidy” funds to support and encourage the demonstration zones to accelerate the innovation of agricultural systems and mechanisms. Second, arrange 600 million yuan in central budgetary investment in capital construction to increase support for the building of drought- and flood-resistant standard farmland in the demonstration zones, with construction investment of no less than 1500 yuan per mu, of which the central fixed subsidy is 1200 yuan. Third, coordinate and increase financial support for the demonstration zones, promote the improvement of the agricultural financing service system in the demonstration zones, and strive to ensure that the loan balance of financial institutions such as China Development Bank, the Agricultural Development Bank of China and the Postal Savings Bank of China for the building of the demonstration zones this year is no less than 30 billion yuan.
⟦NL> The support policies for the building of rural reform pilot zones include: the work of rural reform pilot zones in 2015 will focus on thoroughly implementing the decisions and arrangements of the central authorities on continuing to deepen rural reform, with the launch and implementation of the second batch of rural reform pilot tasks, deepening the reform exploration of the first batch of pilot zones, and strengthening the transformation and promotion of rural reform pilot results as the key points, improve working mechanisms, strengthen institutional development, improve management and services, and strive to carry out in-depth exploration and experimentation in aspects such as deepening the reform of the rural land system, improving the agricultural support and protection system, establishing a modern rural financial system, deepening the reform of the rural collective property rights system, and improving rural governance mechanisms, so as to strive to form a batch of replicable and promotable experience.
Industry insiders said that according to statistics, there are currently 283 agricultural demonstration zones across the country, distributed in a dotted pattern among various regional categories and various terrains, with a total area of 1.27 million sq km, accounting for 13% of the country's land area. In terms of leading industries, the total number of demonstration zones in the 13 major grain-producing provinces has reached 173, accounting for about 60%. Through national policy support, modern agriculture demonstration zones and reform pilot zones will later play an important leading role in grain production and the exploration of new rural models.