Strengthen policy orientation and investment effectiveness
The agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy is a national policy to support, strengthen, benefit and enrich farmers. As the economic situation changes, we must continuously improve the policy system for supporting agricultural mechanization and strengthen the orientation of policies and the effectiveness of input.
From the perspective of Jiangsu, agricultural mechanization has already taken the lead nationwide in entering an advanced stage. According to the objective laws of agricultural mechanization development, after entering this stage, agricultural mechanization development will place greater emphasis on the unity of speed and quality, give more prominence to the synchronized advancement of mechanization in mid-production links and pre-production and post-production links, further strengthen the coordinated development of mechanization levels in major crops and protected agriculture, and be more required to adapt to the accelerated development of new types of agricultural business entities, blazing a new path of agricultural machinery socialized services that organically unifies self-service and socialized service.
When implementing agricultural mechanization support policies, we should focus on the 3 measures of “guaranteeing, reducing and shifting.” “Guaranteeing” means ensuring that agricultural mechanization support funds are tilted toward key areas and key links such as full-process mechanization of grain production, mechanized straw return to the field, high-efficiency protected agriculture, new service systems and public service capacity building; “reducing” means giving play to the macroeconomic regulation and guiding role of agricultural mechanization support policies, and increasing efforts to control and reduce investment in machinery and areas with irrational structure and insignificant investment results; “shifting” means shifting funds and policies to new types of agricultural machinery operation service entities, operation subsidies, public service system building, credit and other links urgently needed by farmers and agricultural mechanization production, so as to better mobilize farmers' enthusiasm for purchasing and using machinery.
At the same time, we must persist in highlighting key points and improve the targeting and precision of policies. The main purpose of implementing the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy is still to solve the mechanization problem of bulk crops. For Jiangsu Province, it is to solve the problems of full-process and comprehensive coverage. Centering on the core task of food security, we should focus subsidies on machinery needed for key links in major crop production, and focus on solving the problem of full-process mechanization of rice and wheat production. On this basis, we should strive to break through mechanization in key and weak links, and promote the comprehensive development of mechanization in animal husbandry, fisheries, protected agriculture, forestry and fruit industry, and preliminary processing of agricultural products.
In addition, in our work we must also strive to achieve two commitments:
⟦NL> Persist in reform and improvement, and highlight the inclusive and stable nature of policies. Continue to implement open subsidies for machinery included in the scope of agricultural machinery subsidy items, organically combine policy guidance with farmers' needs, guide farmers to rationally purchase subsidized agricultural machinery, and tilt subsidy funds toward key weak links and specialized agricultural machinery cooperative organizations.
Persist in the market-oriented principle and safeguard the purchaser's autonomy in choosing and purchasing machinery. The original intention of establishing the subsidy policy is not to distort market competition, but to guide, through subsidy policy, safe, reliable, technically mature, advanced and applicable, energy-saving and environmentally friendly, and well-serviced agricultural machinery, guide and promote the healthy development of the agricultural machinery industry, and benefit the broad masses of farmers. We must be good at using market mechanisms to make limited fiscal funds play the greatest leveraging role, correctly handle the relationship between efficiency and fairness, not only cultivate and develop entities, focusing on supporting specialized cooperatives, family farms and other new types of agricultural production and operation entities, but also satisfy the broad farmers' desire to purchase machinery. Optimize institutional design, cut off improper connections between management departments and agricultural machinery enterprises, safeguard purchasers' independent choice of dealers to purchase machinery, with dealers independently determined and independently announced by production enterprises, and gradually decouple the operational process of subsidy policy implementation from agricultural machinery product dealership enterprises.