Ministry of Agriculture Strengthens Services for Farmers' Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Website News Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Services for Farmers' Innovation and Entrepreneurship to Promote Farmers' Employment and Income Growth," requiring agricultural departments at all levels to further create a favorable ecological environment for farmers' innovation and entrepreneurship, stimulate the innovation vitality and entrepreneurial potential of hundreds of millions of farmers, and build a new engine for agricultural and rural economic development.
The "Opinions" point out that farmers are the most numerous, most promising and most in-demand important group in promoting “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” under the new normal and new stage. Since the reform and opening up, China's farmers' innovation and entrepreneurship have flourished, cultivating a large number of new growth points and reserve teams for the agricultural product processing industry, leisure agriculture and rural secondary and tertiary industries, and making tremendous contributions to economic and social development. All localities should use platform building, policy support, entrepreneurial guidance, public services, publicity and promotion as the main means, with rural capable people, returning migrant workers, retired military personnel and college student village officials founding agricultural product processing, leisure agriculture, folk and ethnic craft industries and rural service industries as the focus, providing them with various high-quality professional services, promoting a highly active farmer innovation and entrepreneurship group, and fostering an even stronger atmosphere for farmer innovation and entrepreneurship.
⟦NL> The "Opinions" emphasize that for farmers introducing new business forms, new technologies, new products and new models for innovation, and for small and micro enterprises founded by farmers using their own accumulated resources, discovering opportunities, integrating resources and adapting to market demand, it is necessary to promote the implementation of innovation and entrepreneurship support policies, establish a batch of county-level models for policy implementation, and guide more local governments to create policies, lower thresholds, improve the environment and provide services for farmer innovation and entrepreneurship. Efforts should be made to build innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration bases and internship bases, further strengthen training for farmer innovation and entrepreneurship instructors and entrepreneurial leaders, and encourage vigorous development of “Internet+” and e-commerce. It is necessary to actively organize innovation and entrepreneurship farmers to connect with enterprises, well-off villages, specialized markets and parks, forming a pattern of enterprise-driven, famous village-driven, market-driven and park-driven farmer innovation and entrepreneurship. It is necessary to continuously explore financing models for farmer innovation and entrepreneurship, use social funds to establish farmer innovation and entrepreneurship development funds, and continuously reduce the financing costs of farmer innovation and entrepreneurship. Persist in hard entrepreneurship, vigorously advocate and carry forward the “four thousand spirit” of township enterprises - thinking of a thousand and one ways, saying a thousand and one words, enduring a thousand and one hardships, and traveling a thousand and one mountains and rivers - cultivate entrepreneurial spirit, and improve the efficiency of innovation and entrepreneurship.
The "Opinions" require that all localities attach great importance, strengthen organizational leadership, and effectively improve the guidance level of service work. The competent departments for agricultural product processing, leisure agriculture and township enterprises should respectively study and formulate plans according to their responsibilities, strengthen coordination with relevant departments, study policy measures, create a good atmosphere, and let mass entrepreneurship and innovation in rural areas become a common practice.