China's fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world total

Fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world's total

Qian Keming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chief Economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that as the economy enters a new normal, the internal and external environment for China's agricultural development is also undergoing profound changes. In the future, we can no longer pursue a "twelfth consecutive increase," or even a "twentieth consecutive increase," and must accelerate the transformation and upgrading of agriculture. Qian Keming said that China's annual fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world's total, equivalent to the sum of the United States and India; the pesticide utilization rate is only 35%, 10-20 percentage points lower than developed countries. Overall, the marginal returns on China's agricultural inputs have clearly declined, the environmental capacity is approaching its limit, resource constraints are tightening further, and the original development model is already difficult to sustain.

Zhu Baocheng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and President of the China Agricultural Products Development and Service Association, suggested that agricultural products be classified and stratified according to different production regions, economic conditions and development stages, and that the goals and measures for agricultural brand development be included in the "13th Five-Year Plan." Products with high technical content, large market capacity, high added value and low energy consumption should be included in the strategic plan, and the industrial chain, value chain and supply chain of brand agriculture should be established and improved, so as to enhance the influence of brand agriculture and guide it to become bigger and stronger.