This website news  On February 5, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national video conference on spring field management and spring plowing preparations, to deploy and arrange spring field management and spring plowing preparations early. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong stressed that, from the high starting point of the grain “eleven consecutive increases”, continuing to maintain the good momentum of grain and agricultural development is what the overall situation of reform and development requires. Agricultural departments at all levels must, with a high degree of self-awareness and firm confidence, closely focus on the main line of work of “stabilizing grain, increasing income, adjusting structure, improving quality, increasing efficiency, and transforming the development model”, firmly establish the thinking of securing a bumper harvest through disaster resistance, extensively mobilize and arouse, rely on scientific and technological progress, and strengthen the implementation of measures, quickly set off an upsurge in spring plowing production, and seize the initiative for winning a bumper summer grain harvest and a bumper grain harvest for the whole year.

Yu Xinrong pointed out that grain output increasing year after year and continuing to defend the high level to secure a bumper harvest is a test of the will and character of agricultural departments at all levels. To proactively adapt to the new normal of economic development, the task of ensuring supply is heavier, and the pressure to enhance international competitiveness is greater, requiring innovative ideas to seek development. To unremittingly advance agricultural modernization, the task of developing production and ensuring supply has not changed, and the position of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers” as the top priority has not changed, requiring always keeping the string of food security taut. To unswervingly advance the “transformation of the development model and adjustment of structure” in agriculture, the emphasis is on enhancing production capacity, and the key lies in advancing agricultural scientific and technological innovation, requiring a solid foundation for stabilizing grain and increasing income.

Yu Xinrong stressed that this year the foundation for summer grain production is relatively good, but it still has to pass through multiple hurdles such as drought, late spring cold, dry hot wind, and pests and diseases. All localities must base efforts on disaster resistance to secure a bumper harvest, extensively mobilize, increase efforts, and do a good job in implementing key measures. It is necessary to effectively strengthen classified guidance, achieving both promotion of weak seedlings and control of excessive growth, and dual prevention of drought and cold; effectively strengthen pest and disease prevention and control, with the focus on early prevention and early control and timely prevention and control of stripe rust, fusarium head blight, and aphids, the “two diseases and one pest”; effectively do a good job in guidance services, ensuring that technical plans are in place and key technologies are in place; effectively do a good job in demonstration and driving, deeply advancing the creation of high-yield grain and the tackling of green yield-increasing models, integrating a set of reproducible technical models that are high-yield and efficient, resource-saving, and environmentally friendly, and building a number of demonstration areas that advance both yield increase and efficiency improvement and are sustainable with coordinated production and ecology.

Yu Xinrong required that while doing a good job in spring field management, all work of spring plowing preparations should be coordinated, to lay a solid foundation for a bumper grain harvest for the whole year. It is necessary to highlight doing a good job in the “one transformation and four guarantees”: vigorously grasp innovation-driven transformation of the development model, focusing on advancing innovation in the agricultural socialized service mechanism and agricultural scientific and technological innovation, implementing measures to save fertilizer, save pesticide, and save water, and promoting coordinated development of production and ecology. Vigorously grasp policy implementation to guarantee area, implementing various support policies without compromise, encouraging and guiding farmers to plant more grain and plant good grain, and striving to keep the total grain sown area for the whole year stable at last year's level. Vigorously grasp agricultural machinery operations to guarantee progress, doing a good job in machinery scheduling, advancing socialized services, and completing spring plowing and spring sowing tasks to high standards and with high quality. Vigorously grasp agricultural input supervision to guarantee supply, deeply carrying out special governance actions against counterfeit agricultural inputs, continuing to advance trustworthy agricultural inputs going to the countryside and into villages, and guiding farmers to scientifically select and purchase agricultural inputs. Vigorously grasp disaster prevention and reduction to guarantee safety, achieving proactive disaster avoidance, scientific disaster resistance, and active disaster relief, and ensuring the smooth carrying out of spring plowing production.

The meeting also deployed and arranged work such as the production of “shopping basket” products, the quality and safety of agricultural products, and the prevention and control of major animal diseases in spring.

The meeting was chaired by Vice Minister of Agriculture Chen Xiaohua, with sub-venues set up in 31 provinces (regions and municipalities) and 1020 cities (counties), and more than 23000 participants.