Ministry of Agriculture Aims to Keep Wheat Planting Area in 5 Provinces Stable at Around 240 Million Mu
Our newspaper report: On October 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium on wheat production development in the Huang-Huai-Hai region in Hebei. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong emphasized at the meeting that in wheat production development, stabilizing area is an important prerequisite, and increasing per-unit yield is the fundamental approach. For a period to come, it is necessary to
Our newspaper report: On October 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium on wheat production development in the Huang-Huai-Hai region in Hebei. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong emphasized at the meeting that in wheat production development, stabilizing area is an important prerequisite, and increasing per-unit yield is the fundamental approach. For a period to come, in accordance with the overall approach of “stabilizing area, focusing on per-unit yield, improving quality, lowering costs, raising benefits, increasing input, and enhancing capacity,” efforts should be made to stabilize the sown area, strengthen policy publicity and information guidance, arrange the planting structure well, guide farmers to plant more wheat and plant good wheat, and strive to keep the wheat area in the 5 provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui stable at around 240 million mu.
Yu Xinrong pointed out that wheat is an important staple grain variety and must rely on domestic self-sufficiency; the Huang-Huai-Hai region is a advantageous production area for wheat and must be courageous in shouldering heavy responsibilities. To promote the stable development of wheat production, it is necessary both to summarize and promote successful experience and to pay more attention to solving problems such as water resource constraints, disaster impacts, relatively low benefits, shallowing of the plow layer, excessively large seeding rates, and a relatively low rate of unified seed supply, so as to make every effort to promote sustained and stable increases in wheat production.
In addition, he also said that efforts should be made to strengthen infrastructure construction, build a batch of new high-standard farmland with guaranteed harvests despite drought or excessive rain, improve cultivated land quality, strengthen agricultural machinery and equipment, and enhance the ability to withstand natural disasters; make efforts to promote scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the breeding of a batch of new varieties that are cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, and heat-damage-resistant, and integrate a batch of regional and standardized high-yield and high-efficiency technical models, so as to provide technical support for sustained and stable increases in wheat production; make efforts to promote disaster prevention and mitigation, do a good job in the four key links of fine land preparation, appropriate seeding, pest and disease prevention and control, and “one spray and three preventions,” and achieve proactive disaster avoidance, scientific disaster resistance, and effective reduction of disaster impacts; make efforts to promote large-scale operations, accelerate the cultivation of new types of business entities, build a new type of operation service system, and improve the scale, organization, and specialization level of wheat production.
Yu Xinrong pointed out that wheat is an important staple grain variety and must rely on domestic self-sufficiency; the Huang-Huai-Hai region is a advantageous production area for wheat and must be courageous in shouldering heavy responsibilities. To promote the stable development of wheat production, it is necessary both to summarize and promote successful experience and to pay more attention to solving problems such as water resource constraints, disaster impacts, relatively low benefits, shallowing of the plow layer, excessively large seeding rates, and a relatively low rate of unified seed supply, so as to make every effort to promote sustained and stable increases in wheat production.
In addition, he also said that efforts should be made to strengthen infrastructure construction, build a batch of new high-standard farmland with guaranteed harvests despite drought or excessive rain, improve cultivated land quality, strengthen agricultural machinery and equipment, and enhance the ability to withstand natural disasters; make efforts to promote scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the breeding of a batch of new varieties that are cold-tolerant, drought-tolerant, disease-resistant, and heat-damage-resistant, and integrate a batch of regional and standardized high-yield and high-efficiency technical models, so as to provide technical support for sustained and stable increases in wheat production; make efforts to promote disaster prevention and mitigation, do a good job in the four key links of fine land preparation, appropriate seeding, pest and disease prevention and control, and “one spray and three preventions,” and achieve proactive disaster avoidance, scientific disaster resistance, and effective reduction of disaster impacts; make efforts to promote large-scale operations, accelerate the cultivation of new types of business entities, build a new type of operation service system, and improve the scale, organization, and specialization level of wheat production.