Autumn and Winter Planting Campaign Kicks Off, Consolidating the Foundation for Next Year's Summer Grain Harvest
On September 23, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national video conference on autumn and winter planting, analyzing this year's autumn and winter planting production situation and arranging the deployment of autumn and winter planting and the current autumn management and autumn harvest work. Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu instructed and required that all localities must remain unwavering in the goal of promoting stable grain development, base themselves on disaster resistance to secure a bumper harvest, and grasp autumn and winter planting production without letting up on a single step, vigorously implement policies to stabilize the area, promote key technologies to improve sowing quality, strengthen management to ensure strong seedlings overwinter safely, and consolidate the foundation for next year's summer grain harvest.
Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He pointed out that autumn and winter planting is the beginning of a year's agricultural production and also a crucial battle for securing next year's summer grain and oil harvest. Agricultural departments in all localities must, with the courage to overcome difficulties and the spirit of pragmatic innovation, plan ahead, advance solidly, grasp implementation link by link, rely on science and technology to boost production, resolutely fight the autumn and winter planting production campaign well, and firmly grasp the initiative for a bumper grain harvest. They must fully recognize the difficulties faced by this year's autumn and winter planting, including increased difficulty in raising per-unit yield, increased difficulty in stabilizing the area, increased pressure in drought resistance to ensure sowing and seedling protection, and increased downward pressure on domestic grain prices, and respond actively and effectively. They must firmly grasp favorable conditions such as strong signals from the state's emphasis on agriculture and grain, sufficient quantities and stable prices of agricultural materials, and sufficient supply of high-quality seeds, firm up confidence, and create new achievements again.
Yu Xinrong emphasized that this year's autumn and winter planting must follow the general requirement of “seeking progress while maintaining stability,” stabilize the sown area, strive to raise per-unit yield, and strive to keep the winter wheat area stable at 338 million mu and the winter rapeseed area stable at more than 100 million mu. The focus is on advancing the “five grasps and five guarantees”: vigorously grasp policy implementation to guarantee the area, strengthen policy publicity and information guidance, advance large-scale operation, and stabilize the sown area. Vigorously grasp rush harvesting and rush sowing to guarantee progress, harvest in good time and free up stubble in a timely manner, expand timely sowing, and ensure uniform and complete seedlings. Vigorously grasp intensive and meticulous cultivation to guarantee quality, strictly control the variety threshold, land preparation threshold, and sowing threshold, and improve sowing quality. Vigorously grasp pre-winter management to guarantee strong seedlings, do a good job in fertilizer and water regulation, irrigate overwintering water in good time, and ensure strong seedlings overwinter safely. Vigorously grasp supervision of agricultural materials and agricultural machinery to guarantee safety, do a good job in market supervision, strengthen machinery inspection and operator training, and ensure the quality of agricultural materials and the safety of agricultural machinery operations. Complete the autumn and winter planting tasks to high standards and high quality, and lay the foundation for next year's summer grain harvest.
⟦NL> Yu Xinrong required that agricultural departments at all levels must continue their efforts and go all out to grasp the later field management of autumn grain and autumn harvest work, with the focus on implementing measures such as frost prevention and pest and disease prevention, and carefully organize autumn grain harvesting and autumn land preparation to ensure a bumper autumn grain harvest is secured. At the same time, coordinate the grasp of vegetable production, winter agricultural development, and other autumn and winter agricultural production to ensure the completion of the year's agricultural production targets and tasks.
Song Jianchao, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and head of the discipline inspection group stationed at the ministry, presided over the meeting. The four provinces of Henan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Gansu made exchange speeches.