In 2014, the central government has allocated 21.4 billion yuan in subsidies for improved crop varieties

Recently, the central government allocated 700 million yuan in 2014 subsidy funds for improved crop varieties, mainly for peanut improved-variety subsidies in 12 provinces (regions, municipalities) including Hebei, Shandong and Henan, for potato improved-variety subsidies in 14 provinces (regions, municipalities) including Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Chongqing, Sichuan and Gansu, as well as the Heilongjiang reclamation area, and supported a pilot program for sugarcane improved-variety subsidies in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, to guide and encourage farmers to use improved crop varieties in agricultural production and raise the output and quality of agricultural products. Up to now, the central government has allocated 2.1445 billion yuan in 2014 subsidy funds for improved crop varieties, achieving nationwide coverage this year for crops such as rice, wheat, corn and cotton, full coverage in the main producing areas for soybeans and highland barley, full coverage in the main winter rapeseed producing areas of the Yangtze River basin for rapeseed, implementation of peanut improved-variety subsidies in 12 provinces (regions), and implementation of potato improved-variety subsidies in 14 main producing provinces (regions, municipalities).

In recent years, the central government has arranged subsidy funds for improved crop varieties at a stable level of more than 20 billion yuan each year, effectively promoting improved varieties and improved methods for crops, strongly promoting steady increases in grain output and sustained increases in farmers' incomes, and it has become a major agriculture-supporting policy for raising overall grain production capacity.