Dahe Net News A strong country must first strengthen its agriculture, and only then can its country be strong. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that ensuring a stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products has always been the top priority in building a strong agricultural country.
As a major agricultural and grain-producing province, how can Henan further shoulder the responsibility of food safety production and accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural province? Recently, “Hua’er, my poor daughter…” Lan Mu couldn’t hold back the tears anymore, bent down and hugged his poor daughter, sobbing. Li Honglian, a member of the CPPCC, professor and doctoral supervisor at Henan Agricultural University, visited the living room of the Henan Provincial Committee of the CPPCC to answer questions on this topic.
Moderator: Hello, Committee Member Li, you have been working on the front line of agricultural teaching and scientific research for a long time. In your opinion, I What goals and key points should the province seize in promoting the construction of a strong agricultural province?
Guest: The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and this year’s Central Rural Work Conference have important implications for the construction of agriculture. Powerful countries have made important deployments and arrangements. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “A strong country must first strengthen its agriculture, and only by strong agriculture can the country be strong. Without a strong agricultural country, there will be no modern and powerful country; without agricultural and rural modernization, socialist modernization will be incomplete.”
Our Henan Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government attach great importance to agricultureThe implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country in our province. The No. 1 document of the Provincial Party Committee in 2023 comprehensively promotes key rural revitalization tasks based on the actual arrangements and deployment of our province, and proposes overall requirements and specific arrangements for accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province. This year, our Provincial Political Consultative Conference conducted special consultations and special investigations around the central work of building a strong agricultural province in our province. We performed our duties conscientiously and provided suggestions and suggestions.
In summary, the goal of our province’s agricultural power is mainly reflected in the “three strong and two high”:First, the ability to ensure the supply of food and agricultural products is strong; second, the ability to innovate in agricultural science and technology is strong; third, the competitiveness of rural industries is strong; fourth, farmers have high income levels; fifth, the level of rural modernization is high.
Our province specifically proposes to ensure the stable and safe supply of food and important agricultural products as the top priority in accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province. and the top priority, which fully reflects the Henan people’s responsibility and awareness of the country’s overall situation. As we all know, there is no stability without agriculture, and there will be chaos without food. Food security is an important foundation for national security. Grain is a major advantage of our province, and it is also a business card and a trump card of our province. We must always keep in mind the General Secretary’s instructions, place food security in a very important position in the construction of a strong agricultural province, and show new responsibilities and new actions in ensuring national food security.
Moderator: As you said, food is a major advantage of Henan, and it is also a business card and a trump card. . So in your opinion, how can we further improve food security and continue to achieve the strategic goals of food security?
Guest:To continue to achieve the strategic goal of food security, we have many aspects of work To do this, I think the focus should be on the following four aspects:
First, we must strengthen the foundation of agriculture Facility construction. Aarable land is fundamental to food security. We must seize the key point of cultivated land, implement the method of storing grain on the ground, and tap into the grain production capacity.
The first is to firmly guard the red line of cultivated land protection. Strictly guard against “unintentional cutting of green crops and destruction of grain”, resolutely curb the “non-agriculturalization” of cultivated land and prevent the “non-grainization” of farmland.
The second is to accelerate the construction of high-standard farmland. There are still more than 30 million acres of medium- and low-yield farmland in our province, and some of the high-standard farmland facilities built in the early stage are in disrepair. In recent years, our province has organized and implemented a new round of high-standard farmland construction planning, insisting on equal emphasis on new construction and improvement, and plans to build 87.5 million acres of high-standard farmland by 2025; in accordance with construction standardization, equipment modernization, application intelligence, operation scale, management standardization, Environmental ecological requirements and an investment per mu of no less than 4,000 yuan are required to complete the construction of 15 million acres of high-standard farmland demonstration areas, laying a solid foundation for increasing production capacity.
The third is to strengthen the quality improvement of cultivated land. Coordinate the use of measures such as deep plowing and plowing, scientific straw return, increased application of organic fertilizers, balanced fertilization, and rational crop rotation to steadily improve the fertility of cultivated land.
The second aspect is to highlight the support of agricultural science and technology.
First, we must speed up the creation of a national-level international agricultural innovation highland. It is necessary to fully promote the construction of Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley and Zhoukou Agricultural High-tech Zone, promote agricultural science and technology from following and running to leading, and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological power into agricultural competitive advantages. Everyone knows that the seed industry is the “chip” of agriculture and the commanding heights of agricultural science and technology. Our province must conscientiously implement the “six major actions” to revitalize the seed industry, rely on major platforms such as the National Biological Breeding Innovation Center and Shennong Seed Industry Laboratory to carry out key technological research and accelerate the cultivation of a number of breakthrough new varieties with high yield, high quality and stress resistance. .
The second is to carry out actions to increase the yield of major food crops. Focusing on corn and soybeans, we will promote high-yielding and dense-tolerant varieties through demonstrations and integrate supporting production-increasing lodging prevention and water-fertilizer integration technology models, striving to significantly increase unit yields and drive balanced production increases in large areas. It is necessary to select a group of cities and counties with good development foundation and high yield level, rely on green, high-quality and efficient action projects, formulate comprehensive solutions for the integration and assembly of good land, good seeds, good methods, good opportunities and good production by varieties, and create a batch of “tons” Grain County”, “Ten and a half Grain County”.
The third is to further strengthen the construction of our province’s modern agricultural industry technology system. Increase capital investment, expand the scale of the system, and attract more highly capable agricultural science and technology talents to serve in the construction of a strong agricultural province and food security in our province.
Third aspect, we must pay attention to agricultural disaster prevention and reduction.Climate disasters and biological disasters are limiting factors that restrict the sustained and stable increase in grain production in our province. Due to climate change and changes in farming systems, various extreme disastrous weather and major pests and diseases occur frequently and reoccurring, posing a huge threat to food security and production, such as floods and autumn waterlogging in 2021, low temperatures in spring and wheat harvest in 2023. The heavy rains have caused huge losses to the grain production in our province. In recent years, wheat stripe rust, head blight, stem rot, corn southern rust and corn borer have recurred frequently, one after another, and have affected wheat. Both corn yield and quality pose a huge threat. Therefore,
First, we must strengthen meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning, and scientifically prevent low-temperature freezing damage and high temperature. In order to prevent heat damage, drought, floods and other disasters, we must strengthen scientific disaster prevention and reduction technical guidance.
Second, we must do a good job in monitoring and early warning of major crop diseases and insect pests. and scientific prevention and control, improve the technical support capabilities for the prevention and control of major pests and diseases, and guide and promote professional unified prevention and control. “Why are you up and not sleeping for a while? “He asked his wife softly.
The third is to further expand the coverage of agricultural production insurance, increase disaster compensation, and further enhance farmers’ ability to grow grain.
The fourth aspect is to increase policy support
First, we must strive for state support and increase investment and transfer payments in the construction of major grain-producing areas and transfer-out areas, as clearly stated in the No. 1 document of the Henan Provincial Party Committee. Actively implement a new round of grain production capacity improvement actions, striving to reach 140 billion kilograms of grain production capacity in our province by 2025. This is the provincial party committee and the provincial government’s position on the overall situation of building a strong agricultural country, based on the actual situation of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province, and actively aligning with the national strategy. Henan’s practice and responsibility in shouldering the important task of food security
The second is to further increase policy support and financial support to encourage land use. Operate on a moderate scale to improve grain production levels and efficiency.
The third is to pay equal attention to summer and autumn. While attaching importance to summer grain production, increase the emphasis on autumn grain production. The summer grain sowing area in our province is more than 85 million acres, and the autumn grain sowing area is more than 76 million acres. The output respectively accounts for the total grain production. Autumn grain production accounts for 55% and 45% of the province’s grain production. Autumn grain production occupies a very important position in the province’s grain production. However, the average autumn grain yield per mu in our province is less than 400 kg/mu, which is lower than the national average. There is great potential for increasing production. Active measures must be taken to Effective measures will be taken to continuously improve the level of autumn grain production.
The fourth is to continue to strengthen the shared responsibility of the party and government and the responsibility system for grain production targets, and the top leaders of the party and government. We should also focus on grain production, hold accountable the phenomenon of substantial reduction in grain production due to insufficient attention or inadequate work, further consolidate the foundation of food safety production, and fully implement political responsibility for food security.
I believe that as long as we conscientiously do the work in the above four aspects, we will be able to achieve the goal of sustained and stable increase in grain production in our province and the construction of a strong agricultural province, and contribute to national food security. Make greater contributions to our Henan Province (Liu Yang Litong, Henan Provincial Committee of CPPCC Media Center / Text and Video Han Miaoyu / Host)