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, Li Honglian, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Henan Agricultural University, visited the living room of the Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference 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 the implementation of the agricultural power strategy in our province. The No. 1 document of the Provincial Party Committee in 2023 is based on the actual arrangements and deployment of our province to comprehensively promote rural development.The key work of village revitalization puts forward the 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. “The family is wrong. Why did Mr. Lan marry his only daughter to Barr? Is there any purpose for him to do this? Barr really can’t figure it out.” Pei Yi frowned and said.
Our province specifically proposes to ensure the stable and safe supply of grain and important agricultural products as the top priority and primary task in accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province. This 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, put 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 “cutting away green crops and destroying grain”, resolutely curb the “de-agriculturalization” of cultivated land and prevent agriculturalThe fields are “non-grain-oriented”.
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, and versatility, who can marry Sansheng? It is a blessing that only a fool would not accept. “Applying the requirements of intelligence, operation scale, management standardization, environmental ecological requirements and an investment per mu of no less than 4,000 yuan, we will complete the construction of 15 million acres of high-standard farmland demonstration areas and lay a solid foundation for production capacity improvement.
The third is to strengthen the quality of cultivated land and use measures such as deep plowing and plowing, scientific straw return, increased application of organic fertilizers, balanced fertilization, and reasonable crop rotation to steadily improve the quality of cultivated land. Improve the fertility of cultivated land
Second aspect, we must highlight the support of agricultural science and technology.
First, we must speed up the creation of a national-level international agricultural innovation highland and make every effort to promote the construction of Zhongyuan Agricultural Valley and Zhoukou Agricultural High-tech Zone, and promote agricultural science and technology to follow suit. , and move towards leading the way, accelerating 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 and rely on the country. Major platforms such as the Biological Breeding Innovation Center and Shennong Seed Industry Laboratory 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 improve the yield of major food crops. Focusing on corn and soybeans, we will promote high-yielding and density-tolerant varieties through demonstrations, integrate supporting technology models for increasing yields, preventing lodging, and integrating water and fertilizer, and strive to have significant yields per unit area. It is necessary to select a group of cities and counties with good development foundations and high yield levels to promote a large-scale and balanced increase in production, and rely on green, high-quality and efficient action projects to formulate a comprehensive package of good land, good seeds, good methods, good opportunities, and good systems. The solution is to create a batch of “ton-of-grain counties” and “ton-and-half-grain counties”
The third is to further strengthen the modernization of our province. Increase capital investment in the construction of agricultural industry technology system, expand the scale of the system, and attract more people.Many highly capable agricultural science and technology talents serve the construction of a strong agricultural province and food security work in our province.
The third aspect is to pay attention to agricultural disaster prevention and reduction. Climate disasters and biological disasters are the limiting factors that restrict the sustained and stable increase in grain production in our province. Due to climate change and changes in the farming system, various extreme disastrous weather and major pests and diseases occur frequently and reoccurring, which poses a serious threat to food security and production. Huge threats, such as floods and autumn waterlogging in 2021, low temperatures in the spring of 2023 and heavy rains during the wheat harvest, have caused huge losses to our province’s grain production. In recent years, wheat stripe rust, head blight, stem rot, corn southern rust and corn borer have recurred frequently in grain production in our province, one after another, posing a huge threat to the yield and quality of wheat and corn. Therefore,
First, we must strengthen meteorological disaster monitoring and early warning, scientifically prevent low-temperature freezing damage, high-temperature heat damage, drought, floods and other disasters, strengthen Technical guidance on scientific disaster prevention and reduction.
The second is to do a good job in monitoring, early warning and scientific prevention and control of major crop diseases and pests, improve the technical support capabilities for the prevention and control of major diseases and pests, and guide the advancement Professional unified defense and rule.
The third is to further expand the coverage of agricultural production insurance, increase disaster compensation, and further enhance farmers’ enthusiasm for growing grain.
The fourth aspect is to increase policy support.
First, we must strive for national support and increase investment and transfer of funds in the construction of major grain-producing areas and transfer-out areas. Payment intensity. The No. 1 document of the Henan Provincial Party Committee clearly proposed to actively implement a new round of grain production capacity improvement actions and strive to reach 140 billion kilograms of grain production capacity in our province by 2025. This is Henan’s practice and responsibility that the provincial party committee and the provincial government stand on the overall situation of building a strong agricultural country, based on the actual situation of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province, actively docking with national strategies, and shouldering the heavy responsibility of food security.
The second is to further increase policy support and financial support, encourage moderate-scale land management, and improve the level and efficiency of grain production.
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 accounts for 55% and 45% of the total grain output respectively. Autumn grain production occupies a very important position in the province’s grain production, but the average autumn grain yield in our province is less than 400 kg/mu, which is lower than that in the country. The average level has great potential for increasing production. Active and effective measures must be taken to continuously improve the level of autumn grain production.
The fourth is to continue to strengthen the party and government’s shared responsibilities and the grain production target responsibility system. We will hold accountable those who fail to do their job well enough to cause a significant reduction in grain production, further consolidate the foundation for food safety production, and fully implement political responsibility for food safety.
I believe that as long as we conscientiously do the work in the above four aspects, we will be able to achieve a sustained and stable increase in grain production and agricultural development in our province. With the goal of building a strong province, Henan will make greater contributions to national food security. (Henan CPPCC Integrated Media Center Liu Yang Li Tong/text video Han Miaoyu/host)