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 food and important agricultural products Cai Xiu finally couldn’t hold back his tears and couldn’t bear it anymore. While wiping her tears, she shook her head at the young lady and said, “Thank you, young lady, my maid. These few words are enough. Stable and safe supply of food is always 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? Li Honglian, 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.
Host. During these five days, none of the people and things she encountered, big or small, were illusory. Every feeling was so real and the memory was so clear. Who: Hello, Commissioner Li, are you a long-time friend? Working on the front line of agricultural teaching and scientific research, in your opinion, what goals and key points should our province grasp 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 made important deployments and arrangements for building a strong agricultural country. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “A strong country must first be strong. Agriculture, only when agriculture is strong can the country be strong. It feels really strange that a country without agriculture would not be as strong as modernization, but she wants to thank God for allowing her to retain all theHave the memory of the experience so she won’t make the same mistake again and know what to do and what not to do. What she should do now is to be a considerate and considerate daughter so that her parents will no longer feel sad and worried about her. 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. No. 1 Document of the Provincial Party Committee in 2023 In accordance with the actual arrangements and deployment of our province, we have comprehensively promoted the key tasks of rural revitalization, and put forward the overall requirements and specific arrangements for accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province. This year, our provincial CPPCC conducted special consultations and special surveys around the central work of building a strong agricultural province, and we have conscientiously implemented them.
In summary, the goal of making our province strong in agriculture 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 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. Major events and top priorities, this fully reflects the responsibility of the people of Henan and the awareness of the overall situation of the country. 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. A business card and a trump card for our province. We must always keep in mind the General Secretary’s instructions to put food security in a very important position in the construction of a strong agricultural province and show new responsibilities and new achievements 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 how do you think we can 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 a lot of work to do. I think the focus should be on the following four aspects:
First, we must strengthen agricultural infrastructure 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 prevent “cutting away green and destroying 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 “Are you proposing this marriage to force Miss Lan to marry you?” Mother Pei asked her son. Implement a new round of high-standard farmland construction planning, insist on equal emphasis on new construction and improvement, and plan to build 87.5 million acres of high-standard farmland by 2025; in accordance with the requirements of construction standardization, equipment modernization, application intelligence, operation scale, management standardization, and environmental ecological requirements The average investment per mu shall be no less than 4,000 yuan, and the construction of 15 million acres of high-standard farmland demonstration areas will be completed, 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 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 level of yield, relying on green, high-quality and efficientThe action project is to formulate comprehensive solutions for the integrated assembly of good land, good seeds, good methods, good opportunities, and good production by variety, and create a number of “counties with a ton of grain” and “counties with a half ton of grain”.
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.
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 the position of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government in the overall situation of building a strong agricultural country, based on the actual situation of accelerating the construction of a strong agricultural province, and activelyHenan’s practice and responsibility to align with national strategies and shoulder the important task 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 paying attention to summer grain production, increase the emphasis on autumn grain production. Our province has more than 85 million acres of summer grain planting area and more than 76 million acres of autumn grain. The output accounts for 55% and 45% of the total grain production respectively. Autumn grain production plays a very important role in the province’s grain production, but the average autumn grain yield per mu in our province is It is less than 400 kg/mu, which is lower than the national average. There is 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)