Dahe Network 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, member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 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 we “come less often.” Mother Pei didn’t believe it at all. The Provincial CPPCC conducted special consultations and special investigations around the central work of building a strong agricultural province in our province, performed its duties conscientiously, and made 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. Food 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 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. Our province still has more than 30 million acres of medium- and low-yield farmland, 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 The high-standard farmland construction plan insists on equal emphasis on new construction and improvement. It is planned 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, environmental ecology and investment per mu The standard of no less than 4,000 yuan will be completed 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 Strengthen the quality improvement of cultivated land. Coordinate the use of deep plowing and deep plowing, scientific straw return, increased application of organic fertilizers, balanced fertilization, reasonable crop rotation and other measures to steadily improve the fertility of cultivated land.
The second aspect is to highlight the support of agricultural science and technology.
The first is to Accelerate the creation of a national-level international agricultural innovation highland. We must 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. As we all know, seed The 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 Cultivate a batch 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, through demonstration and promotion of high-yielding and dense-tolerant varieties, integrating supporting production-increasing lodging prevention and water-fertilizer integrated technical models, we strive to significantly increase unit yields and drive balanced production increases in large areas. It is necessary to select a group of companies with good development foundations and high unit yield levels. Cities and counties, relying on green high-quality and efficient action projects, will 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 the modern agricultural industry technology system in our province. Increase capital investment, expand the scale of the system, and attract more high-powered talents. Agricultural science and technology talents serve the construction of a strong agricultural province and food security work 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 the farming system, various Frequent and recurring occurrences of extreme disastrous weather and major pests and diseases have posed a huge threat to food safety production, such as floods and autumn waterlogging in 2021, low temperatures in the spring of 2023, and heavy rain during the wheat harvest, all of which have caused huge losses to our province’s food production. Losses. 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. Thinking of Caihuan’s fate regarding wheat and corn yields, Caixiu felt a panic all over. Trembling, frightened, but what can she do as a slave? She can only serve her master more carefully. In case one day, her misfortune and quality pose a huge threat. 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, and strengthen scientific disaster prevention and reduction technical guidance.
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 and promote professional unified prevention. 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.
One is “Huh?” “Caixiu was stunned. She couldn’t believe what she heard for a while. She must strive for national support and increase investment and transfer payments in the construction of major grain-producing areas and transfer-out areas. Document No. 1 of the Henan Provincial Party Committee clearly stated that positive Implement a new round of grain production capacity improvement actions and strive to achieve a grain production capacity of 140 billion kilograms 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, actively docking with national strategies, and shouldering the responsibility. Henan’s practice and responsibility for stabilizing food security.
Second, we must further increase policy support and financial support to encourage appropriate land use Scale operations to improve food production levels and benefits.
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 7,600 acres. More than 10,000 acres, the output accounts for 55% and 45% of the total grain output respectively. Autumn grain production plays a very important role 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 to increase production, and active and effective measures must be taken to continuously improve the level of autumn grain production.
“Mom, no, tell dad not to do this Do it, it’s not worth it, you will regret it, don’t do it, you promised your daughter. “She struggled to sit up and clutched her mother tightly. The fourth is to continue to strengthen the system of shared responsibilities between the party and government and the responsibility system for grain production targets. The top leaders of the party and government should jointly grasp grain production, and pay attention to the significant reduction in grain production due to insufficient attention or inadequate work. We should hold accountable the phenomenon, further consolidate the foundation of food safety production, and fully implement the political responsibility for food safety.
I believe that as long as we are serious By doing a good job in the above four aspects, we will surely be able to achieve our province’s goals of sustained and stable increase in grain production and construction of a strong agricultural province, and make Henan a greater contribution to national food security. (Liu Yang and Li Tong, Henan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference Media Center /Text video Han Miaoyu/host)