Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 21 (Reporters Hu Lu and Yu Wenjing) The current global epidemic of new pneumonia continues to spread. Chinese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Changfu said on the 21st that a common crisis requires a united response. He suggested that the G20 should work together to maintain the stability of the international agricultural supply chain and food security.
Han Changfu made the above statement at the special meeting of the Group of 20 Ministers of Agriculture held on the 21st.
"Agriculture is a ballast stone for stabilizing the economy and society. The more you face the risk, the more you must stabilize agriculture." He said that during the epidemic prevention and control period, China strengthened the production and supply of grain and "vegetable basket" products, and so many large cities did Rice noodles, meat and eggs, fruits and vegetables, fish and other supplies are sufficient and prices are stable. At the same time, we should promote the resumption of production in an orderly manner to ensure the normal production of agricultural production in spring. Chinese agriculture has withstood this test.
Han Changfu proposed to work together to maintain the stability of the international agricultural supply chain and food security. First, we must do a good job in agricultural production, and strive to restore the order of agricultural production, especially in the northern hemisphere, when farming is correct, and ensure the smooth planting of crops. The second is to stabilize agricultural product trade, reduce trade restrictions, smooth the international logistics of grain and important agricultural products, and maintain the agricultural product trade order and market stability. The third is to strengthen multilateral cooperation, support the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Programme and the International Fund for Agricultural Development and other international organizations to play a role, strengthen agricultural production information sharing, experience exchange, technical cooperation, policy coordination, and jointly make agricultural due to global anti-epidemic Contribution.
He said that the Chinese government will always regard agriculture as the top priority, make overall plans for epidemic prevention and control and agricultural production, continue to implement the policy of strengthening farmers, benefiting farmers and enriching farmers, and strive to seize this year's harvest of food and agriculture.