China News Service, July 18, according to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the agricultural and rural economy in the first half of the year was generally stable and stable.
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Summer grains are harvested again, and the basis for autumn grain production is better. The summer grain has overcome the adverse effects of local drought, warm winter and long growth, "falling into the spring cold", wheat diseases and insect pests, and has achieved a bumper harvest. The output reached 285.6 billion catties, an increase of 2.42 billion catties, an increase of 0.9% year-on-year, a record high. Among them, the wheat output was 263.4 billion catties, an increase of 1.5 billion catties, an increase of 0.6%, the quality was significantly improved, the first and second-class wheat increased, and the area of strong gluten and weak gluten wheat accounted for 35.8%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points year-on-year. The area of early rice has reversed the downward trend for seven consecutive years, and it has been harvested on a large scale, and a bumper harvest is in sight. The area of autumn grain has increased steadily, the crops in the field are growing well, and the expansion of Spodoptera frugiperda in the north has been effectively delayed, and there is a good basis for the annual grain harvest.
Pig production is better than expected, and major animal epidemics remain stable. Implement the detailed support policies, and promptly open up the production and marketing plugging points for feed during the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic. Both pigs and capable sows keep a fast recovery momentum. At the end of June, the number of breeding sows in the country was 36.29 million heads, which changed from negative to positive for the first time year-on-year, an increase of 5.49 million heads from the end of last year, and has returned to 81.2% at the end of 2017. The number of live pigs is close to the same period last year, reaching 340 million heads. At the end of the year, it increased by 29.29 million heads, and the inventory was equivalent to 77% at the end of 2017. In the first half of the year, 252.03 million live pigs were slaughtered, a decrease of 10.4 percentage points from the first quarter; pork production was 19.8 million tons, a decrease of 10 percentage points. The development of poultry and grass-fed animal husbandry has accelerated. The output of beef, mutton and poultry meat was 14.91 million tons, an increase of 3.4% year-on-year; the output of poultry eggs and milk increased by 7.1% and 7.9% year-on-year, effectively meeting market demand. African swine fever and avian influenza have been dealt with in a timely and effective manner, and no major regional animal epidemic occurred in the first half of the year.
There is ample supply of agricultural products and market prices are generally stable. Strive to strengthen the production and supply of agricultural products, carry out "point-to-point" production and marketing docking, mobilize large-scale e-commerce, wholesale markets, leading companies, etc. to carry out emergency supply guarantees, and the supply of grain and important agricultural and sideline products generally maintains a sufficient quantity and price stability, and "vegetable basket" products in large and medium-sized cities The supply has not been out of stock due to the outbreak. According to the monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the average monthly price of the three grain markets for rice, wheat and corn in the first half of the year was 121.24 yuan per hundred catties, which was flat year-on-year. The supply of pork has continued to improve, and prices have fallen for three consecutive months. Recently, prices have been driven by consumption for six consecutive weeks. The average wholesale price in June was 42.1 yuan per kilogram, an increase of 4.1% month-on-month. The price of raw milk rose slightly, increasing by 2.64% year-on-year in the first half of the year. The total output of winter and spring vegetables nationwide was 170 million tons, an increase of 2% year-on-year, and the average land price of 30 major vegetable varieties decreased by 8.4% year-on-year. The price of fruit first rose and then fell, and the average price of the six types of fruit wholesale market fell by 13.4% year-on-year. The agricultural product wholesale price 200 index fell for four consecutive months after reaching a high point in February, and fell to 112.92 points in June, which was roughly flat year-on-year.
The rural industry has recovered rapidly, and employment and entrepreneurship channels have been broadened effectively. The key enterprises of agricultural resources, breeding and livestock and fishery products processing were included in the list of key epidemic prevention and control enterprises in time, and policies such as special refinancing and deferred principal and interest payment were implemented. By the end of March, the national agricultural enterprises had basically resumed work, and the current production capacity has been restored. To the perennial level. Organized the establishment of 31 national modern agricultural industrial parks, 259 agricultural industrial towns, and 50 advantageous characteristic industrial clusters, driving the rapid recovery of rural industries in various regions. It is expected that the operating income of agricultural products processing enterprises above designated size in the first half of the year will be 6.2 trillion yuan, and the overall leisure agriculture The market resumption rate was close to 90%. From January to May, the online retail sales of agricultural products reached 247.62 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 54.3%. Strengthen the employment and entrepreneurship guidance services for migrant workers returning to their hometowns, carry out targeted employment and entrepreneurship training for farmers, expand the scale of implementing work-based relief, and create public welfare posts. As of the end of June, migrant workers returning to their hometowns have achieved local employment More than 12 million people. The situation of increasing farmers’ income has improved. In the first half of the year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 8,069 yuan, a nominal increase of 3.7%, a growth rate of 2.8 percentage points higher than the first quarter. After deducting price factors, the actual decline was 1%, which was 0.6 percentage points higher than the GDP growth rate. The growth rate of urban residents is 1 percentage point.
Consolidate the achievements of industrial poverty alleviation, and significantly increase the ability to bring poverty. Establish a tracking and contact mechanism for industrial poverty alleviation in uncapped counties, and promote funds, projects, and talents to lean towards poor areas. Open a hotline, set up an online docking area, organize market players such as e-commerce platforms, wholesale markets, and circulation associations to establish a precise docking mechanism with poor areas, hold various forms of agricultural product exhibition activities, promote more than 20 million online transactions, and promote consumer poverty alleviation The cumulative sales of 63,000 poverty alleviation products identified reached 78.46 billion yuan. Give full play to the role of 371 industrial technology consultants and more than 4,100 industrial technology expert groups to help solve industrial development problems such as the difficulty in selling agricultural and livestock products. Establish a catalogue of poverty-stricken subjects and poverty-relief products to drive poverty-stricken households to increase their income. Promote the increase in employment income of poor laborers. As of the end of June, the number of poor laborers working abroad exceeded 28.309 million, higher than the total number of migrant workers last year.
Green development was promoted solidly, and the quality of agricultural development continued to improve. Consolidate the results of the ban on fishing in 332 aquatic biological protection areas, formulate three work plans including strengthening the security of resettlement of banned and repatriated fishermen, special rectification to combat illegal fishing, cutting off the market of illegal industrial chains, etc. , Comprehensively promote the resettlement and security work of the Yangtze River fishing ban and withdrawal fishermen. Completed the annual target of 40 million mu of black land conservation farming in northeast China, continued to carry out actions to reduce fertilizers and pesticides, and promoted the utilization of livestock and poultry manure resources throughout the county system, covering 585 large counties of livestock and poultry farming. Each county has launched a support system for green agricultural development. The quality and safety supervision of agricultural products has been continuously strengthened, and the level has been steadily improved. The qualified rate of sampling inspections in the first half of the year has remained above 97.5%.
Rural reforms continue to deepen, and rural governance has steadily improved. Organize a second 30-year trial after the second round of land contract expiration. The pilot of the reform of the rural collective property rights system has been fully launched. Over 410,000 villages across the country have completed the reform, and more than 600 million members of collective economic organizations have been confirmed. Accelerate the implementation of family farm cultivation plans and standardization actions for farmers’ cooperatives. As of the end of June, there were more than 1 million family farms and more than 2.2 million farmer cooperatives nationwide, radiating nearly half of the country’s farmers. Organized more than 200,000 social service organizations to provide farmers with agricultural machinery operations, disease and pest control and other production trust services. In the first half of the year, the area of trust services such as grain and other large crops was about 900 million mu, an increase of 25% year-on-year. Strengthen the construction of the rural governance system, focus on solving difficult problems, deepen the pilot demonstration of rural governance, and do a good job of farmers' burden supervision and inspection.
Investment in agriculture and rural areas has gradually picked up, and infrastructure shortcomings have accelerated. Actively expand funding channels for rural revitalization. In the first half of the year, 27 provinces issued local government special bonds for agriculture and rural areas of 86.5 billion yuan, and recommended 100,000 agricultural small, medium and micro enterprises to financial institutions. The loan balance reached 140.7 billion yuan. Formulate guidelines for social capital investment in agriculture and rural areas to guide the orderly investment of social capital. Give full play to the role of investment promotion, accelerate the implementation of a number of major projects such as high-standard farmland, agricultural products storage and fresh-keeping cold chain facilities, rural human settlement environment improvement, modern agricultural industrial parks, and advantageous characteristic agricultural industrial clusters. The high-standard farmland construction scale accounts for the annual task volume In 54% of the total, more than 3 million households were newly renovated in key areas. In the first half of the year, the investment in fixed assets of the primary industry reached 829.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.8%, and the growth rate was 12.1 and 4.8 percentage points higher than the investment in the secondary and tertiary industries, respectively.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs pointed out that the agricultural and rural economy in the first half of the year was generally stable, stable and improving, and effectively played the role of the "three rural" ballast stone. However, it should also be noted that the current impact of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic is still continuing. The world economy is in a severe recession. The domestic economic operation is facing greater pressure. The internal and external environment of the agricultural and rural economy is complex and grim. The tasks of stabilizing production and supply of important agricultural products such as grain and pigs are difficult. Increasing difficulty in increasing employment income and increasing uncertainty in agricultural trade will require a high degree of attention.
In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will coordinate and promote the normalization of the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic situation and the key tasks of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”, focus on ensuring supply, stabilizing employment, promoting income growth, and preventing risks. Industrial poverty alleviation tasks, actively broaden the channels for farmers to increase their income, deepen the green development of agriculture, strengthen the construction of agricultural and rural infrastructure, continue to promote rural reforms, ensure that the grain output is stable at 1.3 trillion catties, and the hog production capacity has basically returned to near-normal levels. Provide a strong support for a decisive victory from poverty, and to build a well-off society on schedule.