China News Service, July 28. According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, since this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has been actively guiding all regions to overcome the adverse effects of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, inverting the construction period and wall chart operations, and coordinating the prevention and control of the epidemic and the construction of farmland. Make positive progress. As of the end of June, 43.385 million mu of high-standard farmland had been built across the country, accounting for 54.2% of the annual mission of 80 million mu. In 2020, more than half of the high-standard farmland construction task was completed.
Data map: Farmers are busy farming in the farmland. Photo by Zhao Chunliang
According to reports, in order to accelerate the construction of high-standard farmland, this year the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has strengthened overall planning, advanced deployment, and strengthened dispatch and consultation, and adopted a series of effective measures.
In terms of fund guarantee, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs actively consulted with the Ministry of Finance and the Development and Reform Commission to accelerate the implementation of central subsidies for farmland construction in 2020. At present, the two channels of central fiscal transfer payment and central budget investment have all issued 86.7 billion yuan in subsidies for farmland construction in 2020, an increase of 780 million yuan over the previous year. At the same time, it urges localities to increase local financial investment, actively guides local governments to use high-standard farmland construction to adjust income from newly-added arable land indicators, issue local government special bonds, etc., and implement construction funds through multiple channels. Some places have vigorously explored the modes of financial credit, self-financing and self-construction by owners, introducing social capital into high-standard farmland construction, and broadening project investment channels by issuing bonds.
In terms of incentive measures, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of high-standard farmland construction in various provinces (cities, districts) for the second time this year in accordance with the Implementation Measures for Evaluation and Incentives for High-Standard Farmland Construction, and rewarded provinces that have completed their tasks. Report to provinces whose completion status is not satisfactory. Five provinces including Heilongjiang, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, and Guangdong have been approved by the General Office of the State Council. Each province has received 200 million yuan of incentive funds for the construction of high-standard farmland, which has effectively mobilized the enthusiasm of the construction of high-standard farmland.
In terms of monitoring and supervision, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has accelerated the construction and improvement of the national farmland construction monitoring and supervision platform, fully carried out the online filling of high-standard farmland construction project information, and clearly required all provincial agricultural and rural departments to do a good job in project data verification and summary work, and strictly The project quality control, complete data filling and reporting on time, and implement dynamic monitoring and supervision throughout the process.
In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will further implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, guide and supervise the construction of farmland in the benchmarking year, accelerate the construction progress, strengthen project quality management, ensure that the annual construction tasks are completed on schedule, and continue to improve agricultural production conditions To lay a solid foundation for ensuring national food security.