China News Service, September 3, According to the website of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs responded to the suggestions made by the representatives of the third session of the 13th National People's Congress.
The reply stated that the current farmer cooperatives are booming. As of the end of May 2020, the number of legally registered farmer cooperatives nationwide has reached 2.225 million, and the number of cooperatives has exceeded 10,000. Among them, the number of farmer cooperatives in Henan Province has reached 190,000, ranking second in the country.
According to reports, farmer cooperatives participate in market competition by organizing and serving farmers to "group" and play an active role in building modern agriculture and promoting rural revitalization. However, there are also problems such as small scale and weak strength, and the ability to drive services needs to be further enhanced.
Regarding increasing subsidies for socialized agricultural production services, one is to support socialized agricultural production services.
The central government attaches great importance to the socialization of agricultural production services and increases support through agricultural production development funds.
In 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance promoted the establishment of a financial transfer payment project for the socialization of agricultural production services, focusing on supporting the "one small and two large" (small farmers, large agricultural products, and large agricultural production counties) that mainly rely on agricultural production trusteeship In order to support service entities such as service-oriented farmer cooperatives, it will support service entities such as service-oriented farmer cooperatives, and give priority to service entities that install mechanical operation monitoring sensors, focusing on important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil and sugar and leading industries with local characteristics.
In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance's "Notice on Further Doing a Good Job in the Socialization of Agricultural Production", in 2019, various regions will determine the funding subsidy standards and subsidy methods according to local conditions.
In principle, the proportion of financial subsidies to service prices should not exceed 30%, and the total subsidy for each key link of a single crop per mu should not exceed 100 yuan.
For poverty-stricken areas and hilly and mountainous areas, in principle, financial subsidies account for no more than 40% of the service price, and the total amount of subsidies for each key link of a single crop per mu should not exceed 130 yuan.
Under the guidance of the central financial support, the production entrusted area in Henan Province has exceeded 100 million mu.
The second is to support agricultural machinery in deep plowing and land preparation.
In 2020, the central government will use agricultural production development funds to support the development of agricultural machinery for deep ploughing and land preparation.
According to the "National Agricultural Machinery Deep Loosening Operation Implementation Plan (2016-2020)", support suitable areas to carry out agricultural machinery deep loosening operations. The operating area is more than 150 million mu, and the operating depth generally reaches or exceeds 25 cm, breaking the plow bottom.
The government will purchase services, work first and then subsidize, and give full play to the role of social service organizations such as agricultural machinery cooperatives.
The third is to support the prevention and control of major crop diseases and insect pests.
The central government attaches great importance to the prevention and control of major crop diseases and insect pests, and supports the prevention and control of major crop pests and diseases through agricultural production relief funds.
According to the current fund management methods, all localities can coordinate the central financial subsidy funds, and apply biological control, comprehensive control, and ecological control technologies including electrolytic water technology as required to reduce the intensity of the use of harmful chemical pesticides, reduce agricultural non-point source pollution, and reduce Crop loss.
Agricultural production development funds are managed by "specialized projects + task list". The promotion of socialized services for agricultural production and the deep ploughing of agricultural machinery for land preparation are instructive tasks. The specific amount of funds is determined by localities in accordance with actual conditions.
In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will work with the Ministry of Finance and other departments to further improve relevant policies and measures, continue to summarize experience, continue to support socialized agricultural production services, and carry out agricultural machinery deep loosening and soil preparation and the prevention and control of major crop pests and diseases.
Regarding increasing policy support for farmer cooperatives, one is to focus on farmer cooperative demonstrations at the county level and above.
In accordance with the requirements of the central government on focusing on and focusing on the development of farmer cooperatives, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs strengthened the top-level design of promoting the high-quality development of farmer cooperatives, held a meeting to promote the high-quality development of family farms and farmer cooperatives, and made improvements to the norms of farmer cooperatives. Overall arrangement.
In 2019, with the approval of the State Council, 11 departments and units including the Central Agriculture Office and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued the "Several Opinions on Carrying out the Actions to Improve the Standards of Farmer Cooperatives", from increasing financial project support, innovating financial services, and strengthening talent support Increased policy support for the development of farmer cooperatives and other aspects, focusing on farmer cooperative demonstration cooperatives and farmer cooperative federations at the county level and above.
In 2019, we organized 7 special training sessions for leaders and counselors of farmer cooperatives, focusing on the themes of standardized development and capacity improvement of farmer cooperatives to improve the ability to run cooperatives in accordance with the law.
In the next step, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will continue to strengthen guidance and support services, carry out actions to improve the norms of farmer cooperatives, carry out various forms of demonstration and establishment, and enhance the development vitality and driving capacity of farmer cooperatives.
The second is to increase support for agricultural production development fund projects.
In 2020, the agricultural production development funds will be used to support the high-quality development of new agricultural business entities such as farmer cooperatives, and adopt the method of "building first and then replenishment, and rewards for replenishment" to build agricultural products storage and preservation facilities, and improve technology application and production and operation capabilities.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has launched a cold chain construction project for the storage and preservation of agricultural products to support the construction of energy-saving ventilation warehouses, air-conditioned warehouses and other facilities for new agricultural business entities such as farmer cooperatives.
The third is to play the role of government financing guarantee.
In 2020, the Ministry of Finance issued the “Notice on Giving Full Play to the Role of Government Financing Guarantees to Enhance Financing Credit for Small and Micro Enterprises and "Agriculture, Rural Areas and Agriculture", requiring government-controlled financing guarantee and re-guarantee agencies to actively provide support for small and micro enterprises and "three rural" entities. "Agricultural" entities increase credit, expand their business scale, perform compensation responsibilities in a timely manner, coordinate financial institutions to lend as soon as possible, and do not draw out loans, do not suppress loans, and continue to lend.
Local government financing guarantee and re-guarantee institutions at all levels will halve the financing guarantee and re-guarantee fees for small and micro enterprises in 2020, and the National Financing Guarantee Fund will waive or halve the re-guarantee fees for cooperative institutions.
The Ministry of Finance issued the "Guidelines for the Performance Evaluation of Government Financing Guarantees and Re-guarantee Institutions", setting a 40-point score on the performance evaluation system of policy benefit indicators (percentage system), focusing on assessing the scale and proportion of newly-added guarantees for supporting small-scale farmers. Increase the scale and proportion of guarantee business under 10 million yuan, as well as the guarantee rate and other indicators, and guide government financing guarantee and re-guarantee agencies to focus on supporting small and agricultural industries and reduce the rate.
Regarding the promotion of cooperation between farmers’ cooperatives and rural collective economic organizations, the 2016 "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Steadily Promoting the Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System" clearly stated that it encourages the integrated use of collective accumulation funds, government assistance funds, etc., through equity or equity participation in agriculture Industrialization leading enterprises, village-to-village cooperation, village-enterprise joint construction, poverty alleviation and development, and other forms of collective economy development.
The Central Agricultural Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other 11 departments and units jointly issued the "Several Opinions on Carrying out Farmer Cooperative Standardization Actions", which clearly requires the strengthening of interest linkages, and allows financial funds to be quantified to rural collective economic organizations and farmers. Invest in farmer cooperatives in the form of capital contribution so that farmers can share the benefits of development.
At present, some underdeveloped areas have invested resources such as the "four wastes" in farmer cooperatives, and converted financial funds and poverty alleviation funds into collective member shares, so that farmers can share more of the industry's value-added benefits, which has achieved good results.
In order to develop and expand the village-level collective economy, since 2016, the central government has allocated funds to support local exploration of effective use of resources, provision of services, property management, mixed management and other forms of collective economic realization, so as to enhance village collective self-development, self-service, and self-development Management ability and level.
In 2018, the Central Organization Department, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly issued the "Notice on Upholding and Strengthening the Leadership of Rural Primary Party Organizations to Support the Growth of Village-Level Collective Economy". It is planned to support approximately 100,000 administrative villages nationwide by 2022 Develop and expand the collective economy.
In the next step, the central government will continue to vigorously support the expansion of the village-level collective economy, and actively cooperate with relevant departments to urge and guide local governments to implement policies.