Agricultural trade volume increased by 8.2% year-on-year
Beijing, December 25 (Reporter Gao Yuncai) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Since this year, agricultural and rural departments at all levels have gone all out to overcome difficulties, agricultural foreign trade has achieved new breakthroughs, and multilateral and bilateral international cooperation has shown new highlights.
In the first 11 months, the trade volume of agricultural products was US$222 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8.2%.
Stabilize the basic market of agricultural foreign trade, and relieve the difficulties of agriculture going out.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs initiated the construction of high-quality agricultural trade development bases, guiding Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hebei and others to use bases to drive standardized production, and organize innovative forms of online and offline agricultural exhibitions such as Food Expo and Potato Expo to promote exports. With the adjustment of the tax rebate policy, the export of specialty agricultural products such as fruit and tea achieved growth against the trend, and the growth rate of aquatic product exports turned from negative to positive.
At the same time, through the Sino-Russian agricultural cooperation mechanism, we will promote the solution of the shortage of spring seeding personnel for overseas enterprises, establish a stable agricultural foreign trade foreign investment information direct reporting system, "point-to-point" guide key enterprises to respond to the epidemic and resume work and production, and hold multiple trade and investment matchmaking activities to help enterprises Develop foreign business during the epidemic.
Strengthen foreign aid to respond to the epidemic and show the image of a responsible major country.
At the beginning of the year, desert locusts ravaged Pakistan and many African countries, posing a serious threat to local food security.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs sent a working group to go deep into the front line of the disaster situation in Pakistan, help formulate disaster relief plans, carry out locust eradication training; guide domestic enterprises to resume work and resume production in an emergency, and provide medicine and equipment to Pakistan.
At the same time, the two sides signed relevant cooperation documents to establish a sustainable plant pest management center in Pakistan to achieve long-term prevention and control.