China News Service, Hohhot, December 7 (Reporter Li Aiping) A reporter learned from the Inner Mongolia Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Department on the 7th that this year's grain output in Inner Mongolia reached 76.806 billion catties, an increase of 3.526 billion catties from the previous year, setting a new record high.
So far, Inner Mongolia has ushered in the eighteenth harvest year, and grain output has remained above 70 billion catties for four consecutive years.
The Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Inner Mongolia stated that this data is the latest news released by the National Bureau of Statistics of China on the 6th.
According to reports, this year's national food production ranking in Inner Mongolia has risen by 2 places, jumping to sixth place. The increase in grain production accounted for 13.18% of the national increase, ranking fourth in the country, and its position as China's 13 main grain producing areas has become more stable.
It is worth mentioning that in 2021, Inner Mongolia will list grain output as the main annual target for the first time, ensuring that the total grain output is stabilized at more than 70 billion catties.
In the past year, Inner Mongolia has always put the protection of national food security as the top priority, and timely implemented various national policies that benefit farmers. This year, it has issued 16.86 billion one-time subsidies for farmland fertility protection, corn, soybean and potato production, agricultural machinery purchase, farmland rotation, and grain-growing farmers. Yuan (Renminbi), fully releasing the policy signal of "emphasis on agriculture and grain".
At the same time, relevant departments of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry of Inner Mongolia encouraged farmers to actively take out insurance and implemented policy-based insurance covering an area of 81.8 million mu, effectively reducing planting risks and mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for farming and growing grain.
In addition, Inner Mongolia resolutely curbs the "non-agriculturalization" of arable land and prevents "non-grainization", clarifies that 93 million acres of permanent basic farmland in Inner Mongolia is mainly used for food production, resolutely curbs the abandonment of arable land, and guides local classification and organization of re-cultivation and re-cropping. Increase grain sown area.
The reporter learned that since the beginning of this year, Inner Mongolia has intensified the construction of improved seed breeding bases, cultivating 6 major seed production counties, and the area of crop improved seed breeding bases has reached more than 1 million mu. Among them, potato virus-free seed potato breeding technology, scale, and production capacity rank first in the country. , Soybean seed production area ranks third in the country, and corn seed production area is fifth in the country.
At present, the coverage rate of good varieties of crops in Inner Mongolia is stable at over 98%.
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