On February 28, the State Council Information Office held a regular State Council policy briefing to introduce the relevant situation of the State Council departments handling the proposals of the National People's Congress and the proposals of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2022.
Wei Baigang, chief economist, director of the general office, and spokesperson of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said at the briefing that in 2022, the country will launch a project to increase soybean and oil production capacity. The expansion of oil crops has achieved remarkable results that can be assessed.
We have vigorously promoted grain-bean rotation in the Northeast region, expanded the area of net soybean crops, and promoted more than 15 million mu of soybean-corn belt compound planting in the Huanghuaihai, Northwest, Southwest and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Through intercropping and high-low crop matching, we can fully utilize The advantages of sidelines have basically achieved the goal of "not reducing the production of corn and increasing the production of soybeans for one season".
The annual soybean area reached 154 million mu, an increase of 27.43 million mu, and the output reached 20 million tons for the first time, and the self-sufficiency rate increased by 3 percentage points a year.
(Xie Longfei)
Responsible editor: [Lu Yan]