(Two Sessions Express) Li Keqiang: Fully capable of ensuring food security for 1.4 billion people

  China News Service, Beijing, March 5th. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivered a government work report to the Fourth Session of the 13th National People’s Congress on the 5th, saying that solving the problem of food is always the top priority, and we must work hard and have the ability to guarantee it. Food security for 1.4 billion people.

  Li Keqiang pointed out that the ability to guarantee the supply of grain and important agricultural products should be improved.

The key to ensuring food security is seeds and cultivated land.

It is necessary to strengthen the protection and utilization of germplasm resources and the selection and promotion of high-quality varieties, and carry out research on key agricultural technologies.

Raise the construction standards and quality of high-standard farmland, improve irrigation facilities, strengthen the protection of cultivated land, and resolutely curb the "non-agriculturalization" of cultivated land and prevent "non-graining".

Build a national food security industry belt.

  Li Keqiang pointed out that the subsidies for grain farmers should be stabilized, the minimum purchase prices for rice and wheat should be raised appropriately, and the scope of the pilot program for full cost and income insurance should be expanded.

Stabilize the sown area of ​​grain and improve yield and quality.

Take multiple measures to expand oil production.

Develop livestock and poultry aquaculture and stabilize pig production.

Strengthen the prevention and control of animal and plant diseases.

Ensure that the market supply and prices of agricultural products are basically stable.

Carry out food saving actions.

Solving the problem of food is always the top priority. We must work hard to ensure food security for 1.4 billion people.

  Li Keqiang said that it is necessary to steadily promote rural reform and rural construction.

Consolidate and improve the basic rural management system, maintain stable and long-term land contracting relationships, steadily promote various forms of moderately large-scale operations, and accelerate the development of specialized social services.

Deepen the reform of supply and marketing cooperatives, collective forest rights, forest farms in state-owned forest areas, and agricultural reclamation.

Increase the proportion of land transfer income used in agriculture and rural areas.

Strengthen the construction of basic public services and public infrastructure in rural areas, and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas within the county.

Initiate a five-year action to improve the rural human settlement environment.

Ensure that migrant workers' wages are paid in full and on time.

Speed ​​up the development of rural industries, strengthen the county economy, and broaden the employment channels for farmers.

Do everything possible to increase the income of hundreds of millions of peasants.

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