From the previous "eat enough" to the current "eat well", the seemingly inconspicuous seeds have contributed a lot.
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. If we want to secure China's rice bowl, we must work harder around "seeds".
On August 4, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs "Notice on Supporting the Development of National Seed Industry Formation Enterprises" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") was announced, and the list of national seed industry formation enterprises was announced, dedicated to "breaking problems, making up for shortcomings, and strengthening." Advantages", the revitalization of the seed industry has a new point of view.
To support the enterprise is to support the seed industry
Who are the shortlisted companies?
69 enterprises including Yuan Longping Agricultural High-tech Co., Ltd. are national crop seed industry formation enterprises, 86 enterprises including Wen's Food Group Co., Ltd. are national livestock and poultry seed industry formation enterprises, and 121 enterprises including Fujian Ningde Fufa Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. The enterprise is a national aquaculture seed industry formation enterprise.
It is understood that in order to further implement the action of supporting excellent seed industry enterprises, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently selected the above-mentioned 69 crops and 86 livestock from more than 30,000 seed industry enterprises across the country based on key indicators such as enterprise scale, innovation capability and development potential. Poultry, 121 aquatic seed industry enterprises and institutions, to accelerate the construction of the backbone of seed industry revitalization.
To support enterprises is to support the seed industry.
Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview with this reporter that enterprises are an important subject in promoting the development of the seed industry.
In the past, there has always been a big gap between scientific research and breeding, market selection, and farmers' application, while seed companies directly face the market and are more oriented to agricultural production and practical application.
In the modern technological innovation system, enterprises play the main role, and now the revitalization of the seed industry should also place seed industry enterprises in a prominent position.
In order to realize the self-reliance and self-improvement of seed industry science and technology, and the independent and controllable seed sources, we must take the support of enterprises as the key to turning the seed industry over.
The "Notice" emphasizes that it is necessary to strengthen the dominant position of enterprises in innovation, guide the agglomeration of resources, technology, talents, capital and other elements to key advantageous enterprises, and create a group of aircraft carrier-type leading enterprises with core R&D capabilities, industry-driven capabilities, and international competitiveness, "invisible" "Champion" enterprises and professional platform enterprises, and accelerate the formation of advantageous seed industry enterprise clusters.
"Break problems, make up for shortcomings, and strengthen advantages"
What are the outstanding features of the "69+86+121" companies this time?
The formation of national seed industry enterprises that "break problems, make up for shortcomings, and strengthen advantages" deserves attention.
The reporter found that in the announced list of companies, each company clearly defined its formation and the corresponding species name.
For example, in the list of crop seed industry formation enterprises, Shandong Shouguang Vegetable Seed Industry Group Co., Ltd. was selected as the formation of vegetable breaking problems, and Yuan Longping Agricultural High-tech Co., Ltd. was also selected as the formation with strong advantages in rice and formation in corn to supplement shortcomings.
The "Notice" makes it clear that enterprises in the "breaking problem" formation should focus on a small number of provenances that mainly rely on imports, accelerate the introduction and creation of excellent germplasm resources, promote the close integration of production, education and research, and cultivate a number of new varieties with independent intellectual property rights.
Enterprises in the formation of "making up for shortcomings" should focus on provenances with gaps, fully tap excellent germplasm resources, and narrow the gap with the international advanced level as soon as possible in terms of variety yield, performance, and quality.
Enterprises with "strong advantages" should focus on superior provenance, accelerate the application of modern breeding technologies, consolidate and strengthen the advantages of breeding innovation, and improve the commercial breeding system.
Specialized platform-based enterprises (institutions) should give full play to their advantages in technological innovation, financial support, industry self-discipline, and talent training, and continue to provide support services for breeding innovation.
According to the "Notice", all localities should make formation enterprises as key support objects, but be careful not to create another formation and disperse resources.
"Small and scattered is a prominent problem in my country's seed industry enterprises at present." Li Guoxiang's research in many places found that many companies are aware of the importance of breeding, but it is true that not every company has the corresponding R&D strength.
As the backbone, formation enterprises should respond to the needs of standard industries, identify development orientation, optimize development layout, and increase R&D investment, so as to form a gradient and organic system as a whole, and jointly strengthen China's seed industry.
Continuously improve the innovation ability of enterprises
What kind of support can the national seed industry formation enterprises get?
—— Give full play to the leading role of enterprises in integrating and gathering resources from all parties, and continue to improve the level of innovation capabilities of enterprises.
For example, the "Notice" clarifies that it supports scientific research units to connect with formation enterprises, carry out long-term strategic cooperation in science and technology, resources, technology, and talents, share national scientific research facilities and platforms, and jointly build research and development platforms or industry-university-research innovation consortia.
Encourage financial institutions to connect with formation enterprises, launch more financial insurance products suitable for the characteristics of the seed industry, innovate financing guarantee methods, and form long-term stable support.
"Breeding is a high-risk, high-investment, long-term business." Li Guoxiang said that such support policies can help companies continue to focus on research and development and contribute to the development of the seed industry.
——Take the creation of support policies as an important means for enterprises to support excellence.
The "Notice" proposes to support formation enterprises to participate in the protection, identification, development and utilization of germplasm resources, and to speed up the exchange and sharing of excellent germplasm resources.
Support formation enterprises to take the lead in undertaking tasks such as national breeding and innovation research, and strengthen the demonstration, demonstration and promotion of new varieties.
Support formation enterprises to implement modern seed industry improvement projects, and improve the level of basic capabilities and conditions.
"For many years, my country has supported the development of seed industry enterprises, which is also the only way for the revitalization of the seed industry." Experts believe that the policy introduced this time will further stimulate the vitality of enterprises, continuously improve their innovation capabilities, and promote the development of the seed industry.
At the same time, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has also made it clear that the dynamic management of formation enterprises will be strengthened, and enterprises that meet the selection conditions will be included in the formation on a regular basis. Enterprises that do not meet the selection conditions or have problems such as violations of laws and regulations will be disqualified once verified.
Li Jie