Stabilize the "Chinese rice bowl" and build a solid "big country granary" (on-site comment·Let's think together and work together②·New Era, New Journey, New Great Achievement)
Good varieties and fertile land, coupled with good agricultural machinery and good agronomy, will promote the continuous improvement of comprehensive grain production capacity, ensure stable and increased grain production, and stabilize the basic agricultural market
By implementing various policies to benefit farmers, further strengthening the construction of grain production capacity, storage capacity, and circulation capacity, and promoting the high-quality development of the grain industry, we will surely lay a solid foundation for food security
During the winter slack season, Xu Congxiang, a large grain grower in Zhanghuai Village, Jiuxian Town, Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, is not idle.
Early in the morning, he came to the National Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation and Integration Demonstration Base in the village to give explanations and demonstrations to more than 30 representatives of grain growers.
"Strong seedlings overwinter with seven leaves, ten wheat roots and four tillers" "The night freezes and the day turns cold, it's a good time for winter irrigation" "Deep plowing and raking enough moisture, the seedlings are even and strong"...Xu Congxiang concluded The experience is vivid, easy to understand and easy to remember, and the grain growers listen to it with gusto.
Li Jingmin, an employee at the wheat bean seeding farm 14 kilometers away, is busy buying wheat.
When the reporter arrived, he had just completed the random inspection of a truckload of 20,000 jin of wheat.
"Old He, this wheat is good, with a moisture content of 11.6%, and a bulk density of 799.62 grams per liter. According to national standards, this is first-class wheat, suitable for making Taihe Banmian special flour." Li Jingmin said professionally, and He Jian, a farmer from Guanji Town, beside him Jay smiled in satisfaction.
Lao He gave Li Jingmin wheat for ten years, and he feels that growing grain has become more and more prosperous in recent years, "There are subsidies for farming, the price of wheat is rising, and the processing factory is still paying 5 cents to 10 cents per catty higher than the market price. The price can be collected at a reasonable price, and farmers will not suffer losses in growing grain and earn money."
The people are the foundation of the country, and the valley is the life of the people.
The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "to consolidate the foundation of food security in all aspects" and "to ensure that the rice bowl of the Chinese people is firmly in their own hands."
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his investigation in Anhui that "optimize technical measures, implement support policies, protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, and focus on improving grain production efficiency."
As a large agricultural province, Anhui accounts for 4.3% of the country's arable land, produces 6% of the country's grain, and transfers about 20 billion catties of grain every year.
A large number of new-type farmers like Li Jingmin and Xu Congxiang have contributed to stabilizing the "Chinese rice bowl".
The foundation of food security is the safety of food production capacity, and the key to strengthening agriculture with technology and machinery is the key.
In Guomiao Town, Taihe County, the professional planting cooperative that Hanbang is in charge of, "can't fit in a room" of farming machines.
After harvesting 1300 mu of wheat next year, he plans to plant at least 600 mu of soybeans and 400 mu of corn.
In recent years, Anhui has not relaxed its focus on food production, accelerated the transformation of agricultural development methods, and introduced the "Action Plan for Strengthening Agriculture with Science and Technology, Improving Agriculture and Promoting Farmers' Income Increase (2022-2025)".
Today, the ratio of high-standard farmland to cultivated land in Anhui is 19 percentage points higher than the national average, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of major food crops is 10 percentage points higher than the national average.
Good varieties and good fields, coupled with good agricultural machinery and good agronomy, will promote the continuous improvement of the comprehensive grain production capacity, and the stable and increased grain production will be guaranteed, and the basic agricultural market will be more stable.
Whether farmers are willing to grow grain and how much grain they are willing to grow depends on how much income they can bring from growing grain.
In Jiepai Village, Zhaoji Township, Taihe County, villager Wang Shiyong tried to contract 60 mu of land in 2020. Thanks to the driving and management skills he learned from the agricultural machinery professional cooperative, he has achieved good harvests for two consecutive years. Expanded to 200 acres.
At present, there are more than 2,000 grain-growing households in Taihe County owning or contracting more than 50 mu of land, and more than 410 large grain-growing households with more than 300 mu of land.
Large grain growers give full play to the advantages of large-scale operations, explore the implementation of order-based, share-based, trusteeship and other interest-linking mechanisms, and drive farmers to work together and earn together. This not only solves the problems of "who will farm the land" and "how to farm the land", but also Greatly improved the efficiency of agricultural production.
In the land of northern Anhui, the winter wheat has germinated and turned green, containing great vitality and infinite hope.
By implementing various policies to benefit farmers, further strengthening the construction of grain production capacity, storage capacity, and circulation capacity, and promoting the high-quality development of the grain industry, we will surely lay a solid foundation for food security and make the "Chinese rice bowl" more stable , Let the foundation of the "big country granary" be stronger.
(The author is the editor of the commentary department of this newspaper)
Lu Xiaoxun
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