In his report on the work of the Government, Premier Li Keqiang called for concerted efforts to fill the "rice bag" and "vegetable basket" so that more than 1.4 billion Chinese people will be fully served.
Last year, the grain sown area in Liaoning province increased for four consecutive years, reaching 53.154 million mu, an increase of 247,000 mu, and the grain output reached 50.77 billion jin, an increase of 8.5 percent. So how does Liaoning do a good job in grain production this year? The reporter interviewed Chen Jian, deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department of Liaoning Province.
"Liaoning will firmly guard the bottom line of ensuring grain security, and the area sown to grain will only increase." Chen jian said that the province's grain sown area should be stable at 53.15 million mu level, while taking multiple measures to expand oil production, soybean will be increased by 100,000 mu, the sown area of 1.658 million mu. The province will sign target responsibility letters with each city, and cities, counties and townships should sign responsibility letters at different levels to ensure that the grain sown area is implemented to farmers and plots.
We will strictly implement the responsibility for protecting cultivated land and vigorously implement projects to improve the quality of cultivated land. We will build 3.9 million hectares of high-standard farmland, and implement high-efficiency water-saving irrigation on 200,000 hectares of farmland. We actively promoted the protection and utilization of black land, carrying out a project to protect 10 million mu of black land in 17 key counties in typical black soil areas, of which 2 million mu of black land protection demonstration areas were built. We will carry out conservation tillage projects covering an area of 10 million hectares, ensure that stalks are in the field before sowing, check and accept crops in strict accordance with standards, prevent fraud, complete construction tasks on time and with good quality, and ensure that grain is stored in the ground.
Grain wants development, seed industry needs first. "We will revitalize the seed industry and improve the production of improved grain crops." Chen jian introduced that Liaoning will carry out an in-depth survey of crop germplasm resources and complete the systematic investigation and rescue collection of crop germplasm resources in 17 counties (cities). Promote the construction of seed production bases and breeding bases for scientific research, select new varieties suitable for planting in different areas with high yield, high quality, resistance to stress and suitable for quick harvest, and publish recommended lists of excellent crop varieties in the province. We will display and demonstrate over 300 superior varieties of crops, and ensure that all superior varieties of major crops are covered.
Science and technology is the primary driver of food security and sustainable agricultural growth. How to give food production the wings of science and technology? "Science and technology should be used to steadily increase grain yield per unit area," Chen said. "Liaoning should build more than 100 long-term and stable agricultural science and technology demonstration bases, select and cultivate more than 8,000 agricultural science and technology demonstration subjects, and select and promote 20 agricultural technologies. The technology model of intercropping and multiple planting was carried out, and the belt compound planting of soybean and corn was carried out. Under the premise of ensuring the basic stability of corn yield, soybean harvest was increased by one season. In the farmland rotation project areas, we will vigorously promote soybean rotation."
The socialized service of agricultural machinery is an important means to promote the organic connection between small farmers and modern agriculture. Chen Jian believes that the socialized service of entrusted land has more vitality than the land circulation. The ownership and management right of entrusted land has not changed, but it is only entrusted to others. Through the socialization of agricultural machinery services to realize the unified planting, unified management, unified collection or promotion, management, collection, which is conducive to small farmers to reduce costs, improve quality, increase benefits. Liaoning will vigorously promote the socialized production trusteeship service based on agricultural machinery, and this year the scale of trusteeship service in liaoning will reach more than 60 million units per mu.
In addition, Chen jian said to mobilize and protect the enthusiasm of farmers to grow grain and the enthusiasm of major grain-producing counties to catch grain, improve the mechanism for farmers to grow grain income security. We will strengthen the grain industry and speed up the development of the whole grain industry chain with the development of the grain and oil industry chain and feed processing industry chain as the driving force. Actively cultivate leading enterprises, promote grain processing to high-quality, green, refined and deepening direction of development.
