Innovation and sustainability are the key to agricultural supply-side reform

[ China Agricultural Machinery Industry News ] "The key to the structural reform of the agricultural supply side should be to make a fuss about innovation and sustainability." On the afternoon of March 18, the China Development High-level Organized by the Development Research Center of the State Council and hosted by the China Development Research Foundation At the group meeting of the 2017 Annual Economic Summit “Agricultural Supply Side Structural Reform”, the participating experts expressed the above views. Fan Shenggen, Director of the International Food Policy Research Institute, presided over this group meeting.

Han Jun, deputy director of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group Office and deputy director of the Central Rural Work Leading Group Office, believes that the strategy and thinking of agricultural and rural development is fundamentally to deepen the reform of agriculture and rural areas, and the key is to rationalize the relationship between the government and the market. To achieve the above objectives, the strategy and thinking of agricultural and rural development must achieve two important changes. First, the development strategy and ideas of agricultural and rural areas must be driven by excessive dependence on resource consumption to pursue green, ecological and sustainable transformation. Mainly to meet the "quantity" needs to shift to pay more attention to the "quality" needs.

In further promoting the reform of agricultural and rural marketization, Han Jun said that China should continue to deepen the reform of the price formation mechanism and the storage system of rice and wheat in accordance with the idea of ​​“dividing varieties and gradual reforms”. The basic direction is to minimize Direct intervention in market prices while safeguarding the interests of farmers.

In his speech, Han Jun particularly emphasized the need to pay more attention to the sustainable development of agriculture. He said that it is necessary to increase the supply of green agricultural products in a more prominent position, reduce the environmental load, promote agricultural clean production, effectively reduce the excessive application of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and effectively withdraw the marginal production capacity exceeding the environmental carrying capacity. In addition, the prospects for China's agricultural foreign trade and cooperation are very broad. We must make good use of both domestic and international markets and resources to create a good international trade environment for agricultural products.

Qu Dongyu, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture, believes that at present, the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture faces three major problems: imbalance in supply and demand structure, pressure on resources and environment, and weak growth in farmers' income. To promote the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture, its important grasp is the "five districts, one park and four platforms." “Five Zones” is a national modern agricultural demonstration zone, a grain production functional zone, an important agricultural product production protection zone, a characteristic agricultural product advantage zone, and a sustainable agricultural development demonstration zone; “One Park” is a modern agricultural industrial park; “four platforms” is Basic data platform for agricultural and veterinary drugs, traceability platform for agricultural products quality and safety, and information platform for key agricultural products market. “In short, we need to pay more attention to the power of the market to ensure the sale of products.”

Qu Dongyu said that promoting the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture will have a major and far-reaching impact on the marketization, standardization, branding, informationization and internationalization of agriculture. In addition, promoting the structural reform of the supply side of agriculture will bring the following three major opportunities: First, the opportunity of agricultural trade, and the large trade pattern of superior agricultural products will accelerate. On the one hand, the import of some resource-based agricultural products will show an increasing trend. On the other hand, agricultural products with Chinese characteristics will be placed more on the table of the people of the world. The second is the opportunity for technical cooperation. In this regard, it is necessary to introduce a large number of foreign advanced technology equipment and management experience. The third is the opportunity of investment interaction. Foreign investors are welcome to participate in domestic investment construction. At the same time, increase foreign investment cooperation.

"Our vision is to make agriculture an industry with a head start, to make the peasants an enviable career, and to build the countryside into a beautiful village with both modern civilization and pastoral scenery." Qu Dongyu said.

Monsanto’s chairman and executive officer, Hugh Grant, shared his views on agricultural development and innovation. He said that he hopes that agriculture will use technological innovation to increase output and produce higher quality products. At the same time, through technological innovation, less use of fertilizers and pesticides to reduce damage to the soil. “The future of agriculture is promising. Researchers around the world can work together towards agricultural innovation, and make the quality of crops higher, greener and more nutritious through technological innovation.”

Yu Xubo, president of China Agriculture Leading COFCO Group, believes that “the structural imbalance of agricultural industry”, “China's agricultural competitiveness and developed country gap” and “quality and safety of agricultural and agricultural product products” are the three major problems that China's agriculture needs to solve urgently. In terms of the structural imbalance of the agricultural industry, Yu Xubo pointed out that at present, the domestic agricultural products are not well connected from the production to the consumption industry chain, and there are staged surpluses in individual varieties. There are also structural contradictions between varieties, which cannot satisfy the consumption structure. The need for an upgrade. He believes that the agricultural price support policy replaces the spontaneous regulation of the market, which leads to the mismatch of resources in all aspects of the value chain is one of the reasons behind this phenomenon.

“Today, food safety issues have reached an urgent stage of resolution. Therefore, companies are more responsible for the main responsibility in the market and truly push the market into a healthy and healthy development.”

In terms of agricultural market reform, Yu Xubo suggested that, on the one hand, it is necessary to further accelerate the reform of agricultural marketization and timely promote the reform experience on soybeans, cotton and corn to other agricultural products. On the other hand, it is necessary to create a good mechanism for the market, rationalize the relationship between the upstream and the downstream, and further rationally distribute the interests of all links in the industrial chain.

Bunge executive officer Thorn Schroeder said that China's agricultural supply-side reform should solve the following problems: First, reform the agricultural product pricing mechanism, second, the land system reform, and third, the agricultural industry should further foreign investment. Open, four must operate well in global trade and markets. Thorn Schroeder believes that opportunities and challenges coexist. Agriculture has many technological advances and opportunities for upstream and downstream value-added. It is itself a large and important industry. He is looking forward to further development with relevant domestic enterprises in economic globalization. Cooperation.

In the presiding, Fan Shenggen said that the shoulders of agriculture are both responsible for climate change, but also responsible for providing safe and nutritious food, and creating enough employment opportunities to accommodate millions of people. In short, agriculture requires less investment and more output. To achieve this vision, we must rely on innovation, technology, and system to ensure that the market plays its role.