Interview: ensure food security and increase farmers' income

Introduction: the head of the State Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office answers the reporter's questions on the application guide for the national agricultural comprehensive development and industrialization project in 2006 Recently, in 2006, the application for the national agricultural comprehensive development and industrialization project was about to be fully launched Liu Shijiang, deputy director of the National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office, gave an exclusive interview to the reporter of China financial news on the project application Reporter (hereinafter referred to as Ji): since the implementation of comprehensive agricultural development, especially in the past two years, what major achievements have been made? Liu Shijiang (hereinafter referred to as Liu): in order to strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure, guarantee the national food security, and promote the increase of farmers' income, the central government has set up special funds for comprehensive agricultural development since 1988 By the end of 2004, a total of 218.65 billion yuan had been invested in the comprehensive development of agriculture, including 65.64 billion yuan from the central government, 54.86 billion yuan from the local government, 25.41 billion yuan from bank loans, 72.74 billion yuan from self raised funds, 440 million mu of medium and low yield fields had been transformed, thousands of national and provincial leading enterprises with strong radiation belt action had been supported and cultivated, and a large number of high-efficiency leading enterprises had been developed and expanded Characteristic planting and breeding bases have made important contributions to improving the basic agricultural production conditions, improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, ensuring the basic balance of national grain supply and demand, and increasing the income of farmers The comprehensive development of agriculture has been praised as "the project of moral and political integrity" and "the project of popular support" by the masses of cadres and people, and has also won the high affirmation of the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council Premier Wen Jiabao once pointed out incisively that "under the condition of socialist market economy, the comprehensive development of agriculture is an effective means for the state to support and protect agricultural development, an important way to consolidate and strengthen the basic position of agriculture, a key measure to improve the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture, and an important driving force to promote the sustainable development of agriculture." Last year and this year, the central government invested 18.91 billion yuan in agricultural comprehensive development, including 11.475 billion yuan in 13 major grain producing areas (1.365 billion yuan in new funds), accounting for more than 60% of the total central financial funds; 53.8789 million mu of medium and low yield fields were transformed nationwide, and more than 560 national and provincial leading agricultural industrialization enterprises with large scale and strong radiation driving role were supported It is estimated that 12.5 billion jin of grain production capacity can be increased, and the per capita net income of the directly benefited farmers can be increased by about 350 yuan, which has made new contributions to improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, promoting grain production and farmers' income Note: what are the provisions of the application scope of industrialized business projects in the application guide this time? Liu: according to the spirit of the document "opinions on several policies and measures for reform and improvement of agricultural comprehensive development" (CAI Fa [2003] No 93), in 2006, the State Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office will continue to arrange some funds to support agricultural industrialization projects The supporting scope of agricultural comprehensive development industrialization operation project includes: economic forest and facility agricultural planting, animal husbandry and aquaculture and other planting and breeding base projects; grain and oil, fruits and vegetables, livestock and poultry and other agricultural products processing projects; storage and preservation, origin wholesale market and other circulation facilities projects The key industries supported by the industrialization project of agricultural comprehensive development include: high-quality rice, special wheat, special corn, high oil soybean, double low rape, cotton, sugar, economic forest, vegetable, tea, flower, sericulture, animal husbandry, freshwater aquaculture and special agricultural products The key supporting objects of the project include: national and provincial leading enterprises of agricultural industrialization (including the leading enterprises approved by the Provincial Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office), and at the same time, the leading enterprises and rural cooperative economic organizations that are growing and rising, can drive the farmers to increase their income significantly, and are small-scale The arrangement of industrialized management projects is generally limited to the comprehensive agricultural development counties All projects that meet the above support scope, key industries and support objects are within the scope of this application Note: in the past, what were the main problems in the declaration of industrial operation projects? Liu: first, the project reserve is insufficient, which is reflected in the imperfect and standardized development planning and project database construction of industrial operation project construction; second, the progress of primary election of provincial project application is unbalanced, some of which have not yet established a strict and standardized expert preliminary examination system; third, there are weak links in the project feasibility study, and some local project feasibility study reports are not standardized 。 Note: is there any regional difference in this application, such as preferential policies for the central and western regions, especially for the western regions? Are there any restrictions on foreign and private enterprises? Liu: the key point of supporting the comprehensive agricultural development is the main grain production area, which is also reflected in supporting the industrialized operation projects In terms of the conditions for the application and approval of industrialized operation projects, all regions are treated equally; for the ownership nature of leading enterprises, according to the requirements of the No.1 document of the central government, as long as a close interest connection mechanism is established with farmers, which can drive farmers to significantly increase their income, they can enjoy the supporting policies of agricultural comprehensive development and industrialized operation projects.