How to face the reduction of corn acreage in agricultural provinces

How to face the reduction of corn acreage in agricultural provinces

The Ministry of Agriculture recently announced the corn reduction plan during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. By 2020, the corn area will be reduced by more than 50 million mu, and the corn planting area will be reduced by more than 20 million mu this year. As a large province for corn cultivation, Heilongjiang started to reduce the planting area by 10 million mu, and the unique planting pattern of corn is changing. Then, what kind of plant is reduced by 10 million mu? How to ensure that farmers' benefits will only increase?

In the Dawn Town of Shudong City, Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province, Han Xiaoyan, the director of the Sweet Cocoa Crop Planting Cooperative, is directing the seedlings that have been bred in the greenhouse to the Daejeon. Looking at the 2,000-acre vegetable field, Han Xiaoyan is a bit embarrassed. She has planted corn for more than 20 years. She changed her vegetables in a large area for the first time. She was expecting and worried.

Han Xiaoyan: "(Last year) there was no psychological preparation. Before I planted the land, I didn't know the price cut. After July, I knew that I would drop it. When I sold the grain, I knew that it would fall. Basically, I didn’t make any money. I lost a lot last year. Three or four hundred thousand in the outside."

In recent years, the corn planting area in Heilongjiang Province has risen year by year, reaching 110 million mu. Last fall, the price of corn storage was lowered, and the price per ton was reduced by 1 cent per pen. This alone reduced the farmers in the province by nearly 14 billion yuan. It is obvious that Han Xiaoyan, who is not in the right position, has taken the adjustment step this year.

Han Xiaoyan: "Two transformations, one corn, one vegetable, now we are expanding the area to plant some potential vegetables, okra, sticky corn, naked pumpkin, gradually transforming, corn also let it upgrade, organic corn, previously pursued high yield Now, the pursuit of quality is also a transformation."

Li Shirun, deputy inspector of the Agriculture Committee of Heilongjiang Province, admitted that the current domestic corn stocks are in a serious situation, and it is imperative to adjust the planting structure, but it is difficult.

Li Shirun: "Heilongjiang has reached a gateway. Under the new form of supply-side structural reform and the new normal new requirements, farmers have relatively low market capacity. Heilongjiang has formed a relatively stable planting structure and planting pattern in these years. After the mechanization of the species, tube and harvest, the machinery needs to be modified and updated, so the cost is relatively large, especially the seed and harvest links, and our original agricultural machinery is not used."

Yin Cai, deputy director of the Agricultural Bureau of Zhaodong City, said that the planting structure adjustment pain will definitely be there, but it is not a long-term plan for agriculture to eat by the state protection policy.

Yin Cai: "In the past, farmers have become a habit under the support of protection prices and subsidy policies. If they really want to increase their income, they must go through the way of adjusting the structure, but they must go early and go late."

It is indeed difficult for farmers to change their cultivation habits for decades, but the methods are always more difficult. Heilongjiang Province has successfully guided the farmers to follow the market and follow the benefits, and successfully took steps to adjust the planting structure.

Li Shirun: "We want to adjust the direction of "one reduction" and "five changes." "One reduction" is to reduce the corn area, change to "dry change water", the second change we call "rice change beans", the third The change of "rice reform" is to change the economic crops, the fourth change is "rice change miscellaneous", that is, corn is changed to miscellaneous grains and beans. The fifth change, "grain change feed" is the farming and animal husbandry, forming a combination of breeding and breeding. The provincial party committee and the provincial government proposed a good change in the sales of the seeds, and sold well, forced to grow better, so that the structural adjustments were smooth and rapid, and the structure was adjusted, the standards were adjusted, the industry was adjusted, and the benefits were raised. Farmers have income."

At present, Heilongjiang Province has implemented a 10 million mu corn planting reduction plan on the land. With a total planting area of ​​210 million mu, the corn planting area has fallen below 100 million mu. Changes are taking place, and a spring plough that is different from previous years is being carried out in an orderly manner on the black land.

(Original title: The Ministry of Agriculture announced the corn reduction plan during the 13th Five-Year Plan period)