Anhui No. 1 Document Focuses on Science and Technology to Promote Agricultural Modernization

It is necessary to increase the intensity of agricultural science and technology innovation to promote the "bridging run" of agricultural modernization. The Anhui Provincial Committee and Provincial Government's recently issued document No. 1 clarifies this development approach and specific practices.

In the "Opinions on Increasing Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation to Accelerate the Advancement of Agricultural Modernization", it is required that all parts of the province in the development of industrialization and urbanization should simultaneously advance agricultural modernization and put agricultural science and technology on a more prominent position in order to increase yields. Direction, with information as the core, implement the “four-good” supporting projects for fertile fields, improved varieties, good methods, and good systems. Accelerating the transformation of agricultural development methods in accordance with the requirements of high-quality, high-yield, and high-efficiency agriculture, and focusing on promoting the industrialization of agricultural operations and the integration of agricultural technologies. In the fields of infrastructure, infrastructure engineering, agricultural production mechanization, socialization of agricultural services, modernization of farmers, and efforts to innovate the institutional mechanisms for agricultural management, and strive to increase the productivity of agricultural labor, land productivity, and resource utilization, and strive to increase the overall agricultural production capacity and risk resistance. With capacity, market competitiveness, and sustainable development capabilities, we have strived to build Anhui Province into an important production, processing, and supply base for high-quality agricultural products in China, and to accelerate the realization of a large agricultural province to a strong agricultural province.

The No. 1 document of Anhui Province clarified the specific objectives of agricultural development. By 2015, it will lay a solid foundation for the basic realization of agricultural modernization in Anhui Province, and will take the lead in realizing the modernization of agriculture. The modern agricultural industry system has been markedly enhanced. The grain production capacity has reached 70 billion jins. Wheat yields have entered the national advanced ranks. The major crops such as rice, corn and cotton have yielded to the national average. The agricultural product processing output value has reached more than 700 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of peasants. Reached 10,600 yuan.