In 2019, the Central Rural Work Conference, the No.1 Document of the Central Committee and the spirit of the National "Two Sessions" will be implemented, and the structural reform of the agricultural supply side will be further promoted around the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. The state will continue to increase investment in supporting agriculture, strengthen overall planning and integration of projects, and accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas. In order to facilitate the broad masses of farmers and all sectors of society to understand the national policy of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers and give play to the role of policy guidance, the key agricultural support policies implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance in 2019 are hereby released as follows.
I. Development and circulation of agricultural production
1. Cultivated land fertility protection subsidies. In principle, the subsidy object is farmers who have the right to contract cultivated land. Subsidy funds are directly paid to households through the form of "one card (discount)". All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) continue to determine the subsidy object, subsidy method and subsidy standard in accordance with the requirements of the Notice of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture on Comprehensively Pushing Forward the Reform of "Three Subsidies" in Agriculture (Cai Nong [2016] No.26) and in combination with local conditions, so as to maintain the continuity and stability of policies and ensure the direct benefit of farmers. Encourage all localities to innovate ways and means, take green ecology as the guide, explore the mechanism of linking subsidy distribution with the implementation of farmland protection responsibility, and guide farmers to consciously improve farmland fertility.
2. Agricultural machinery purchase subsidies. Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) shall select and determine the items of subsidized machines and tools in the province within the category of subsidized machines and tools purchased by the central government, and the machines and tools within the scope of subsidies shall be supplemented, giving priority to ensuring the subsidies for machines and tools needed for the production of major agricultural products such as grain and supporting the green development of agriculture, and increasing the items of machines and tools for the resource utilization of livestock manure. Treat the purchase of agricultural machinery products at home and abroad equally. The amount of subsidy is calculated according to the average market sales price of the same product in the previous year, and the calculation ratio is not more than 30% in principle.
3. Advantages and characteristics lead the development of industries. Focusing on the leading industries with regional advantages and characteristics, we will focus on developing a number of small but sophisticated characteristic industrial clusters, and demonstrate and guide the development of one village, one product, one town, one specialty and one county. Select 200 geographical indication agricultural products with distinctive geographical characteristics, development potential and high market recognition to carry out protection and promotion. We will implement green recycling, high-quality and high-efficiency agricultural promotion projects, and form a number of agricultural industrial clusters based on the industrial chain of production, processing, circulation and sales of green and high-quality agricultural products, integrating scientific and technological innovation, leisure and sightseeing, and planting and breeding. The relevant provinces that undertake the task will make overall arrangements to support them from the budget issued by the central government.
4. National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park. Based on advantageous and characteristic industries, we will build a modern agricultural industrial cluster with large-scale planting and breeding bases as the support, leading industrialized enterprises as the driving force, modern production factors as the gathering, and "production+processing+technology". In 2019, we will continue to create a number of national modern agricultural industrial parks, select a number of national modern agricultural industrial parks, and strive to improve the infrastructure conditions of industrial parks and enhance public service capabilities. The provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) are responsible for the creation work, and the central government will arrange part of the subsidy funds that meet the conditions for creation, and then arrange part of the bonus funds according to the situation after being recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.
5. Demonstration of agricultural industry strengthening the town. Take the villages and towns with active local economy and obvious rural industrial characteristics as the carrier, take industrial integration and development as the path, cultivate local economy and rural industries, standardize and expand the main body of production and operation, innovate the mechanism of farmers’ interest connection and sharing, and build a number of strong agricultural towns with prosperous industries, economic prosperity, green beauty and livable industries. The central government supports it by arranging bonus funds.
6. Information enters villages and households to promote demonstrations throughout the province. In 2019, seven provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) including Tianjin, Hebei, Fujian, Shandong, Hunan, Guangxi and Yunnan were supported to carry out demonstrations. Accelerate the construction and operation of Yi Nong Information Society, and build and repair the "information superhighway" covering rural areas, based on agriculture and serving farmers as soon as possible. Information into the village to take market-oriented construction and operation, the central government to give a one-time award.
7. Dairy industry revitalization action. Focus on supporting the development of high-quality forage planting, family pastures and dairy cooperatives that restrict the development of dairy industry. Accelerate the development of grass and animal husbandry, actively promote grain to feed, vigorously develop the production of high-quality forage materials such as alfalfa, silage corn and oatmeal, and promote the increase of fresh milk output and quality improvement. Incorporate dairy farmers’ development of family farms and dairy cooperatives into the cultivation project of new business entities for priority support and support the construction of high-quality milk source bases. The relevant provinces that undertake the task will make overall arrangements to support them from the budget issued by the central government.
8. Promotion of improved livestock breeds. In eight major grassland and pastoral provinces, such as Inner Mongolia and Sichuan, subsidies will be given to beef cattle farms (communities and households) that use improved semen to carry out artificial insemination in the project area, as well as farmers who can breed ewes and yaks and cows. Encourage and support the popularization and application of excellent breeding pigs and semen, and accelerate the improvement of pig varieties. In 10 provinces where bee owners produce bees, such as Heilongjiang and Jiangsu, we will implement the action of improving the quality of bee industry and support the construction of high-efficiency and high-quality bee industry development demonstration zones. The relevant provinces that undertake the task will make overall arrangements to support them from the budget issued by the central government.
9. Green, high-quality and efficient actions for key crops. Taking key counties as units, we will highlight the three major grains of rice, wheat and corn and oil crops such as soybeans, rape and peanuts, integrate and promote the "all-link" green, high-quality and efficient technology model, explore the construction of "all-process" socialized service system and "all-industrial chain" production model, and promote the production level of "county-wide" by radiation to increase the supply of green and high-quality agricultural products. The relevant provinces that undertake the task will make overall arrangements to support them from the budget issued by the central government.
10. Socialization service of agricultural production. Support rural collective economic organizations, specialized agricultural service organizations, service-oriented farmers’ cooperatives, supply and marketing cooperatives and other entities that have certain capabilities and can provide effective and stable services, and provide agricultural productive services such as agricultural technology promotion, land custody, farming and planting, unified prevention and control, drying and storage for farmers engaged in the production of important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil and sugar. Appropriate financial subsidies will be given to reduce the service prices of farmers.
11. Agricultural machinery subsoiling. Support suitable areas to carry out subsoiling and soil preparation of agricultural machinery. The national working area is more than 140 million mu, and the working depth is generally required to reach or exceed 25 cm, breaking the bottom of the plow. The relevant provinces that undertake the task will make overall arrangements to support them from the budget issued by the central government. According to the actual needs of agricultural production, the four northeastern provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region can carry out subsidies for deep ploughing (deep ploughing) of agricultural machinery in suitable areas.
12 farmland rotation fallow system pilot. In 2019, the central government supported the pilot area of rotation fallow for 30 million mu. Among them, the pilot project of crop rotation is 25 million mu, which is mainly implemented in the soybean, peanut and rape producing areas in the cold northeast region, the farming-pastoral ecotone in the north, the Huang-Huai-Hai region and the Yangtze River basin; The pilot project of fallow is 5 million mu, which is mainly implemented in groundwater overexploitation area, heavy metal pollution area, rocky desertification area in southwest China and serious ecological degradation area in northwest China.
13. Awards for major grain-producing counties. Rewards will be given to regular grain-producing counties, super-grain-producing counties, oil-producing counties, commodity grain-producing counties, seed-producing counties and provinces where the "Quality Grain Project" is implemented. As a general transfer payment, the incentive funds for conventional grain-producing counties are arranged by the people’s government at the county level as a whole; Other incentive funds are used to support the development of grain and oil industry in accordance with relevant regulations.
14 pigs (cattle and sheep) out of the county awards. Including pigs transferred out of big counties, cattle and sheep transferred out of big counties and provincial-level overall incentive funds. The county-level people’s government will make overall arrangements for the pig (cattle and sheep) production and circulation and industrial development in this county, and the provincial-level people’s government will make overall arrangements for the pig (cattle and sheep) production and circulation and industrial development in this province (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government).
15. Subsidies for corn, soybeans and rice producers. Subsidies for corn and soybean producers were implemented in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. The central government will allocate subsidies for corn and soybean producers to provinces and regions, and local governments will formulate specific measures for the implementation of subsidies, clarify subsidy standards, subsidy targets, subsidy basis, etc., and be responsible for paying subsidy funds to corn and soybean producers. In order to support the deepening of the reform of rice storage system and price formation mechanism and ensure the basic stability of farmers’ income from grain production, the state continues to give appropriate subsidies to the major rice-producing provinces.
Second, the protection and utilization of agricultural resources
16 grassland ecological protection subsidies and awards. In Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and other eight provinces (autonomous regions) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, subsidies for grazing prohibition and rewards for balancing grass and livestock were implemented; In Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Heilongjiang Provincial Land Reclamation Bureau, the "package" policy and performance evaluation awards will be implemented. The supplementary award funds can be used for grassland ecological protection construction in pastoral and semi-pastoral counties of the country as a whole, and the good practices of the first round of policies can also be continued.
17. Fishery proliferation and release. Carry out fishery proliferation and release in key water areas such as river basins, rivers and seas with serious resource degradation, promote the recovery or increase of fishery population, improve and optimize the fishery population structure in water areas, and realize the sustainable development of fishery.
18 fishery development and ship scrapping, dismantling and updating subsidies. In accordance with the requirements of balanced and coordinated development of marine fishing intensity and resource regeneration capacity, we will support fishermen to reduce ships and switch to production and build artificial reefs to promote the restoration of fishery ecological environment. In order to adapt to the new situation of modernization and specialization of fishery development, under the premise of strictly controlling the "double control" index of the number and power of marine fishing boats and not increasing the fishing intensity, there are plans to upgrade and transform standardized fishing boats with good selectivity, high efficiency, energy saving, safety and environmental protection. At the same time, support the promotion of deep-water cages, navigation AIDS in fishing ports and other public infrastructure to improve the basic conditions for fishery development.
19. Compensation for prohibited fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin. The central government adopts a combination of one-time subsidies and transitional subsidies to support the ban on fishing in key waters of the Yangtze River basin, and promote the restoration of aquatic biological resources and the ecological environment of waters. Among them, the one-time subsidy is used by the local authorities to recover fishermen’s fishing rights and scrap special production equipment, and is directly distributed to eligible fishermen who have retired. Transitional subsidies are used by all localities as a whole for the work directly related to the ban on arrest, such as propaganda and mobilization, early withdrawal of rewards, strengthening law enforcement management, and emergency response to emergencies.
20. Action of replacing chemical fertilizer with organic fertilizer for fruit, vegetable and tea. Select key counties, support farmers and new agricultural operators to use the organic fertilizer generated by the resource utilization of livestock manure, focus on popularizing the technical modes such as returning compost to the field, applying commercial organic fertilizer, returning biogas residue and biogas slurry to the field, and covering with natural grass, and explore a number of production and operation modes such as "fruit biogas livestock", "vegetable biogas livestock" and "tea biogas livestock" to promote the quality improvement and resource recycling of fruits, vegetables and tea.
21. Pilot project of comprehensive utilization of crop straw. Promote the whole county nationwide, adhere to agricultural priority and diversified utilization, cultivate a number of industrialized utilization subjects, and build a number of model counties with full utilization. Stimulate the vitality of market players in all aspects of straw returning, leaving the field, processing and utilization, and explore the technical route, model and mechanism of comprehensive utilization of straw that can be popularized and sustainable.
22. Resource treatment of livestock manure. Support large animal husbandry counties to carry out the resource utilization of livestock manure, and realize the full coverage of the whole county governance for the resource utilization of livestock manure in large animal husbandry counties. In accordance with the principle of government support, enterprise as the main body and market-oriented operation, taking local and nearby use of rural energy and agricultural organic fertilizer as the main utilization mode, new (expanded) treatment facilities for livestock manure collection and utilization, as well as regional centralized manure treatment centers and large-scale biogas projects will be built, so that all large-scale farms can realize manure treatment and resource utilization, and an industrial pattern of combining agriculture with animal husbandry and recycling development will be formed.
23. Plastic film recycling. Support 100 counties in Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Xinjiang to promote the recycling of waste plastic films, and encourage other regions to carry out independent exploration. Support the establishment of a sound recycling and processing system for waste plastic films, establish recycling mechanisms in various ways, such as handing in business entities, organizing recycling by specialized organizations, recycling by processing enterprises, and exchanging old ones for new ones, and explore the extended responsibility system for plastic film producers who produce and recycle.
24. Comprehensive management of groundwater overexploitation. Taking Heilonggang River Basin in Hebei Province as the focus, we will carry out the adjustment of planting structure with fallow as the focus, popularize agronomic water-saving measures such as water and fertilizer integration, rainwater harvesting on greenhouse surface, moisture measurement irrigation, drought-resistant and water-saving varieties, and establish a semi-fallow system for dry farming and rain-fed planting.
25. Comprehensive management of cultivated land polluted by heavy metals. Focusing on Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan area in Hunan Province, strengthen the monitoring of heavy metals in producing areas and products, popularize VIP (variety substitution, irrigation water source purification, pH value adjustment) and other technical models for the safe utilization of polluted farmland, and explore replicable and scalable models for the safe utilization of polluted farmland. Carry out the adjustment of planting structure and implement the pilot project of fallow of cultivated land.
Third, farmland construction
26. Construction of high-standard farmland. In 2019, in accordance with the five unified requirements of "unified planning and layout, unified construction standards, unified organization and implementation, unified acceptance and assessment, and unified warehousing", more than 80 million mu of high-standard farmland will be built nationwide, and it will be tilted to grain production functional areas and important agricultural products production protection areas. In terms of construction content, in accordance with the General Rules for the Construction of High-standard Farmland, focusing on land leveling, soil improvement, farmland water conservancy, mechanized roads and farmland power transmission and distribution equipment, we will promote the "mechanized" transformation of cultivated land, strengthen the construction of agricultural infrastructure, improve the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, and implement the strategy of "storing grain on the ground and storing grain in technology".
27. Protection and utilization of black land in Northeast China. It will be implemented in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia, and a centralized contiguous demonstration zone will be established to showcase a number of black land protection and utilization models. Support the development of technical and engineering measures such as controlling black soil loss, increasing soil organic matter content, conserving water and fertilizer, raising black soil, and monitoring and evaluating cultivated land quality. Encourage new agricultural business entities and social service organizations to undertake implementation tasks.
Fourth, agricultural science and technology personnel support
28. Capacity-building of farmers’ cooperatives and family farms. Support the high-quality development of demonstration cooperatives and farmers’ cooperative unions at or above the county level, and cultivate a large number of family farms with moderate scale. Support farmers’ cooperatives and family farms to build primary processing facilities such as cleaning, packaging, cold storage and drying, and carry out "three products and one standard" and brand building to improve product quality and safety and market competitiveness.
29. Agricultural credit guarantee service. Focus on serving family farms, farmers’ cooperatives, agricultural socialized service organizations, small and micro agricultural enterprises and other agricultural moderate-scale business entities. Give full play to the role of the national agricultural credit guarantee system, focusing on agricultural and forestry advantageous industries such as grain production, animal husbandry and aquaculture, vegetable and fruit tea, agricultural socialized services such as agricultural materials, agricultural machinery and agricultural technology, farmland infrastructure, and new rural formats such as the integration and development of rural primary and secondary industries, precision poverty alleviation projects, family leisure agriculture and sightseeing agriculture. Support all localities to adopt ways such as guarantee fee subsidies and business awards to reduce the financing cost of moderate-scale business entities and solve the problem of financing difficulties and expensive financing for agricultural business entities.
30. Cultivation of new professional farmers. Focus on agricultural professional managers, modern young farmers, rural practical talents leaders, the backbone of new agricultural business entities, and the poverty alleviation targets of agricultural industries, and improve their production skills and management level. Support capable farmers’ cooperatives, professional and technical associations, leading agricultural enterprises and other subjects to undertake training work.
31. Reform and construction of grass-roots agricultural technology extension system. Support agricultural counties with high willingness to implement and good tasks to undertake the task of system reform and construction, strengthen the construction of rural service system for agriculture, improve the service ability and level of grassroots agricultural technicians, and popularize and apply a number of major technical models that meet the requirements of high quality, safety, cost saving and efficiency improvement and green development. In poverty-stricken areas, we will fully implement the special appointment plan for agricultural extension services, and recruit a group of special agricultural technicians from local agricultural experts, experts in planting and breeding, technical backbones of new agricultural business entities, and front-line service personnel of scientific research and teaching units to provide strong support for industrial poverty alleviation.
V. Agricultural disaster prevention and reduction
32. Agricultural production for disaster relief. The central government gives appropriate subsidies to the prevention and control of major agricultural natural disasters and biological disasters, emergency relief and post-disaster recovery. The scope of support includes subsidies for materials needed for the prevention and control of major natural disasters and biological disasters in agriculture, subsidies for materials needed for measures to restore agricultural production, harmless treatment fees for dead animals after disasters, and subsidies for straw sheds (warehouses), livestock greenhouses and emergency forage materials needed for disaster prevention and livestock protection in pastoral areas.
33. Prevention and control of animal diseases. The central government grants subsidies for compulsory immunization, compulsory culling and harmless treatment of animal diseases. Compulsory immunization subsidy funds are mainly used to carry out the purchase, storage, injection (feeding) of animal compulsory immunization vaccines (anthelmintics) such as foot-and-mouth disease, highly pathogenic avian influenza, small ruminant plague, brucellosis and echinococcosis, as well as related prevention and control work such as monitoring and evaluation of immune effect and personal protection, and to subsidize the implementation and purchase of animal epidemic prevention services. In the process of preventing, controlling and exterminating animal epidemics, the state shall compensate the owners of animals that have been forcibly culled, and the subsidy funds shall be jointly borne by the central finance and local finance. The state supports the harmless treatment of dead pigs in the breeding process, and all localities should improve the subsidy policy for harmless treatment according to relevant requirements and local conditions, and earnestly do a good job in the harmless treatment of the breeding process.
34 agricultural insurance premium subsidies. On the basis of local finance independently developing and voluntarily assuming a certain proportion of subsidies, the central finance gives premium subsidies to rice, wheat, corn, cotton, potatoes, oil crops, sugar crops, fertile sows, cows, fattening pigs, forests, highland barley, yaks, Tibetan sheep and natural rubber, as well as seed production insurance for rice, wheat and corn, and the proportion of premiums paid by farmers is generally not more than 20%. Continue to carry out and expand the agricultural catastrophe insurance pilot, the level of protection covers "direct materialization cost+land rent", and the protection targets cover moderate-scale business entities and small farmers in the pilot areas; In Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and other six provinces (autonomous regions), four major grain-producing counties were selected to continue to carry out the three major grain crop full cost insurance and income insurance pilot projects, and the level of protection covered "direct materialization cost+land rent+labor cost"; The central government launched a pilot program to reward and supplement local agricultural products insurance with local advantages and characteristics.
VI. Rural Construction
35. The improvement of rural human settlements was promoted as a whole. We will implement the Three-year Action Plan for Rural Human Settlements Renovation, focus on supporting the central and western regions to promote rural human settlements renovation in counties as a unit, promote the tasks of rural domestic garbage, domestic sewage, toilet manure treatment and village appearance improvement, and speed up the completion of the shortcomings in rural human settlements infrastructure construction.
36 advanced county awards for rural human settlements improvement. Implement the spirit of "Three-year Action Plan for Rural Human Settlements Renovation" and "Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Further Strengthening Incentive Support in Areas with Significant Achievements" (Guo Ban Fa [117] No.2018), and evaluate the rural human settlements renovation work in various provinces according to the Implementation Measures for Rural Human Settlements Renovation Incentive Measures, and determine the list of counties to be recommended. When allocating the annual transfer payment funds for comprehensive rural reform, the central government will give appropriate tilt support to the counties that have achieved remarkable results in the improvement of rural human settlements.
37. The "toilet revolution" in rural areas was promoted throughout the village. The central government arranged special award funds to support and guide all localities to take administrative villages as units, make overall planning and design, organize and launch as a whole, simultaneously implement household toilet renovation and public facilities supporting construction, and establish and improve the later management and protection mechanism. In principle, the popularization rate of sanitary toilets in administrative villages should reach more than 85%. The award funds mainly support the construction of facilities such as manure collection, storage, transportation and resource utilization, and the subsequent improvement of management and protection capabilities, taking into account the renovation of household toilets. The standards and methods of award and compensation are determined by local conditions.