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At present, it is summer harvest season, and agricultural machinery and equipment operations can be seen in many places, with "technology farming maps" spreading out in the fields.
The key to agricultural modernization lies in the modernization of agricultural technology. Currently, technology, as a key driving force for promoting agricultural development, has played an important role in ensuring national food security, promoting increased income for farmers, and leading industrial development. We must base ourselves on China's national conditions, follow the laws of agricultural science and technology, accelerate the pace of innovation, strive to seize the high ground of global agricultural science and technology competition, firmly grasp the initiative of China's agricultural science and technology development, and provide solid scientific and technological support for China's transition from an agricultural power to an agricultural powerhouse.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has achieved a large number of landmark scientific and technological achievements by vigorously promoting agricultural scientific and technological innovation and promoting the application of achievements. The efficiency of the agricultural scientific and technological innovation system has steadily improved. Overall, the overall level of agricultural technology innovation in China has entered the forefront of the world, taking a solid step towards self-reliance and self-improvement in agricultural technology. In 2022, the contribution rate of national agricultural scientific and technological progress reached 62.4%, the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation and harvesting reached 73%, and the grain yield remained stable at over 1.3 trillion kilograms for 8 consecutive years.
However, compared with the world's advanced level, there is still a certain gap in the contribution rate of China's agricultural scientific and technological progress. The shortcomings and weaknesses that constrain China's agricultural productivity still exist, mainly reflected in the weak ability to cultivate high-quality varieties, low level of agricultural machinery intelligence, insufficient capital investment, and scattered scientific and technological innovation resources. In this regard, we need to adhere to a problem oriented and goal oriented approach, take multiple measures to layout and implement policies, and firmly root technology in the soil.
Firstly, implement the overall national security concept and ensure the security of the agricultural industry. The construction of an agricultural powerhouse cannot be separated from the stability of food supply. Ensuring national food security is an important foundation for achieving economic development, social stability, and national security. We must adhere to the bottom line requirement of "basic self-sufficiency of grains and absolute safety of food rations", make ensuring sufficient supply of grain and important agricultural products the top priority, establish a big food concept, build a diversified food security system, and firmly grasp the initiative to solve food problems. Accelerate the promotion of large-scale production and intensive management, improve comprehensive agricultural productivity, enhance risk resistance, gradually turn all permanent basic farmland into high standard farmland, tap into the potential of agricultural technology to increase production, and innovate means to stabilize food production. Strengthen agricultural safety supervision, improve the quality of agricultural products through technological innovation, and firmly adhere to the bottom line of agricultural product quality and safety.
Secondly, strengthen agricultural technological innovation and consolidate agricultural infrastructure construction. China still lags behind agricultural powerhouses such as Europe and America in basic agricultural fields such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and agricultural machinery, and faces the bottleneck problem of core technologies. However, a new round of agricultural technological revolution characterized by biotechnology and information technology is nurturing significant breakthroughs. We need to focus on agricultural technological innovation, overcome the difficulties of seed source "chips" such as grains, vegetables, and animals, and increase the market share of domestically produced new varieties such as corn, soybeans, white feathered broilers, and beef cattle. Keep a close eye on the forefront of global agricultural technology and steadily promote the industrial application of various biological breeding technologies. Vigorously promote organic fertilizers and green pesticides, reduce agricultural pollution, protect soil fertility and ecological environment. Embrace digital technology, actively develop digital agriculture, improve the utilization rate of intelligent agricultural machinery, build intelligent planting and breeding systems, and strive to achieve "overtaking on bends".
Once again, innovate methods for cultivating agricultural technology talents and strengthen incentive mechanisms. We need to develop a talent training plan for agricultural technology innovation, implement the top agricultural talent project, and leverage the leading role of agricultural technology. Establish a scientific, socialized, market-oriented, and differentiated comprehensive talent evaluation mechanism to achieve the accuracy of talent evaluation. Establish a fair and reasonable reward and punishment mechanism, improve the distribution system for the transformation of scientific research achievements, and provide rewards such as shares and dividends for scientific research achievements converted through the market. Solidly promoting the cultivation of professional farmers and improving the quality of new agricultural management entities can fully mobilize the enthusiasm of vocational colleges, rural adult education schools, e-commerce platforms, science and technology academies, and cultivate a large number of new professional farmers who understand technology and the market.
Finally, increase efforts in agricultural technology research and development to maintain stable resource investment. Agricultural scientific and technological innovation has the characteristics of long cycle, high risk, and slow effectiveness. It is necessary to increase support for basic and public welfare research, and improve the stable support mechanism for basic research in the field of agricultural science and technology. When implementing agricultural science and technology research and development project plans, one should be willing to put in more effort, increase investment, establish long-term goals, provide stable support, tolerate scientific research failures, and encourage scientific and technological innovation thinking.