Make up for the shortcomings in the development of modern facility agriculture

Agricultural technical facilities are the symbol of agricultural productivity, and facility agriculture represents the level and direction of modern agricultural production. Not long ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments jointly issued the "National Modern Facility Agriculture Construction Plan (2023-2030)" to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of China's facility agriculture and make key deployments for the construction of modern facility agriculture.

Corresponding to conventional agriculture, facility agriculture is a set of modern agricultural technical equipment system and production mode. It uses modern agricultural engineering technology and management methods to carry out efficient agricultural production, including facility planting, breeding, and public service facilities. Among them, the facility planting industry includes various greenhouses, plant factories and greenhouses, etc., the facility animal husbandry includes intensive factory facilities livestock and poultry farms, etc., the facility fishery includes standardized ponds, far-reaching Marine aquaculture fisheries, coastal fishing ports, etc., and the public service facilities include seedling breeding, cold storage and preservation, cold chain logistics and storage and drying.

Facility agriculture can effectively improve the utilization rate of land, meet the diversified needs of food, and is an effective way to ensure the supply of various kinds of food such as meat, vegetables, fruits, eggs and aquatic products. The basic national conditions of our country with large population and little land decide that we must vigorously develop facility agriculture, increase agricultural products varieties, and improve food structure. Facility agriculture can also effectively increase farmers' income. Its diverse and efficient characteristics determine that producers and operators can often obtain multiple, high value-added income, which is a feasible way to increase farmers' income. In many areas with developed facility agriculture, the number of farmers engaged in greenhouses and vegetables has gradually increased, and many entrepreneurs and college students have begun to return to their hometowns to engage in facility farming operations, highlighting the attraction of facility agriculture to talents.

China's facility agriculture has become an important source of supply of all kinds of agricultural products for urban and rural residents. However, generally speaking, there are still many problems in the development of facilities agriculture in China. First, the total quantity is insufficient, facilities are backward, and development is uneven; Second, the green transformation is not easy, the facility planting varieties are single, the amount of fertilizer and pesticide is more; The third is the extensive production mode, the degree of intensification is not high, the main body of management is too scattered and the use of traditional facilities, which reduces the land utilization rate and output efficiency; Fourth, the equipment is simple and backward, the level of intelligence is not high, the standard of facilities is low and the supporting research and development ability is lagging. Therefore, it is necessary to come up with targeted countermeasures to crack.

We will intensify scientific and technological innovation to lead the comprehensive and balanced development of facility agriculture. We should firmly rely on scientific and technological innovation, make breakthroughs in key technological fields such as technology integration, synthetic innovation, and the use of new materials, and promote the upgrading of scientific and technological equipment for facility agriculture. In view of the low level of greenhouse intelligence in China, the single variety of grain drying equipment, the weak research and development strength of green equipment, and the low efficiency of three-dimensional farming, we will mobilize the enthusiasm of many parties, carry out joint research, special research, precise efforts, and timely transformation of scientific research results, and explore new paths such as the integration of scientific research, production and operation. Leading the modernization transformation of facility agriculture with scientific and technological innovation.

We will fully tap the wisdom of the people and consolidate the mass foundation for the development and progress of facility agriculture. Fundamentally speaking, agriculture is an industry that uses various facilities, including tools, to continuously improve efficiency, and every progress in agriculture is inseparable from the continuous improvement of agricultural facilities. The so-called facility agriculture is the reflection of the level of agricultural productivity and the wisdom of farmers in a certain period. Even today, many agricultural technology applications rely on farmers' production practices. The construction of modern facility agriculture needs the inspiration and support of folk wisdom, and the mechanism of scientific and technological innovation and discovery of folk agriculture should be gradually established.

Increase policy support to train high-quality facility agriculture employees. The rise of modern facility agriculture has created modern farmers who are both decent and profitable, driven many farmers to find employment nearby, and changed the structure and image of traditional farmers. However, on the whole, the number of this group is still relatively limited, and there is still a long distance from the requirements of high-quality development. We should increase policy support, adopt fiscal, tax, financial and other preferential support, cultivate a large number of facilities agricultural production and operation subjects to meet the requirements of building an agricultural power, constantly increase farmers' income, and lay a strong talent and human resources foundation for building an agricultural power.