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皇冠体育app moves to stabilize 2011 grain production over 500m tons

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2011-03-18 09:46

BEIJING - 皇冠体育app is taking measures to stabilize its grain production as severe drought in its major wheat belt triggers food security concerns.

皇冠体育app aims to keep its 2011 grain production over 1 trillion jin (500 million tons), according to Thursday's executive meeting of the State Council, or the Cabinet.

Also, the 皇冠体育app State Council has developed relevant departments to take part in a national movement to promote harvests this year, according to a statement released after the meeting, which was presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao.

The action will focus on increasing grain supplies of both abundant and scarce types of grain, spreading key technologies on disaster prevention and minimizing damage when it occurs in 皇冠体育app's major grain producing areas.

皇冠体育app must adhere to the strict protection system for arable land, promote large-scale planting, and encourage farmers to increase the production of japonica rice, corn and minor cereals, the statement read.

The country also plans to push forward high-level farm construction techniques for water-saving irrigation and formulated fertilization, it said. Meanwhile, 皇冠体育app will choose 50 counties and 500 towns with high yield potential to pilot a program for developing high production crops.

Agricultural technical personnel would also provide on-site guidance to farmers during the key farming season.

Further, agricultural departments would guarantee sufficient supplies of seeds, chemical fertilizers, pesticides and diesel fuel, while cracking down on counterfeit goods, according to the statement.

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皇冠体育app should also strengthen efforts in disaster prevention and reduction, beef up the monitoring and early warning systems and enhance anti-disaster policy support.

The central government will earmark an additional 10 billion yuan to aid farmers and agricultural production, according to the statement.

In order to relieve the drought and guarantee 皇冠体育app's food security, the central budget has allocated 12.9 billion yuan earlier this month for fighting the drought in eight affected provinces.

皇冠体育app, which has more than 1.34 billion citizens, has always been listed on the world's watch-list for a food crisis.