Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun: It is necessary to ensure the safe and stable supply of important agricultural products such as grain at a high level, promote the increase in agricultural efficiency, and increase farmers' income.

On the morning of March 9th, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun stated during the second round of the "minister's passage" at the Fourth Session of the Fourteenth National People's Congress that the Government Work Report proposed to never relax grain production and to set a target of 1.4 trillion catties of grain production as a major expected goal for this year's economic and social development. The agricultural and rural departments must conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, adhere to the coordinated promotion of output, capacity, production, ecology, and increased production and income, vigorously develop technology agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture, ensure the safe and stable supply of important agricultural products such as grain at a high level, promote agricultural efficiency, and increase farmers' income. Specific measures include: first, ensuring quantity, making the increase in production capacity a top priority, intensifying the implementation of a new round of initiatives to increase grain production capacity by a billion catties, thoroughly implementing the revitalization plan for the seed industry, and implementing the new round of black soil protection engineering. Second, ensuring quality, aiming for green and high-quality direction, cultivating excellent varieties, integrating and promoting green production technology models, improving post-harvest processing levels, strictly managing quality, and improving the adaptability and effectiveness of the agricultural supply system. Third, ensuring diversity, firmly establishing a concept of large agriculture and large food, adhering to the development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries, vigorously developing modern animal husbandry and modern fisheries, promoting facility agriculture according to local conditions, developing agroforestry, strengthening the forest and grass industry, and constructing a diversified food supply system to better meet the diversified, personalized, and differentiated demands for agricultural products from the people.