Speaking at the symposium on the Role, opportunities and challenges of "world-oriented China in promoting sustainable development" held at Peking University June 29, Zhihong, the former president of Peking University and dean of Modern Agricultural College, made the above remarks.
This January, Peking University announced the formal establishment of the modern agricultural College, and recruited 76-Year-old academician Zhihong as the first dean.
Zhihong said at the symposium that agriculture is closely related to everyone, but Chinese agriculture is facing structural contradictions. ' We are proud that food production has increased for 12 years and is basically stable at a high level over the years. But there are problems, the national treasury of Food and the country's annual production of the same, a large amount of food in the Treasury, a lot of losses every year, also imports a lot of food every year, imports almost 120 million tons last year, not a small number.
' The high yield but also depends on a large number of imports, ' it shows that our production is not in line with our social needs, on the one hand, structural surplus, on the one hand, structural shortage. Therefore, the central government put forward the sustainable development of agriculture, we must work hard to solve structural contradictions.
' he said. Zhihong cites statistics from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization that the main factor contributing to the increase in the world's grain production is increased per unit area, with 60% to 80% per cent of developed countries being bred from fine breeds.
At the end of China's ' Twelve-Five ', the contribution rate of variety improvement to grain yield reached 45%. But you may not know that we have a good standard for the field, the first is high yield, quality is not necessarily guaranteed, most varieties need to rely on a large number of fertilizers. For breeding, it is important to have high yield, high quality and less fertilizer application.
' Zhihong also stressed that the important point of agricultural production is to be environmentally friendly, sustainable agricultural development must also ensure the sustainable development of the environment.
But the contribution of agriculture to environmental pollution has accounted for almost half of the environmental pollution in China. In April 2015, the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Peach Lin also said at the new state conference that China's agricultural resources and environment suffered from exogenous pollution and endogenous pollution of the double pressure, agricultural sustainable development encountered bottlenecks.
Agriculture has surpassed industry to become China's largest non-point source pollution industry, the overall situation is not optimistic. ' Modern agriculture is more about the economic and sustainable development of agricultural development in the future.
' said Zhihong.
Why should Beijing University build modern agricultural college? Zhihong that, because ' modern agriculture is not only a natural science problem, involving social sciences, even the humanities, so scientists only engaged in natural science, technical research, do not understand the society, the economy is not good, "there are many other disciplines in Peking University, can use the advantages of the subject, research to solve the urgent need Exhibition issues.
(Surging News)
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The promotion of national census of Agricultural Pollution sources will be held in Chongqing Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural areas in Chongqing to convene the national census of Agricultural pollution, to listen to the progress of the provincial work, deployment of the next step to the source of breeding, livestock and poultry sources, aquaculture sources, as well as plastic film, straw investigation work.
The meeting request, the National Agricultural Pollution Source Census Promotion Group should strengthen the work instruction earnestly, constructs the coordinated coordination, the regular dispatch, the Division of Labor is responsible, supervises the inspection the work mechanism, speeds up the census monitoring spot location and the verification, guarantees on time quality and quantity completes the census task. The meeting stressed that agricultural rural sectors should attach great importance to the census of Agricultural pollution sources, further improve the ideological understanding, standing in the overall height, to carry out the task of good work, to organize the strength of the force, the formation of technical forces, focus on, the overall advance, the implementation of funds as soon as possible, strictly in accordance with the ' unified plan, unified standards, unified quality control ' requirements
, standardize all aspects of census work, to ensure the scientific nature of the census, accuracy; to grasp the time node, before the end of the year must complete the sample survey, data warehousing and production discharge coefficient rate, the first draft of the manual; To strengthen technical training, to promote the formation of business fine, hard working style, organization and coordination ability of the Census personnel
From the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities and separately listed rural agricultural sector, the Ministry of Ecological and Environmental pollution, the Second National census Office and related technical support units representing more than 130 people attended the meeting. Pollution contribution rate Nearly half | Academician calls for environmental friendliness in agricultural production
