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China targets agricultural supply-side reforms

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2015-12-26 06:58Xinhua Editor: Gu Liping

An annual rural work conference concluded on Friday, agreeing to push forward supply-side reform in agriculture to speed up modernization.

China will ensure abundant and quality farm produce to satisfy market demand, according to the Central Rural Work Conference that mapped out rural work for 2016 and the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020).

Priority should be given to reduction of inventories and production costs and overcoming weaknesses in the sector, according to a statement released after the conference.

China will step up grain processing to cut stock; promote large-scale production, curb overuse of pesticides and fertilizers and introduce social services to slash costs; reinforce rural infrastructure and boost shortly-supplied farm produce to overcome weak links.

"By initiating supply-side reforms, policy makers hit at the crux of modern agricultural development," said Cheng Guoqiang with the Development Research Center of the State Council.

After years of good harvests, China has grown out of a food shortage period, but structural problems remain unsolved, including the contradiction of falling prices and rising costs: some produce is over-supplied and some in extreme shortage.

Total grain output increased 2.4 percent year on year to 621 million tonnes in 2015, the 12th straight year of growth. However, inventories are piling up. It is estimated that China has accumulated billions of tonnes of grain stock. Corn alone has reached 400 million tonnes: a bottleneck and needs reforms on the supply side.

President Xi Jinping said in his instruction that China's agricultural and rural development still faces many challenges, and that greater efforts should be made to support rural development and advance rural reforms.

  

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