The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas released a news on the 19th that since this year, the operation of the agricultural and rural economy has been generally stable and stable, providing an important support for the continuation of the overall stable and progressive development of the national economy.

In the first half of the year, summer grain harvested again, and the situation of agricultural production was stable. Summer grain production was flat with the highest yield in history in 2017. At present, more than half of the early rice has been harvested, autumn crops are growing normally, the spread rate of noctuid moth in grassland is slowed down, and the basis for a good harvest of grain throughout the year is good.

The situation of African swine plague has been effectively controlled. 24 provinces have lifted the blockade of the epidemic area, and the order of pig production and marketing is gradually recovering. In addition to live pigs, livestock and poultry farming and other aspects of accelerated development.

_Wei Baigang, Director of Development Planning Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, said that the increase of farmers'income was "two higher" and rural consumption was growing faster. In the first half of this year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 7778 yuan, which increased by 6.6% in real terms, higher than the GDP growth rate of 0.3 percentage points and 0.9 percentage points higher than that of urban residents.

Wei Baigang also said that in the first half of the year, the effect of industrial poverty alleviation was obvious. High-quality agricultural products from poor areas went out of villages and into cities, driving the income growth rate of poor households to continue to be higher than the national average.

_Farmers'income has increased rapidly, which effectively drives rural consumption. The retail sales of rural consumer goods in China have increased by 9.1% year on year, which is higher than that in cities and towns by 0.8 percentage points, and the potential of rural consumption has been continuously released.

Wei Baigang, Director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, said that in the first half of the year, the overall economic situation in rural areas was stable and stable, which played an important supporting role in ensuring supply, stabilizing prices and increasing confidence, and added a base gas for effectively responding to risk challenges.

_. Optimizing Agricultural Structure and Improving Quality and Efficiency of Industries

At a press conference held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas yesterday (19), the responsible person said that the sustained optimization of agricultural structure and the improvement of rural industry quality and efficiency were the highlights of the agricultural and rural economy in the first half of the year.

In the first half of the year, the agricultural structure continued to optimize. The quality of wheat is obviously better than that of the previous year. The area of high-quality special wheat accounts for 33%, which is 3 percentage points higher than that of last year. Starting the soybean revitalization plan, the area is expected to increase by more than 10 million mu.

At the same time, the mode of agricultural development is also changing green.

Wei Baigang, Director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, said that the supply of green and high-quality agricultural products had increased significantly, with over 40,000 green, organic and geographically marked agricultural products.

Wei Baigang said that in the first half of the year, the processing industry of agricultural products continued to maintain a good situation. It is expected that the processing industry of agricultural products above the scale will achieve a business income of 6.8 trillion yuan, an increase of about 4% over the same period last year. Leisure tourism and e-commerce for agricultural products are booming.

Wei Baigang, Director of the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas: Taking the construction of modern agricultural industrial parks as the lead and promoting the revitalization of rural industry, 114 national-level modern agricultural parks have been established throughout the country, and more than 1,000 provincial-level and a large number of municipal-county-level industrial parks have been set up by demonstration.

In the first half of the year, the qualified rate of sampling inspection of agricultural products exceeded 97%.

_The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas released yesterday (19). In the first half of the year, the quality and safety of agricultural products in China maintained a high level. The quality and safety of agricultural products were routinely monitored and sampled, and the overall eligibility rate was stable at over 97%.

In the first half of the year, routine monitoring and sampling of agricultural product quality and safety covered 31 provinces and 153 large and medium-sized cities. 108 large quantities of fresh agricultural products were sampled in five categories, including vegetables, fruits, tea, livestock and poultry products and aquatic products.

_Cheng Jingen, a first-level inspector of the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Supervision Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, showed that the overall eligibility rate of sampling inspection was 97.2%, up 0.1 percentage points from the same period last year. Among 108 varieties monitored, 64 were more than 99% qualified. The qualified rate of vegetables reached the best level in history, and the quality and safety level of agricultural products continued to stabilize and improve.

_Cheng Jingen said that routine monitoring of agricultural product quality is a kind of risk monitoring, aiming at finding hidden problems, strengthening supervision and control, and ultimately providing safe and reassuring agricultural products for the market. Therefore, this year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas readjusted and improved its monitoring plan to expand random sampling. At the same time, the sampling proportion of agricultural products from cultivation and breeding to entering wholesale, retail markets or production and processing enterprises increased from 27% to 50%. In addition, the monitoring parameters of banned drugs were increased to 130 items.

Cheng Jingen, a first-level inspector of the Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Supervision Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, also found some problems in the monitoring, mainly the excessive residues of conventional pesticides and the detection of a small amount of veterinary drugs. In response to these problems, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas requires local authorities to follow up and carry out spot checks, crack down on violations of laws and regulations, and continue to carry out special remedies such as banned antibiotics for eggs and veterinary drug residues in aquatic products.

_Steady growth of agricultural trade in the first half of the year

Yesterday, (19), the responsible person of the Ministry of agriculture and rural affairs also introduced that agricultural products trade has been growing steadily this year and agricultural cooperation has been expanding continuously. The agricultural cooperation of "one belt and one road" has achieved remarkable results.

From January to May this year, the total import and export volume of agricultural products reached 623.96 billion yuan, an increase of 10.6% over the same period last year. Among them, China's agricultural imports increased by 14.1% and exports by 4.1% year-on-year.

_Wei Baigang, Director of Development Planning Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas, said that the sources of imports have changed significantly, and the imports of agricultural products from Brazil, ASEAN, EU and Australia have maintained relatively rapid growth. The export volume of tea increased, while the export of aquatic products, vegetables and other superior agricultural products remained stable. The export markets of agricultural products such as EU and ASEAN have maintained good growth momentum.

According to the introduction, the agricultural cooperation development along the belt has been steadily advancing. China has signed agricultural and fishery cooperation documents with more than 80 countries, and has identified 10 agricultural cooperation demonstration zones in participating countries. In 2018, the total trade volume of agricultural products between China and the "one belt and one way" participating countries exceeded US $77 billion, an increase of 17.8% over five years ago.

_Ma Hongtao, Deputy Director of International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Areas: The field of agricultural investment cooperation has also been greatly expanded. China has invested more than 650 projects in the "one belt and one way" participating countries in agricultural investment cooperation, and the investment stock has reached US $9 billion 440 million, an increase of 70% over that of five years ago.