Steadily Promote the Rice Fishing Integrated Planting and Breeding industry

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice on Steadily Promoting the High Quality Development of the Rice Fishery Comprehensive Planting and Breeding Industry" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), which puts forward 10 work requirements from four aspects: standardization improvement, transformation and upgrading, enriching people's income, and guarantee measures, guiding agricultural and rural (fishery) departments at all levels to continuously and steadily promote the high-quality development of the rice fishery comprehensive planting and breeding industry.

The Notice points out that the development of integrated rice fishing farming should firmly establish the concept of "rice as the mainstay, rice fishing mutual promotion, and green development", firmly hold the bottom line of "not competing with people for food, not competing with food for land", better play the role of integrated rice fishing farming in ensuring food security and stable supply of aquatic products, driving farmers' income growth and prosperity, and strive to achieve more efficient planting and breeding models, greener planting and breeding production, more guaranteed quality and safety, and more typical examples of joint agriculture and agriculture for common prosperity within three to five years.

The Notice requires that all regions should standardize and enhance the promotion of the integrated rice fishery planting and breeding model, implement the national standard of "General Technical Requirements for Integrated Rice Fishery Planting and Breeding", firmly shoulder the responsibility of protecting arable land, stabilize rice production, coordinate various platform resources, strengthen innovation in technology, varieties, equipment, and models, cultivate new agricultural management entities, promote the integrated development of production, processing, and sales, deeply explore the multifunctionality of integrated rice fishery planting and breeding, promote the development of the entire industry chain cluster, further improve the mechanism of linking agriculture with agriculture, and promote the formation of a guidance of multiple benefits for linked agriculture, tight benefits for linked agriculture, and stable benefits for linked agriculture.

The notice emphasizes that all regions should strengthen top-level design, optimize industrial layout, coordinate and make good use of relevant policies such as grain production, fishery development, cultivation of high-quality farmers, and consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements. Carry out monitoring of the development of the rice and fishery industry, timely prevent industry development risks, strengthen the selection and promotion of typical cases, and create a favorable development environment.