Embracing Policy Benefits! Countermeasures And Suggestions For Facility Agriculture In China

Hebei is a major agricultural province. The development of facility agriculture holds significant practical importance for enhancing the quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of agricultural development in Hebei Province, as well as upgrading the level of agricultural modernization and achieving the transformation from a major agricultural province to a strong agricultural province. Riding on the policy momentum, facility agriculture will witness substantial growth. Simultaneously, facility agriculture will drive the development of related industries, accelerate the pace of rural revitalization, and promote the transformation of county-level industries. The development of facility agriculture is an important indicator of agricultural modernization and an essential construction task for modern agricultural development. It comprehensively utilizes modern biological, engineering, and information technologies to improve the local environment, providing relatively controllable environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, light, water and fertilizer, and air for the production of animals and plants. It establishes an annual continuous production system for animals and plants on limited land and is a modern agricultural production mode characterized by high-tech content, high investment, high output, and high efficiency.

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Strengthen Overall Planning and Zoning Layout

Plan and design the development strategy of facility agriculture in Hebei Province with high standards. Based on different agricultural ecological types, the original industrial infrastructure conditions in each county and district, and the market demand levels of products, rationally distribute facility types, planted varieties, planting patterns, and industrial formats by zones. Surrounding Beijing, Tianjin, Xiong'an, and major metropolitan areas, focus on developing modern facility agricultural industrial parks with strong market competitiveness and make effective use of the central support policies. In the well-established production areas of eastern Hebei and central-southern Hebei, it is necessary to further upgrade the equipment levels of solar greenhouses and sheds, and develop fruit and vegetable supplies mainly based on orders. The province should accelerate the construction of an annual supply structure combining plant factories, solar greenhouses, arched shed facility planting, and open-field cultivation, and gradually form a new pattern of facility agriculture featuring industrial cluster development, advanced factor concentration, and a complete industrial chain.

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Strengthen Policy Guidance and Industrial Support

Implement classified policies for different facility types, give priority to supporting factory-based seedling production, accelerate the standardization and regularization of greenhouse sheds, upgrade outdated shed facility equipment, and encourage energy-saving and circular economy transformation in plant factories and digital pastures. Increase financial investment, guide and leverage financial funds and social capital to form a multi-channel, diversified, and multi-level capital investment pattern and guarantee mechanism. Introduce facility agricultural insurance pilots, include facility vegetable greenhouses in the subsidy scope for agricultural machinery purchases in the province, and support the construction of facility agriculture on idle and abandoned land. Insist on integrating facility agricultural projects with rural revitalization projects, and carry out integrated design with agricultural modernization demonstration areas, characteristic agricultural clusters, modern agricultural industrial parks, agricultural science and technology modernization pioneer counties, and rural revitalization demonstration areas to exert the superimposed effect of policies and promote the strategic upgrade of facility agriculture in our province.

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Upgrade Facility Equipment and Technology

Intensify research and development efforts for different facility types in different regions, focus on the practicality, standardization, and regularization of facilities, promote the upgrading of production facilities from traditional simplicity to high performance, and prioritize the development of land-saving, energy-saving, steel-frame, and large-space new-type sheds to enhance the comprehensive production and emergency guarantee capabilities of facility bases. Focus on the research and development of supporting equipment, make full use of modern information technology, control technology, artificial intelligence technology, Internet of Things technology, etc., to realize the intelligentization of facility equipment and promote the digitalization, energy-saving, and greening of agricultural production. Make full use of the intelligent equipment achievements of agricultural research institutes and other institutions, and accelerate the integrated application of technologies and equipment such as intelligent environmental regulation, integrated water and fertilizer management, information monitoring, and automatic control. Give full play to the role of the provincial vegetable industry innovation team and focus on supporting major key core technology innovation and promotion demonstrations. Encourage and guide universities, research institutes, and enterprises to establish industrial technology alliances and conduct collaborative innovation and research through multiple disciplines and departments to lead the development of facility agriculture through innovation.

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Guide Leading Enterprises and Service-oriented Enterprises in Facility Agriculture

Currently, Hebei Province has shortcomings in aspects such as facility structure and environmental regulation capabilities, and the unit area yield and economic benefits are relatively low. We should fully utilize the opportunity of coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, introduce more leading facility agriculture enterprises from Beijing and Tianjin, and accelerate the transformation and application of technological achievements such as facility design and construction, environmental regulation, precise control of water and fertilizer, and soilless cultivation in our province. For service-oriented leading facility agriculture enterprises that provide integrated solutions in areas such as financial leasing, seedling introduction, base construction, quality control, sales channels, and brand creation, provide corresponding policy support in terms of finance, taxation, and credit. Adhere to the "market orientation and coordinated cooperation" to promote better connection among upstream, midstream, and downstream industrial entities and achieve the integrated development of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries.