For the first time, Shandong put forward the peasants' “independent purchase”

This year, the central government arranged for the first batch of subsidies for agricultural machinery purchases in Shandong Province of 1.592 billion yuan, an increase of 457 million yuan over the previous year, which was 92% of the total amount of the previous year. Subsidy work is about to start in full swing. The reporter learned from the province's agricultural machinery purchase subsidy work conference that Shandong Province has significantly increased the amount of subsidies for large-scale cotton pickers this year, the single-subsidy amount has been increased from 300,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan, and the subsidy standard for agricultural machinery deep-settling and soil preparation has been from 25 yuan each. Mu increased to 40 yuan. In order to reduce the administrative intervention in the purchase market, the province first proposed that farmers “independently purchase”, and the national and provincial promotion catalogues are no longer used as the qualification basis for product subsidies.

It is reported that this year's central government budget funds will be used to subsidize equipment required for key production processes such as grain, cotton, and oil. The province's agricultural machinery subsidy products cover a total of 11 categories, 35 subcategories, and 78 items. They are used for large-scale tractors with a capacity of over 100 horsepower, purchased for subsoilers, grain dryers, no-tillage seeders, rice transplanters, and deep-soil machines. Major subsidies for agricultural machinery such as cotton machines and peanuts are open subsidies, giving priority to satisfying farmers' needs and fulfilling their needs. For the equipment with a subsidy of more than 30,000 yuan, the number of subsidy equipment per year for agricultural production individuals is limited to one, and the annual number of subsidy equipment for agricultural production and operation organizations is limited to six.

"The increase in the amount of subsidies is a good thing for cotton farmers." This year our province's cotton planting area is expected to be reduced to more than 600 million mu. According to Wang Wujun, director of Dongying Agricultural Machinery Office, the main reason for the low harvest rate is the province. Manually harvesting cotton costs about 500 yuan per mu, and machinery picking costs only 250 yuan. Last year, the area of ​​local machine-picking cotton reached more than 10,000 mu. A farmer in the Lixi County Chunxi Farmers' Professional Cooperative employs 7,000 mu of cotton fields. The province's machine-picking cotton planting area is 100,000 mu. Due to the high price of cotton pickers, there are currently only 8 cotton pickers in the province.

It is reported that this year our province will implement subsidy for subsidizing agricultural machinery in 66 pilot counties. The first batch of funds has been allocated to the county with 55 million yuan. The subsidy target is agricultural production and operation organizations such as agricultural cooperatives, agricultural machinery large households, family farms, and large grain producers that carry out agricultural machinery deep-separation operations. In order to ensure quality, our province will promote the use of automatic monitoring equipment installed on the machine. This year, our province has also selected 31 counties and cities such as Zhangqiu City, and continues to carry out trials for scrapping and renewing subsidies.

Gao Mingfei, director of the Provincial Bureau of Agricultural Machinery, said that this year the province has fully implemented the “independent purchase, county-level settlement, fixed-rate subsidies, and direct subsidy to households” throughout the province. Changing the full-price purchase to self-purchasing is designed to give full play to the role of the market and reduce the risk of integrity. In the future, as long as it is a product that has obtained ministerial or provincial promotion certification, even if it is not in the national and provincial promotion catalog, it will have subsidy qualifications. Farmers can independently choose to subsidize the product distribution companies to purchase, and they can also go through direct sales. Purchase, but it is responsible for the authenticity of the independent purchase behavior and equipment purchase, and bear the corresponding risks. The subsidized product distribution companies are determined by the agricultural machinery production enterprises and announced to the public.

The government is responsible for blacklisting companies and individuals that violate the law and subsidizing distribution, and it is not allowed to subsidize products. Last year, the province cancelled the qualifications for all product subsidies of Hebei Fangyue Agricultural Machinery Technical Service Co., Ltd. in accordance with regulations, and listed legal representatives on the blacklist of subsidies.