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By CnAgri2018-03-16 11:18:25 Print l  The State Council’s institutional reform proposes to establish the Rural Department of Agriculture and cancel the Ministry of Agriculture. The issue of agriculture and rural peasants is a fundamental issue related to the national economy and people's livelihood. The plan proposes to integrate the responsibilities of the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as the responsibilities of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Water Resources on the management of agricultural investment projects, and build the Rural Department of Agriculture as a component of the State Council. Its main responsibilities are to coordinate research and organize and implement "three rural" work strategies, plans and policies, supervise crop farming, animal husbandry, fisheries, agricultural, agricultural mechanization, agricultural product quality and safety, and take charge of agricultural investment management.
In 2018, Heilongjiang Province adjusted and optimized the regional layout and variety structure according to the general idea of ​​“reducing corn, controlling rice, increasing bean and expanding side crops and fruits &vegetables”. Based on the reduction of 2.267 million hectares of grain corn in the past two years, it strives to achieve new breakthroughs in rice and corn reduction this year and expand the sown area of specialty crops such as grains, beans, vegetables, and edible fungi to 1.333 million hectares. Heilongjiang will continue to cut down grain corn planting in non-dominant areas in the 4^th and 5^th accumulated temperature zones, and focus on the development of processing-only and fresh-eating corn in the dominant areas, and aims at to make the area of paddy down about 100,000 hectares by reducing the sown area of poor-taste paddy that need be irrigated and purchased for storage.