Business Opportunities in the Agricultural Industry in 2023

The No. 1 Central Document of 2023 did not propose a new goal and task as in previous years, but proposed very specific tasks with rural revitalization and building a modern agricultural power as the main line.

• Bottom line: Food security, preventing large-scale return to poverty
• Goal: Building an agricultural power with rural revitalization as the starting point
• Food security: 1.865 billion mu of arable land and 1.546 billion mu of permanent basic farmland cannot be less, ensuring an annual grain output of more than 1.3 trillion jin. The production protection strategy is: land area is limited, and production must be protected by increasing yield per unit area, and at the same time, the enthusiasm of growers must be increased. Specific practices: achieve the goal by implementing several actions. Specific actions include actions to increase grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, creation of ton-grain fields, and yield increase actions for rice, wheat, and corn.
  • 1. Arable land protection, focusing on soil improvement, construction of farmland irrigation and drainage facilities, and promotion of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation.
  • 2. Newly added arable land, mainly developing and utilizing saline-alkali land, but the thinking has changed, from transforming saline-alkali land to breeding crops to adapt to saline-alkali land.
  • 3. Water conservancy, building modern large and medium-sized irrigation areas, building small and medium-sized reservoirs, building drought-resistant motor-pumped wells, building backbone water systems and canals, and implementing water and fertilizer integration in the fields.
  • 4. Disaster prevention and control, strengthening monitoring of climate, drought and flood, plant pests and diseases, and fire, wheat “one spray and three defenses”, rice and corn “one spray and multiple promotions”.
• Oil crops: Plant more soybeans, rapeseeds, oil tea, and oil sunflowers, and implement alternatives to reduce feed soybean meal.
• Seed industry: Focus on biological breeding of soybeans, rapeseeds, corn, and saline-alkali tolerant crops.
• Develop modern facility agriculture: Develop facility planting with energy saving and suitability for machinery as the mainstay. Three years of the epidemic have exposed the mismatch between vegetable production areas and consumption areas. In the future, vegetable supply will be guaranteed from two aspects: developing urban suburban agriculture and fresh cold chain transportation. Focus on rice seedling raising centers (implementing subsidy policies for the construction of centralized seedling raising facilities), vegetable intensive seedling raising centers, vegetable emergency supply guarantee bases, plant factory construction, grain drying, agricultural product origin cold storage, and cold chain logistics.
• Agricultural materials: Reduce chemical fertilizers and pesticides and increase efficiency, promote intelligent recommended fertilization systems, and promote multiple alternatives to reduce chemical fertilizer input. Build 100 green prevention and control counties, and implement emission reduction and carbon sequestration in agriculture and rural areas.
• Agricultural machinery: Focus on developing one large (large-scale intelligent agricultural machinery equipment) and one small (small agricultural machinery and tools for hills and mountains and gardens), focusing on supporting the development of tractors for hills and mountains, 300-horsepower continuously variable transmission tractors, regenerated rice harvesters, soybean-corn strip compound planting special machinery, etc., and subsidizing Beidou intelligent monitoring terminals and assisted driving systems, but the subsidy method should be changed to be based on the amount of work as the basis for evaluation.
• Smart agriculture and digital villages: In-depth implementation of digital village development actions, promoting the research and development and promotion of digital application scenarios. Accelerate the application of agricultural and rural big data, and promote the development of smart agriculture. Build a national agricultural remote sensing application center, implement digital agriculture construction projects, build a number of digital agriculture innovation centers and digital agriculture innovation application bases, and collaboratively tackle key core technologies of smart agriculture. Build smart farms.
• Talents: Guide university graduates to the countryside, capable people returning to their hometowns, migrant workers returning to their hometowns, and entrepreneurs entering the countryside, and cultivate agricultural science and technology leading talents and outstanding young scientific and technological innovation talents.
• Financial support: Encourage financial institutions to increase rural revitalization loans, focusing on agricultural and rural infrastructure construction such as high-standard farmland, facility agriculture, agricultural product storage and preservation cold chain logistics facilities.

Published at: Mar 3, 2023 · Modified at: Dec 4, 2025