Bureau of Statistics will increase direct investigative capacity for major agricultural products

Bureau of Statistics: It will intensify its efforts to directly investigate agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, sugar and pigs (11.15, 0.18, and 1.64%), and steadily push forward sampling of crops on the land. Xinhuanet.com Beijing, December 30th (Wang Wenpin) 2011, China's pork and cabbage The prices of other agricultural and sideline products fluctuate greatly. The release of relevant data on major agricultural products has become the focus of attention, and the early warning of information detection has received much attention. At the national statistical work conference held recently, the National Bureau of Statistics emphasized that it will deepen the reform of professional statistical systems and methods, and increase the ability to directly investigate major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, and pigs.

According to the data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total grain output this year is more than 570 million tons, which is an increase of 4.5% from 2010. Eight consecutive increases have not come easily. However, new and old issues such as the stable growth of grain production and the unsteady foundation of farmers’ continued income increase remain.

Researcher Dang Guoying, a researcher at the Institute of Rural Development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview that whether the price of agricultural products is stable or not depends on the enthusiasm of farmers for farming.

The government has introduced a series of measures for the recent sharp fluctuations in the prices of major agricultural and sideline products. On the 19th of this month, the State Council issued a document saying that it will establish and improve an important agricultural product reserve system and guarantee emergency supply so as to prevent price fluctuations.

According to the reform plan for crop survey methods, the National Bureau of Statistics will start with the pilot surveys of crops and land in Jiangsu Province, Henan Province, and Liaoning Province, and combine 13 major grain-producing provinces and major food production counties to steadily advance sampling of crops to the ground. jobs. Ma Jiantang said that the establishment of a sampling system for agricultural output sampling can fundamentally improve the quality of agricultural output data and provide a reliable basis for the country to make macroeconomic decisions.

In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Central Rural Work Conference concluded in Beijing on the 28th also disclosed that in 2012, monitoring of vegetable production information will be expanded to 580 key counties in China, and information service capabilities for producers and operators will be enhanced.