Developing Facility Agriculture to Help Rural Revitalization

　　Facility agriculture is a modern agricultural production mode with high-tech content, high input, high output and high efficiency, which comprehensively utilizes modern biology, engineering and information technology to improve local environment, provide relatively controllable environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, light, water, fertilizer and air for animal and plant production, and establish an annual continuous production system for animals and plants on limited land. In 2022, the No.1 Document of the Central Committee clearly put forward "accelerating the development of facility agriculture". Hebei province is a big agricultural province, and developing facility agriculture is of great practical significance to improve the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural development in our province, enhance the level of agricultural modernization and realize the leap from a big agricultural province to a strong agricultural province.

　　The significance of vigorously developing facility agriculture

　　Developing facility agriculture is an important starting point to promote the revitalization of rural industries. Supported by science and technology and guided by the market, facility agriculture represents the development direction of modern agriculture and is one of the important symbols to measure the level of agricultural modernization in a country or region. Facility agriculture can effectively improve land productivity, labor productivity and total factor productivity of agriculture, help to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional planting and breeding industry to modern agriculture, promote the transformation of farmers from agriculture to agricultural industrial workers, expand farmers’ income-increasing channels and agricultural value-added space, and empower rural revitalization.

　　Developing facility agriculture is an important measure to promote the modernization of agricultural infrastructure to a new level. Compared with field agriculture, facility agriculture overcomes the uncertainty that traditional agriculture depends on the weather and has poor ability to resist natural disasters. It relies on modern equipment, facilities and technical means to provide a more suitable environment for planting or breeding, and then realizes mechanization, precision and standardization of agricultural production through technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things technology and crop model, and carries many scientific and technological achievements such as digital agriculture, intelligent agriculture, water-saving agriculture, environmental regulation, vegetable production, nutrition and health.

　　Developing facility agriculture is an important guarantee for realizing food security and vegetable basket security and enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader put forward the idea of "establishing a big food concept", and on the premise of protecting the ecological environment, he expanded from cultivated land resources to the whole land resources and asked for food from facility agriculture. Developing facility agriculture according to local conditions can promote the transformation of food supply from single production to multiple supply, and better meet the escalating consumer demand of agricultural products. On the basis of protecting the ecological environment, making full use of Kugaji and abandoned land to develop facility agriculture can greatly improve the land output rate, effectively guarantee food security and vegetable basket security, and promote the high-quality development of agriculture.

　　Developing facility agriculture is an important means to make full use of the supply advantages of fresh agricultural products in Hebei and promote the development of new formats of integration of three industries. Most of the protected agriculture mainly produces fresh agricultural products, with a small market radius. The development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration has sharply increased the demand for high-end fresh agricultural products, and Hebei has obvious regional and market advantages in developing protected agriculture. Facility agriculture production organization is more factory-oriented, environmental facilities are more friendly and controllable, products are more characteristic and quality, and fruits and vegetables are suitable for picking for a longer time than traditional open-air cultivation, which can integrate leisure sightseeing, picking experience and customized production to provide diversified services. The new format, with facility agricultural production as the main body and the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, is conducive to enhancing the added value of agriculture, expanding farmers’ sharing of the value-added benefits of agricultural products processing and sales, and promoting farmers’ common prosperity.

　　Countermeasures and suggestions for vigorously developing facility agriculture

　　At present, the facility agriculture in our province shows a good development momentum, but we should also see that there is still a certain gap compared with developed areas in terms of technical level, product system, factor support, service support and technological innovation. To accelerate the development of facility agriculture from the reality of our province, we need to focus on the following aspects.

　　Strengthen the overall planning and zoning layout. Plan and design the development strategy of facility agriculture in our province with high standards, and rationally distribute facility types, planting varieties, planting patterns and industrial formats according to different agricultural ecological types, original industrial basic conditions of counties and districts and market demand levels of products. Around Beijing, Tianjin, Xiongan and the surrounding metropolis, we will focus on developing modern facility agricultural industrial parks with strong market competitiveness and make good use of the central support policies. The production areas in eastern Hebei and central and southern Hebei with good basic conditions should further upgrade the equipment level of solar greenhouses and sheds, and develop the supply of fruits and vegetables based on orders. The whole province should speed up the construction of the annual supply structure of plant factories, solar greenhouses, arch shed facilities planting and open field cultivation, and gradually form a new pattern of facility agriculture with industrial cluster development, advanced elements gathering and complete industrial chain.

　　Strengthen policy guidance and industrial support. According to different types of facilities, we will give priority to supporting factory seedling production, speed up the standardization and standardization of greenhouses, upgrade backward shed facilities and equipment, and encourage plant factories and digital pastures to implement energy-saving and circular economy transformation. Increase financial investment, guide and incite the entry of financial funds and social capital, and form a multi-channel, diversified and multi-level capital investment pattern and guarantee mechanism. Introduce the facility agriculture insurance pilot, include the facility vegetable greenhouse into the scope of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies in the whole province, and support the construction of facility agriculture in abandoned land in Kugaji. Adhere to the connection between facility agriculture projects and rural revitalization projects, and integrate with agricultural modernization demonstration zones, characteristic agricultural clusters, modern agricultural industrial parks, agricultural science and technology modernization pioneer counties, rural revitalization demonstration zones, etc., give play to the policy superposition effect, and promote the development of facility agriculture in our province to achieve strategic upgrading.

　　Improve the level of facilities, equipment and scientific research and development. According to different types of facilities in different regions, we will intensify research and development, pay attention to the practicality, standardization and standardization of facilities, promote the upgrading of production facilities from traditional simplicity to high performance, focus on the development of land-saving, energy-saving, steel skeleton and large-space new sheds, and enhance the comprehensive production and emergency support capabilities of facility bases. Pay attention to the research and development of supporting equipment, make full use of modern information technology, control technology, artificial intelligence technology, internet of things technology, etc., realize the intelligence of facilities and equipment, and promote the digitalization, energy saving and greening of agricultural production. Make full use of the achievements of intelligent equipment of agricultural research institutes and other institutions, and accelerate the integration and application of technologies and equipment such as regulation, water and fertilizer integration, information monitoring and automatic control in ambient intelligence. Give play to the role of the provincial vegetable industry innovation team, focusing on supporting major key core technology innovation and promotion demonstration. Encourage and guide universities, research institutes and enterprises to establish industrial technology alliances, multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral collaborative innovation to tackle key problems, and lead the development of facility agriculture with innovation.

　　Introduce leading enterprises and service-oriented enterprises in facility agriculture. At present, our province has shortcomings in facilities structure and environmental control ability, and the output per unit area and economic benefits are relatively low. We should make full use of the opportunity of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, introduce more leading enterprises of Beijing-Tianjin facility agriculture, and accelerate the transformation of technological achievements such as facility design and construction, environmental regulation, precision control of water and fertilizer, and soilless culture in our province. For leading service-oriented facility agriculture enterprises that provide integrated solutions in financial leasing, seedling introduction, base construction, quality control, sales channels, brand creation, etc., corresponding policy support is given in finance, taxation, credit and other aspects. Adhere to "market orientation, coordination and cooperation", promote the better connection of industrial entities in the upper, middle and lower reaches, and realize the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.