Although Yuanfang Agriculture is affiliated with Yuanfang Group, like other companies, Yuanfang Agriculture is also relatively independent. And about the development of the company, Zhou Fangyuan has always only provided a general direction, just like he said not to get involved in the field of agriculture and food. But he just proposed, especially a company like Yuanfang Agriculture, which is already on the right track, and relies on Zhou Fangyuan to control it, then the top and bottom of the company can resign, because it is useless to ask them.

The existence of these people is to ensure the normal operation of the company when Zhou Fangyuan does not directly control it, to develop and develop, to shrink and shrink, to solve problems when encountered, to face crises, and to solve all negative news at any time in the public relations department, as well as to build a good relationship with local officials around the country. This is how he came before, and these people in the agricultural company have never disappointed Zhou Fangyuan, and the company's development is very good, which makes him satisfied.

This time, the differences between the two sides were too great to be resolved, and in the high-level voting meeting, the forces of the two sides were equal, and neither of them was willing to back down half a step, and the result was the current situation.

When Zhou Fangyuan walked into the venue, everyone would still take the initiative to get up and applaud, but when he sat down, the scene was chaotic.

The participants are very noisy and noisy.

Zhou Fangyuan probably knows the current situation, and the contradiction lies in whether to carry out grain production.

After listening for a while, Zhou Fangyuan probably understood the current situation, he turned on the microphone and knocked lightly.

The people who were arguing slowly stopped.

"I have to say, both of you have a good point of view, but I'm here today to make a choice. Old Xiao, you first tell me what you think. ”

Lao Xiao is the executive deputy general manager of Yuanfang Agriculture.

"Hello chairman, good directors, my opinion is very simple, we are in a very good situation now, the various products produced by distant agriculture have a high position in the domestic market, we currently occupy a large part of the private market, and we occupy almost 50% of the domestic large hotel market In the semi-finished product market, we also occupy a large market share, now we are limited only by insufficient production capacity, as long as our production capacity is sufficient, we can occupy more of the market, the other is the breeding industry and fruit tree planting, with the improvement of people's living standards, the sales of meat and fruits are currently rising year by year, I think we should continue to increase development efforts in this field, rather than to engage in food planting...... Some people are just too ambitious, and they don't worry about whether they are greedy or not, and they don't look at the big difference between themselves and COFCO. ”

Old Xiao said with a sneer.

Bang!

Another deputy general manager, who was sitting across from him, slammed the table.

"Xiao Zhanfang, what do you mean!"

"What do I mean, that's what I mean, you've lost your way, you're going to take the company to the abyss!"

"You're the one who doesn't know how to be flexible......

The two were about to quarrel again.

Zhou Fangyuan could only get up and knock on the microphone again, "Calm down, two, this is not a vegetable market, calm down." ”

After both sides shut up, Zhou Fangyuan looked at the second deputy general manager who stood up, "Lao Yun, you can also talk about it." ”

"Yes, the chairman, the directors, my thoughts, or hope that our agricultural company can get involved in food production, China has always been a big demand for food, there is a large amount of food to import every year, we are different from the United States, limited by the terrain and average income, our country is still difficult to carry out a large area of farm production, food production is seriously limited, which is related to people's livelihood and national stability, if our agricultural company can occupy a certain position in the field of food production, it is also a huge help to the company's safety. As for what someone said about grabbing jobs, I think it doesn't matter, it's just a few grandfathers pressed from above, anyway, the grain we produce by ourselves must be sold to the top, what we need is to make money on the one hand, and shelter on the other, who can say that food production is not important? I am not denying the company's business direction, I just think that we can't give up food production just because there are grandpa and dad above. Food production is very important to the future of agriculture in distant places, and you should also understand it, chairman. In that case, why can't we start experimenting with grain cultivation and production now, and if sooner or later we have to enter, why might it be better to be one day late?"

Yun Shi slowly said his thoughts.

Then, the two sides quarreled once.

Zhou Fangyuan was silent, in fact, he had been thinking about this issue for a long time, to be honest, what both sides said made sense, and he supported Lao Xiao even more. However, Lao Yun is not wrong when he says, agriculture in the distant area will continue to develop, but one day it will fall into a bottleneck period, and how can it continue to go further after entering the bottleneck period?

It's just that food is too important, it is related to national security issues, if he can, Zhou Fangyuan is really unwilling to get involved in it.

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, the internal and external environment of China's grain production has been constantly changing, and the structural characteristics of grain production have been constantly changing.

The relationship between grain supply has changed from "total shortage and insufficient supply" in the early stage of reform and opening up to "basic balance in total amount and prominent structural contradictions" at present.

The organizational model of grain production has changed from the collective management of the people's commune system to the household contract responsibility system characterized by the independent management of small farmers. The degree of mechanization of grain production, the effective irrigation ratio of cultivated land, and the input intensity of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have all been significantly improved, and the degree of intensification of grain production has been continuously improved. At the same time, the incremental effect of capital input in grain production is declining, and the labor productivity of grain production is far lower than the world average, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.

The per capita cultivated area of China's grain production is lower than that of major developing countries, and the characteristics of small-scale peasant agricultural production have not yet undergone fundamental changes. In the process of urbanization, the large-scale population flow characterized by the urban-rural migration of agricultural labor has become an important feature of China's rural transformation, and has also become the basis of the demographic dividend for the rapid development since the reform and opening up. The proportion of agricultural labor in rural employment decreased from 70.5% in 1978 to 27.7% in 2016, and the proportion of grain crops in the total sown area of crops decreased from 80.36% to 67.82%, which promoted the phased transformation of China's grain production.

Since 1978, China's grain output as a whole has gone from a long-term shortage of grain to a surplus in bumper years, grain production capacity has been continuously improved, and grain land productivity and labor productivity have been improved.

In 2015, China's total grain output was 621 million tons, 120 million tons of imported grain, and the grain self-sufficiency rate was 83.92%. The per capita availability of cereals increased from 326 kg in 1980 to 443 kg in 2014. Per capita cereal availability was 10 percentage points below the world average in 1978 and 5 percentage points above the world average in 2014.

The situation has also undergone marked changes in grain import and export trade and grain imports, from a net grain exporter to a net importer. The arable land productivity of grain has been continuously improved, and the yield of grain crops has increased from 2527kg/hm?? in 1978. , up to 5452kg/hm in 2016??。 The increase in grain yields is closely linked to the increasing inputs. Taking chemical fertilizer application as an example, China's chemical fertilizer application rate increased from 8.84 million tons in 1978 to 60.22 million tons in 2015, and the chemical fertilizer input per unit of cultivated land in China increased by 50% from 2002 to 2014, reaching 565.26kg/hm in 2014. , while the rest of the world averages only 138.04 kg/hm??。

In this regard, the problems of food production resources and environment brought about by high-intensity and high-density inputs are becoming more and more prominent. From 1978 to 2015, the proportion of the primary industry in the three industries decreased from 28% to less than 10%, while the proportion of the secondary and tertiary industries increased to 43.9% and 46.1% respectively. From the above analysis, it can be seen that the status of grain production in agricultural production has undergone significant changes, from the era of agricultural production with "grain as the key link" to the period of improving the comprehensive efficiency of agricultural production.

In the process of urban-rural transformation and development, the countryside has gradually changed from "rural area" to "urban and rural area", and the transformation process of grain production has become an important window to explore the evolution of China's rural production system and analyze the process of rural transformation.

As the core content of the rural production system, the status and function evolution of grain production activities have profoundly affected the transformation trend of rural human-land relations. Therefore, studying the transformation process and future development trend of China's grain production since the reform and opening up plays an important role in grasping the future context of rural transformation and development, constructing the path and channel of urban-rural integration development, and straightening out the relationship between urban and rural development. At present, scholars have summarized the experience of agricultural transformation and development since the reform and opening up, the evolution of agricultural management system, the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, the comprehensive zoning of modern agriculture, and the division of grain production provinces and regions.

The particularity of China's grain production transformation is closely related to the strong constraints of the relationship between people and land in rural areas in China. Therefore, taking the evolution of rural human-land relationship in the process of urban-rural transformation and development as the core breakthrough, analyzing the changes in the status of grain production in rural development, and summarizing the characteristics of the differentiated stage of grain production, it plays an important role in ensuring the sustainable development of rural human-land relationship and guiding the modernization of rural production system in an orderly manner.

Moreover, Zhou Fangyuan also knew that in the time and space before his rebirth, after years of hard work, China's grain production has been bumper year after year, and the grain output has exceeded 1.2 trillion catties for five consecutive years, laying a solid foundation for ensuring national food security and promoting economic and social development. However, with the upgrading of consumer demand, grain consumption has jumped from "eating enough" to "eating well", "eating healthy" and "eating conveniently", and the problem of insufficient supply of high-quality food products is prominent, so it is necessary to build a higher-level, higher-quality, more efficient and more sustainable food security system, and continuously improve the supply capacity of high-quality, green and safe grain and oil products.

In recent years, China has taken the promotion of agricultural supply-side structural reform as the main line, continuously deepened the reform of the grain procurement and storage system, and the market operation mechanism of high-quality grain and high price is gradually taking shape, and grain production has changed from "emphasizing output" in the past to "emphasizing quality" at present. Processing enterprises have been fully activated, the reform effect is better than expected, and new results have been achieved in grain procurement and inventory digestion. According to statistics, in 2017, a total of 850 billion catties of grain were purchased, and 169 billion catties of policy grain stocks were digested, especially policy corn stocks decreased by 28% from the historical high.

At present, the situation of grain supply and demand is undergoing profound changes. In recent years, the global grain supply and demand have been relaxed, China's grain production has been bumper in a row, the stocks are abundant, and the security situation has continued to improve. But this in no way means that the food problem can be said to be over.

First of all, the adjustment of grain planting structure, the implementation of fallow crop rotation, the acceleration of inventory digestion, Second, in recent years, not only have urban residents and processing enterprises generally not stocked grain, but peasants have not stockpiled much grain, and if market expectations change at a certain point in time, and urban and rural residents and enterprises buy a little more, supply and demand may become tighter; third, grain consumption demand has maintained a rigid growth, while the marginal cost of increasing grain production has increased, and the constraints of resource and environmental factors have intensified, and China's grain supply and demand are still in a tight balance in the medium and long term; in addition, there are still 37 countries in the world that need food aid, more than 100 million people are threatened with severe food insecurity. As a responsible country with a large population, it is neither realistic nor possible to rely on imports to ensure food.

Let's put it this way, a little more or less food is a technical issue, and food security is a strategic issue, and we should not affect the strategic issue because of technical problems.

It is necessary to always tighten the string of ensuring national food security and ensure that "grain is basically self-sufficient and food rations are absolutely safe." It is necessary to speed up the transformation of agriculture from the orientation of increasing output to the orientation of improving quality, and enhance the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture. The key lies in protecting grain production capacity, building functional zones for grain production and protection zones for the production of important agricultural products, giving preference to policies and implementing the practice of "storing grain on the ground" and "storing grain in technology" to ensure national food security and the effective supply of major agricultural products. It is necessary to further strengthen international cooperation and exchanges in grain, make full use of the "two markets and two resources" at home and abroad, and better implement the national food security strategy and serve the overall situation of foreign affairs.

Therefore, food is really very important for a country, Huaxia, a traditional agricultural country, a large population, the importance of food is even higher, Zhou Fangyuan was afraid of trouble before, and he didn't want to find trouble for himself, so he was unwilling to enter the field of grain production. But Lao Yun is right, sooner or later, distant agriculture will enter it, and this is a situation that any large agricultural company must face later.

Zhou Fangyuan looked at the two deputy general managers who were still arguing, thinking silently in his heart, and swiped his fingers back and forth on the table...... Suddenly, his eyes lit up.

"Ahem, two, don't quarrel yet, since neither of you can convince the other, why don't you listen to my thoughts?"

Everyone stopped talking and looked at Zhou Fangyuan.

"You're all right, it's a good idea to continue to build on the existing capacity and dig deeper into the crops, and it's also very important to produce food, so ......"

Zhou Fangyuan said with a slight pause.

"Why don't you split the company in two?"

Zhou Fangyuan said with a smile.