Firstly, the present situation of agricultural technology popularization and application is analyzed.
(A) the use and supervision of agricultural technology popularization funds
Last year, the county actively implemented the strategy of "developing agriculture through science and technology", strengthened the construction of grass-roots agricultural extension system, constantly improved the agricultural extension service system, further strengthened the education and training of farmers and agricultural technicians, and made efforts to do a good job in agricultural extension. Strictly implement the management regulations on the use of project funds, achieve earmarking, establish a special account for the use of funds, strengthen the supervision of project funds, and ensure that all project funds are used for project construction, which better guarantees the popularization and development of agricultural technology and effectively promotes the industrial development of the county.
(two) the implementation and management of agricultural technology extension projects
The county agriculture has implemented agricultural extension projects such as the establishment of high-yield grain, the demonstration and promotion of natural pig raising technology in biological fermentation bed, the reform of grass-roots agricultural extension system and the construction of demonstration counties. In order to master the implementation of the project and ensure the effect of the project. The county focuses on the following aspects:
1. Clear job responsibilities and strengthen management guidance. Agricultural technology extension projects cover a wide range of fields. In accordance with the principle of graded responsibility and division of responsibilities, strengthen management and guide project implementation. In strict accordance with the relevant requirements of project implementation, strengthen the management, supervision, inspection and evaluation of the project, and timely find and solve the problems existing in the implementation.
2. Check the project to ensure the smooth implementation. After most projects enter the critical stage of implementation, in order to ensure the progress and quality of implementation, agricultural technology extension projects are inspected regularly and irregularly. The inspection adopts the method of self-inspection before spot check, including the availability of funds, the progress of the project, and the results achieved.
3. Make a project summary and implement performance evaluation. According to the requirements of the Administrative Measures, after the completion of the project, the relevant departments at the county level will evaluate the project and summarize the overall situation, effectiveness and evaluation of the project implementation.
4. Seriously sum up the results and strengthen the typical publicity. The county attaches great importance to the implementation of the project, and has set up a leading group for project leadership and implementation, effectively strengthening leadership, implementing responsible departments and specific responsible persons, ensuring that each project is implemented and giving play to the leading role of application demonstration. Excavate and summarize typical examples, conduct extensive publicity through various media, and expand influence.
Second, the main achievements and experiences
(1) High investment drives great development. 20 1 1 year, the investment of agricultural technology popularization projects in this county reached 58 1 10,000 yuan, including 4.5 million yuan for planting, 60,000 yuan for breeding and 6.5438+0.25 million yuan for animal husbandry, which ensured the development of agricultural technology popularization and effectively promoted the development of leading industries in our county. Last year, the high-quality rice industry continued to grow, with the annual rice planting area of 47 1 10,000 mu, including 654,380+0.5 million mu of high-quality rice (including rice for rice flour), 224,000 mu of early rice, 0.4 million mu of middle rice and 233,000 mu of late rice. The total grain output reached 654.38+856 million tons.
1. The development of animal husbandry is strong. The number of live pigs in the county has increased significantly compared with the previous year. This year, the number of live pigs has reached 45 1 1,000, a year-on-year increase of 22.5%. The number of live pigs on hand was175,000, up by 8.5% year-on-year, among which 2 10/00,000 sows could be bred, up by 9.5% year-on-year. Put beef cattle 18576, poultry 5 1865438, goats 6026 and rabbits 15. County-wide ecological farming demonstration community 1 1 household, with 503 ecological farmers1household.
2. The flue-cured tobacco industry reached a record high. The tobacco planting area in the county is 28,600 mu, up 37% year-on-year; Acquired 94,500 tons of tobacco leaves, a year-on-year increase of 62%; Tobacco planting area, purchase amount, purchase amount and tax revenue reached a record high. Ranked third in the province and second in the city.
3. Significant achievements have been made in vegetable production. The county has added 8 production bases of low-priced commodities and vegetables with an area of 100 mu or more, and added 300 mu of greenhouse facilities. Among them, the urban security base is 3000 mu, the township security base is 5000 mu, and the commodity vegetable base is 1 1000 mu. A number of experts and large growers have emerged.
4. Aquaculture has grown steadily. The county's aquaculture area is stable at 34,300 mu. The output of aquatic products has reached 14700 tons, among which the output of special aquatic products is expected to be 1 146 tons, which is basically the same as that in 20 10.
5. Special aquaculture has flourished. Introduce 50 Huai pigs and sows from Fujian to establish 3 Huai pig breeding demonstration and extension bases, and introduce more than 5,000 green shell laying hens from other places to establish a green shell laying hen demonstration field; At the same time, actively guide farmers to develop bamboo rat, beekeeping, lady chicken, goat and other special breeding, so that a large number of farmers can become rich.
6. Leisure sightseeing agriculture has become a new bright spot. In recent years, leisure and sightseeing agriculture in our county has developed vigorously. According to incomplete statistics, up to now, the owners of leisure agriculture in the county have 3 modern agricultural science and technology parks, 3 leisure parks above designated size, 4 leisure farms 12, 4 picking gardens, water sports centers 1, 6 leisure food processing enterprises and more than 30 large and small farmhouses. Leisure sightseeing agriculture covers grain, tobacco leaves, seed production, pigs, characteristic breeding, navel orange, camellia oleifera, Phyllostachys pubescens, fruits, vegetables, flowers and other characteristic leading industries, showing six types. At present, different types of leisure sightseeing agriculture have become a new bright spot of agriculture and rural development in our county. Our county has declared provincial-level leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration county projects.
(2) New technology breeds new vitality. 20 1 1 Do a good job in the display of new varieties, the creation of high-yield grain, the reform and construction of grass-roots agricultural technology extension system, and constantly expand the scope of popularization and application of new technologies.
(3) The transformation of scientific and technological achievements has achieved remarkable results. The county actively completed the transformation and application of agricultural technology achievements, and promoted the popularization and application of experimental and demonstration achievements in the county.
Training to speed up development. Strengthen agricultural technology training, and actively organize all kinds of agricultural technology promotion and publicity activities. 20 1 1 launched the activity of sending agricultural science and technology to the countryside, held more than 20 training courses on various applicable technologies, and trained more than 4,500 farmers. Through training, the quality of farmers has been improved in an all-round way, forming a strong atmosphere for farmers in the county to learn, use and promote development.
Three. Main problems and suggestions at present
(A) Some townships (towns) have not paid enough attention to the popularization and application of agricultural technology. The traditional grass-roots science and technology service system was formed under the long-term planned economy system. Although it has developed well after years of reform, it has not broken through the original institutional framework. Agricultural science and technology extension services are still supported by national agricultural science and technology extension institutions at or above the township level. Township agriculture-related stations failed to give full play to their functions. Some township leaders have the idea that heavy industry is light on agriculture, and they don't know enough about the importance and urgency of implementing "developing agriculture through science and technology". Agricultural technicians are often transferred to non-agricultural service departments and placed in non-agricultural extension work such as comprehensive management and family planning.
(2) Agricultural extension facilities are backward and poorly equipped. Generally, only some provincial and municipal projects distribute agricultural extension equipment in towns and villages, and most of them still adopt the original extension methods and service means of "identification depends on visual inspection, extension depends on experience and service depends on mouth", so it is difficult to scientifically carry out scientific extension services such as soil fertility monitoring, crop nutrient analysis, seed, fertilizer and pesticide quality inspection.
(3) The depth and breadth of publicity and education of agricultural technology popularization are not enough. Although a large number of measures have been taken, efforts have been intensified and breakthroughs have been made in the work, the gap still exists and a lot of work is far from enough. Especially in the form and means of publicity and education, it is still relatively simple, stopping at the point and staying on the surface. Without a good long-term publicity mechanism, the operability is not strong. Most of the publicity and education are still focused on training, distribution of technical materials, media publicity and so on. Insufficient discussion on the propaganda and education methods of farmers at different levels has restricted the depth and breadth of agricultural technology popularization in the county and affected the development of modern agriculture.
(d) Lack of professionals and poor service quality. At present, there are generally 3-4 people, only 5 people, who are engaged in grass-roots science and technology extension services in a township, but most of them are managers. However, the number of real professional and technical personnel is decreasing, and a considerable number of them are older, have aging knowledge, have less exercise opportunities, lack business philosophy under the conditions of market economy, do not know how to collect, sort out and analyze network information, and mainly rely on experience to engage in business and services, and the service quality has not been improved. In addition, with the continuous adjustment of rural industrial structure and the rapid development of professional technology, there is a serious shortage of professionals in special planting and planting, agricultural and sideline products processing, bio-agriculture and network technology, which leads to the lack of technical information services that farmers want.
In view of the problems existing in the popularization and application of agricultural technology in our county, the following opinions and suggestions are put forward:
(A) update the development concept, enhance service awareness. Agriculture is an important part of the national economy and a basic industry related to the overall situation of reform, development and stability. Giving full play to the role of science and technology as the primary productive force is the fundamental choice for traditional agriculture to move towards modern agriculture. Agricultural efficiency, farmers' income and rural economic development must rely on the application and popularization of agricultural science and technology. Further strengthen leadership, elaborate organization, take various forms, open up various channels, publicize popular science to farmers, provide farmers with scientific and technological information, continuously improve and strengthen the construction of agricultural science and technology teams, implement the post target management responsibility system, enrich and strengthen the work force of agricultural science and technology, invigorate the operating mechanism, and provide good services for farmers to popularize and apply agricultural science and technology.
(2) Strengthen farmers' training and improve their scientific and technological quality. Farmers are not only the main body of agricultural science and technology popularization, but also the direct beneficiaries of agricultural science and technology. Only by improving their scientific and technological quality can agriculture develop rapidly. Therefore, on the basis of consolidating the previous scientific and technological training, we should change the focus of scientific and technological training into home-based training, change centralized training into home-based training, and change classroom teaching into on-site answering questions. Through hands-on and face-to-face teaching of technical methods, we should gradually form a scientific and technological group model in which experts drive large families, large families bring small families and farmers help farmers. At the same time, we should focus on cultivating core households, typical households and demonstration households, so that farmers can see, touch, learn and do it through the demonstration of key households. Continue to play the carrier role of science and technology demonstration park, relying on the demonstration effect of the park, bring the most intuitive appraisal of scientific and technological achievements to farmers, and gradually form a science and technology demonstration chain with counties as demonstration areas, townships as demonstration points and villages as demonstration households.
(3) Increase capital investment and improve the agricultural extension team.
Based on the current financial difficulties at the township level, the training funds for agricultural technology extension personnel should be included in the county-level financial budget and special funds for agricultural technology training should be established. The existing agricultural technicians engaged in public services should be re-educated at multiple levels and with multiple contents every year to improve their quality. In addition, we should select a group of outstanding young and middle-aged agricultural technicians to go to agricultural colleges for full-time or part-time study, and speed up the training of a group of senior agricultural technicians to become leaders in grassroots agricultural extension.
First, increase investment in science and technology service facilities. Further improve office conditions, purchase necessary facilities (equipment), and change the situation of "one mouth and two legs" in agricultural technology extension work. The second is to continue to carry out the construction of science and technology household projects. Agricultural technicians should try their best to teach, demonstrate and lead farmers in all kinds of agricultural technology popularization techniques, so that a group of scientific and technological demonstration households with scientific and technological innovation consciousness and strong scientific and technological application level can really play the role of agricultural technology carrier and demonstration radiation in the local area, drive all farmers to carry out scientific farming, and form a long-term mechanism for agricultural technology popularization. The third is to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of scientific and technological personnel. For the existing agricultural science and technology personnel, we should truly be full-time and dedicated, and give them corresponding powers, and ensure certain working funds for those who undertake scientific and technological projects. Vigorously introduce talents, encourage them to flow to the grassroots and the front line of agricultural production, and lead and establish various agricultural science and technology extension entities.
(4) Innovating the concept of promotion and improving the way of promotion. Starting from the needs of farmers, aiming at increasing farmers' income and improving agricultural benefits, actively explore new ways of agricultural technology popularization. On the one hand, make full use of the advantages of wide coverage of county TV stations, release free monitoring and forecasting of agricultural conditions, fertilization and application techniques, and provide farmers with technical, information and training services intuitively and quickly. On the other hand, by strengthening the construction of agricultural science and technology demonstration bases, we will speed up the introduction, testing, demonstration and popularization of new crop varieties, so that farmers can see and move, improve the conversion rate and household rate of agricultural science and technology, and guide farmers to rely on science and technology to get rid of poverty and become rich.