Recently, in response to the start of wheat destruction and the short video of "cutting green wheat for feed" circulating on the Internet, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs attaches great importance to it, and issued a notice requiring all localities to further comprehensively investigate the construction of wheat destruction, silage wheat and other types of wheat destruction, and to deal with violations of laws and regulations together.
While we are amazed by this phenomenon, we should also think about the mainland's food security strategy.
Sima Qian wrote a sentence in the "Records of History": The king regards the people as heaven, and the people take food as the sky. Dr. Kissinger, who is well known to everyone, said, "Controlling food is equivalent to controlling human beings."
Carefully tasted, but found that two celebrities of different nationalities separated by more than two thousand years seemed to have the same words.
According to the Global Food Crisis Report, 193 million people around the world face a food crisis. At the same time, some places make immature wheat into green storage feed.
In fact, many of us talk about the United States, what a strong dollar, what high-tech, what financial hegemony, often ignore the agricultural hegemony of the United States.
It can be said that the foundation of the US dollar hegemony, scientific and technological hegemony and financial hegemony is food hegemony, and after the food hegemony, the United States has the capital to unscrupulously display other hegemony in the world.
There is a saying that if countries around the world were allowed to import U.S. agricultural products with zero tariffs, then almost most of the world's farmers would hang themselves. It is a bit of an exaggeration, but it also shows the strength of the US food hegemony.
This sentence first indicates the scale of grain production in the United States. As we know, the United States is the world's largest exporter of agricultural products and the world's largest exporter of grain, exporting tens of millions of tons of grain every year. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the scale of U.S. agricultural exports will reach $177 billion in 2021, of which China will import $33 billion.
Some people say that the United States has a large number of plains, a large arable area, and more grain exports, which indicates that it has grain hegemony.
Of course, this is only the result of the show, and the reason why we believe that the United States has world food hegemony, in addition to its agricultural export volume being the largest in the world, also includes the following points:
The first is that the United States has an unmatched hegemony over food production, and in simple terms, the level of agricultural yields in the United States is much higher than the world average.
According to fao statistics, in the decade from 2005 to 2014, the average yield of major crops in the United States, such as soybeans, corn, wheat, etc., was more than 1.5 times higher than the world average.
The second is that the United States has seeds and agricultural technology hegemony that other countries cannot match. The United States is the most developed country in the world in agricultural science and technology, and there is no one. The United States occupies 26.7% of the global seed industry market, and among the seed industry companies, Bayer and Cody Hua lead with absolute advantages, with a market share of 23.2% and 16.5%.
The third is that the United States owns three of the world's four largest grain merchants, has hegemony over agricultural products and grain trading, controls more than half of the world's grain market, and has grain pricing power.
The fourth is that the United States often uses these agricultural advantages to exert food hegemony over some countries. For example, countries such as Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico control agricultural production in the country by providing advanced seeds and recycling methods, and then completely hold the food in these countries in the hands of the Americans by collecting patent fees and controlling food sales. Food is often a weapon for the United States to deal with some countries.
Therefore, agriculture is the foundation of the country, so our country has formulated a policy of adhering to the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land, which is also based on the importance of holding the grain bag in its own hands.
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At the same time, we must not be careless in agricultural science and technology such as seeds and fertilizers, and we must ensure food security, which is the embodiment of the hard power of a big country.