On January 18, the State Council Office held a press conference to introduce the operation of agricultural and rural economy in 2022. "The agricultural and rural economic development in the past year has withstood multiple tests, achieved more than expected results, stabilized the basic situation and consolidated the ballast." Zeng Yande, chief agronomist of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and director of the Department of Development and Planning, introduced at the press conference. The grain production bucked the trend and won a bumper harvest. The project of improving the production capacity of soybean oil crops "started well". In 2022, China's grain production will have another bumper harvest, and the foundation of supply security will continue to be stable. The grain output reached a record high. In 2022, the grain planting area will be 1.775 billion mu, an increase of 10.52 million mu over the previous year, with an output of 1373.1 billion jin and an increase of 7.4 billion jin. Pan Wenbo, Director of the Department of Crop Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that in the face of multiple difficult challenges such as epidemic and disaster, China has achieved a bumper harvest against the trend. "To win the tough battle of fighting the disaster and winning the harvest, the important guarantee is to pay attention to both justice and benefit, and mobilize the enthusiasm of local governments to pay attention to agriculture and grain farming." Pan Wenbo said, "justice" is to compact the responsibility. For the third consecutive year, the provincial people's government has been assigned grain production targets and tasks, and all localities have conscientiously implemented the same responsibility of the party and government for food security. The leading comrades of the party committee and government have personally studied the deployment and arrangement, and compacted the responsibility at all levels, Make every effort to tap the potential of grain production. On the basis of the increase in the previous year, the annual grain area increased by 10.52 million mu last year, exceeding the target. "Benefit" is to strengthen policy support. Pan Wenbo said, "In 2022, the central government's support for grain production will be very strong, which is rare in many years." The minimum purchase price of rice and wheat will continue to be raised, and a total of 40 billion yuan of one-time subsidies will be distributed to actual grain farmers three times, double the amount in 2021; Increase incentives for major grain-producing counties and expand the scale of rotation funds; We will allocate 7 billion yuan to support summer grain to promote strong and stable production, and 10 billion yuan to support autumn grain to resist high temperature and drought, effectively mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for production. Pan Wenbo said that in 2023, we should take grain production as the primary task of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers", strive to stabilize the grain planting area, strive to expand the soybean oil crop, focus on improving the unit yield, and spare no effort to maintain the good momentum of stable grain production and increase production by taking the new round of action to increase grain production capacity of 100 billion kilograms as the starting point. Expanding the planting of soybeans and oilseeds is one of the key tasks of agricultural and rural work. "The expansion of soybean oil crops has achieved remarkable results." Zeng Yande said that in 2022, China's soybean area will reach 154 million mu, an increase of 27.43 million mu over the previous year, which is the year with the highest area since 1958. The output was 20.28 million tons, an increase of 3.89 million tons. The area of rape reached 109 million mu, an increase of nearly 4 million mu, and the total output of oil crops was 36.53 million tons, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year. Pan Wenbo said that through the joint efforts of various parties, the 2022 soybean oil production capacity improvement project achieved a "good start", with the self-sufficiency rate of soybean increased by 3 percentage points last year and the self-sufficiency rate of edible vegetable oil increased by 1.6 percentage points. In 2023, we will ensure that the area of soybean oil crops will be stabilized at more than 350 million mu, strive to expand the area of soybean oil crops by more than 10 million mu, increase the self-sufficiency rate of edible vegetable oil by 1 percentage point, and strive to