Syngenta Group China VP: Accelerate Building of System to Safeguard Agriculture

By China Daily|8 September 2021

The building of a national strategic system on agricultural input emergency guarantees should be accelerated and improved, so as to guarantee agricultural production and food security, said a senior executive of an agrochemical giant and seed producer, reports China Daily.

Drawing on the experiences of building national reserve mechanisms for crude oil, cotton and grain, and learning from the international practices on agricultural emergency security systems, it should be a normal, intensive, systematic and digitalized “national agricultural security” system, said Feng Mingwei, vice-president of Syngenta Group China.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, China’s national reserve base and strengths have been growing continuously, and have played an important role in preventing and resolving major risks and effectively responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Feng said.

However, sudden outbreaks of epidemics, natural disasters and industry changes can still have a negative impact on the placement of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural machinery, and diesel, as well as on agricultural production, which directly or indirectly threatens China’s agricultural production and food security.

A meeting of the Central Committee for Deepening Overall Reform held on August 30 emphasized the national reserve is an important material basis for national governance.