CCTV News: According to the China Supply and Marketing WeChat official account, the China All-China Supply and Marketing Cooperative (hereinafter referred to as the General Agency) recently issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in the Supply of Agricultural Indications in 2025", requiring the entire system to thoroughly implement the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural inputs, better play the role of the main channel for agricultural input circulation of supply and marketing cooperatives, do their best to supply agricultural inputs in spring, and serve and ensure national food security.
The Notice points out that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the work of ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural inputs. Supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and instructions, firmly grasp the new arrangements and requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural inputs, effectively enhance the sense of responsibility and mission of doing a good job in ensuring the supply and price stability of agricultural inputs, conscientiously implement the work arrangements of the 8th Council of the 7th General Council, and do a solid job in ensuring the supply and price stability of spring farming agricultural inputs, and make new contributions to serving and ensuring national food security.
The "Notice" requires that supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should speed up the procurement of goods and make every effort to ensure that the supply of spring farming agricultural supplies is uninterrupted and not out of stock. We must increase our attention to agricultural input business, carefully analyze and judge the spring agricultural production situation, investigate and sort out the progress of systematic agricultural input enterprises' procurement and reserve, guide enterprises to actively carry out production and sales docking, accelerate the progress of supply procurement, reserve, and hem, and make every effort to ensure that spring farming agricultural inputs are sufficient and hem is in place. In view of the current situation of spring plowing preparation, we must coordinate the adverse effects of rain, snow and freezing weather on the transportation of agricultural supplies, coordinate and implement railway, highway and waterway shipping plans in advance, and do a good job in cross-regional adjustment and transportation of agricultural supplies, and timely deliver them to grassroots outlets. We must strengthen the construction of emergency supply guarantee capacity for agricultural supplies and improve the systematic emergency supply guarantee system for agricultural supplies.
The "Notice" emphasizes that supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should continue to implement the "green agricultural inputs" upgrade action in depth and improve the level of agricultural inputs supply and service. We must guide and promote systematic agricultural input enterprises to increase the supply of green products, improve the agricultural input network system, expand agricultural social services, and accelerate the progress towards high-quality development. It is necessary to guide and promote the implementation of systematic agricultural input enterprises to implement scientific fertilization and drug efficiency enhancement actions, further expand the supply of environmentally friendly high-quality agricultural inputs such as water-soluble fertilizers, organic fertilizers, formula fertilizers, microbial fertilizers and high-efficiency, low-toxicity, and low-residue pesticides, continuously increase the sales of green agricultural inputs, and promote the efficiency of controlling chemical fertilizers and reducing pesticides. It is necessary to guide and promote the innovation of service methods and means of systematic agricultural input enterprises, provide farmers with productive full-process custody services and convenient and efficient agricultural social services such as formula fertilization, unified prevention and control, and agricultural machinery operations according to local conditions, and accelerate the transformation to a modern comprehensive agricultural service provider. Places with conditions can actively participate in high-standard farmland construction and management, comprehensive soil management, agricultural non-point source pollution prevention and control, pesticide packaging waste, waste agricultural film recycling and treatment, etc., to help build livable, business-friendly and beautiful villages. We must replicate and promote the successful experience of the "Green Agricultural Indications" upgrade action pilot, encourage provinces with conditions to carry out provincial "Green Agricultural Indications" upgrade action pilot projects, and create more county-level agricultural indices work models.
The "Notice" requires that all provincial supply and marketing cooperatives and China Supply and Marketing Group Co., Ltd. should vigorously promote the construction of the agricultural input network system and consolidate the foundation for ensuring the supply of agricultural inputs in the system. We must conscientiously implement the "Special Plan for the Construction of the National Supply and Marketing Cooperative Agricultural Indications Network System (2024-2028)", steadily promote the "116 Project", steadily promote the construction of national strategic agricultural indices (reserve) databases, and further improve the systematic agricultural indices network system. We must give full play to the leading role of planning, make an organic connection between the special plan of the provincial agricultural input network system and the national special plan, and integrate the provincial (unit) provincial network into the national agricultural input backbone network. We must accelerate the implementation of the county-level network construction project for agricultural input circulation for supply and marketing cooperatives, and complete the annual tasks of building new county-level agricultural input enterprises and newly building and renovating county-level agricultural input distribution centers with high quality. We must promote the system's agricultural input enterprises to go down to sales channels, extend the service chain, expand and strengthen cooperation with grassroots agencies and other grassroots outlets, support grassroots agencies to expand agricultural input business, continuously improve network coverage and terminal distribution capabilities, and strive to open up the "last mile" of agricultural input supply.
The "Notice" requires that supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should strengthen supervision and guidance and ensure the implementation of agricultural supplies reserve tasks. We must urge the systematic agricultural input enterprises to earnestly prepare and release important agricultural inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, and seeds, and complete the national and local storage tasks with quality and quantity.
The "Notice" emphasizes that supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels should further strengthen the quality and price management of agricultural supplies and safeguard the rights and interests of farmers. We must improve and perfect the relevant management systems, actively cooperate with relevant departments to do a good job in anti-counterfeiting of agricultural materials, inspection and other work, resolutely prevent counterfeit and inferior agricultural materials from flowing into the market through the business channels of the supply and marketing cooperative system, and maintain the good image of the supply and marketing cooperative "safe agricultural materials". We must increase the promotion and application of the national agricultural input quality and safety traceability platform, promote the construction of a systematic agricultural input enterprise credit system, and improve the level of agricultural input quality supervision. We must give full play to the role of the national agricultural supplies guarantee platform, promote systematic agricultural supplies enterprises to carry out business cooperation such as centralized collection and distribution, centralized procurement and direct sales, and strive to reduce the purchase cost and circulation costs of agricultural supplies, and give more benefits to farmers. The China Agricultural Info Circulation Association should strengthen the price monitoring of the national agricultural input market, timely release price and early warning information to the industry and system, and guide the systematic agricultural input enterprises to reasonably grasp the purchase and sales rhythm and operate stably.
According to reports, more than 4,500 agricultural input enterprises in the national supply and marketing cooperative system are currently accelerating the procurement and reserve progress, ensuring cross-regional transportation, promoting the accelerated hem of the supply of goods, and making every effort to ensure that the spring farming agricultural inputs are continuously raised and not out of stock.