On October 23, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the performance of agricultural and rural economies in the first three quarters of 2023. Pan Wenbo, director of the Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that based on the substantial increase in soybean area last year, the soybean area has increased steadily this year and has stabilized at more than 150 million acres for two consecutive years. At the same time, the demonstration area of soybean and corn strip compound planting reached 20 million acres this year, an increase of about 5 million acres compared with last year.
Pan Wenbo said that now that the soybean harvest is basically over, the next step is to adopt targeted policies and measures to promote the connection between production and marketing, so that if you plant well, you will sell well, so that farmers can make money from growing beans without suffering losses. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has held online production and marketing docking activities for new season soybeans, and online docking promotion conferences for soybean industry investment. At the same time, it has given full play to the role of industry associations, large wholesale markets and other platforms to encourage and guide diversified market entities to enter the market for acquisitions. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Government will hold the first National Soybean Industry Expo in Harbin in mid-November this year. With the theme of "Building a full soybean industry chain and improving supply security capabilities", they will build a platform for industrial exchanges, product promotions, and production and marketing docking. Guide soybean processing enterprises to directly connect with main production areas to promote smooth sales of soybeans.