13 billion agricultural machinery purchase subsidy implemented in place to benefit more than 3 million households

Ministry of Agriculture Agricultural Mechanization Management Division said today, as of November 30, the national agricultural machinery purchase subsidy in full implementation in place, a total of subsidies for more than 3.43 million agricultural machinery (sets), benefiting more than 3 million households. According to the introduction, agricultural machinery purchase subsidy is the party Central Committee, the State Council strong farming policy, an important content, but also to expand domestic demand, promote the steady and rapid economic development of China's major initiatives.　　This year, the central government has significantly increased agricultural machinery purchase subsidy fund scale, from 2008 to 4 billion yuan to 13 billion yuan. The official said that the large increase in agricultural machinery purchase subsidies to promote the rapid growth of agricultural machinery, the optimization of agricultural equipment structure. This year the national agricultural machinery total power is expected to reach 875 million kilowatts, an increase of 6.4%. At the same time, accelerate the process of agricultural mechanization, enhance the comprehensive production capacity of agriculture.　　This year, the national comprehensive mechanization of farming is expected to be more than 48.5%, a 2.65% increase than in 2008, compared to the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy before the implementation of the 2003 increase of 16%.　　This year, the implementation of the subsidy policy early, rapid progress, in the subsidy policy, driven by the enthusiasm of farmers to buy machines, agricultural machinery market supply and demand, the implementation of a good effect, to improve the level of agricultural equipment, speed up the process of agricultural mechanization, promote stable development of agriculture and farmers continue to increase the Under the Central Subsidy Fund, the local finance has invested 1.6 billion yuan in the purchase of agricultural machinery, and the farmers have invested 34 billion yuan. The agricultural machinery market presents the sales season advance, the off-season is not light situation. January-October The scale of agricultural machinery industrial enterprise output value amounted to 187.25 billion yuan, an increase of 23.3%. The total number of national agricultural machinery cooperatives is expected to reach 13,000. The annual agricultural Mechanization service income is expected to reach 380 billion yuan, an increase of 10%.