Promoting The Appropriate Scale Management Of Grain Production To Guarantee Food Security

Food production is the basis of the national economics, as well as the security of the food production is the ground of social stability of nation. The assurance of the food security includes the various aspects such as production, processing, storage, and sales, while the key point is the production of food. In recent years, the eating patterns have been changed by the improving process of the household living standard. The raising demand on poultry, egg and milk have brought the dramatic raising demand on feed grain. The storage of energy and the advocacy on renewable energy sources resulted in the increasing storage on industrial-using grain. Therefore, although the food production has been increased for 6years since 2003, the food reserve presents a predisposition that it will probably decrease year by year. With the development of the economics, it is not so feasible to adjust the balance between food supply and demand and assure the food security by adjusting food demand. Through a variety of instruments to promote food production become the only way.With the influence of the adjustment of the agriculture structure, ecological restoration, natural disaster and non-agricultural occupation, the cultivated land resources in our country have decreased continuously, approaching the warning limit of 18 billion arcs. Other to deceasing of cultivated land resources, limitation of water resources, natural disaster, many other limitations are still applied to the environment of food production, like the shortage of infrastructure, Farmers are not enthusiastic about grain-growing, technological backwardness of agricultural production and so on. With the limited natural resources, implement the most stringent farmland protection system, reform the agricultural extension system and other means of production technologies are essential. But the most important method is to arouse their enthusiasm for grain production. Country's macro-objectives is to ensure food security, when farmers'micro-objective is to increase income, improving the economic benefits of grain production is the key to achieve the two goals at the same time.There are two ways to improving the economic efficiency of grain production, including increasing food sales and reducing the cost. These means are public finance subsidy system, promote advanced technologies to increase food production, raise the government purchase price of grains and so on. Compared with foreign countries, the per unit area yield of grain of China is not low. As we see, if we decide to raise the government purchase price of grains, we had to squeeze the price of the principal means of agricultural production. As a short-term incentive, Price increases may cost-push inflation if mismanaged. Facts have proved that higher costs of grain direct subsidy policy implementation, and also not so helpful to arouse famers'enthusiasm for grain production. So we have to consider an alternative way to increase grain-growing revenue.And that is optimum-scale farm management based on economies of scale.On one hand, optimum-scale farm management can not only enhances the productive efficiency of agricultural production, reduce production costs, but also increase revenue by expansion of grain-growing area. On the other hand, optimum-scale farm management can also promote the farmers to adopt new production techniques, use agricultural machinery instead of labor,and improve major producers'anti-risk ability, as well as bargaining power. There are also conducive to the formation of a stable team of professional producers of grain production.