The nation's 7330 large and medium -sized irrigation districts have been built at 7330 foundation for food safety and water conservancy basis

CCTV News: my country's large and medium -sized irrigation district is the main battlefield to ensure national food security. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the central government has invested about 150 billion yuan in funds for the construction and transformation of the irrigation district, which has consolidated the water conservancy foundation for food security.

At present, 7330 large and medium -sized irrigation areas have been built nationwide in the country, and farmland in the irrigation area has achieved drought irrigation and waterlogging energy.The effective utilization rate of irrigation water nationwide has increased significantly, and the annual water -saving capacity has reached 48 billion cubic meters.In the past ten years, the cumulative recovery of new irrigation area has reached 60 million mu, improving the irrigation area of nearly 300 million mu, and effectively curbing the decay of irrigation area.The effective irrigation area of farmland across the country has increased from 937 million acres in 2012 to 1.037 billion mu.

Through the construction of large and medium -sized irrigation areas, the comprehensive production capacity of food has been improved.

Chen Mingzhong, director of the Rural Water Conservancy and Hydropower Department of the Ministry of Water Resources: The newly added comprehensive production capacity of food is about 30 billion kilograms. The average production ratio of farmland per mu in large and medium -sized irrigation areas has increased by about 100 kilograms before the transformation.Essence

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