The Ministry of Agriculture’s support policies for aquaculture farmers include:
1. Price increase subsidies for fishing diesel. The fishery diesel subsidy policy is an important policy issued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council to strengthen fishing and benefit fisheries. It is the largest central financial subsidy in the history of the fishery industry, has the widest scope of benefits, and is the most direct central financial subsidy to fishermen. "The specific embodiment of the policy in fisheries. From 2006 to 2012, the central government issued fishery diesel subsidy funds of 72.878 billion yuan, accounting for 81.66% of all subsidy funds. The amount of funds ranked first among several subsidy industries. However, it should be noted that in freshwater fisheries, only freshwater fishing vessels can enjoy this policy, and the general freshwater aquaculture industry rarely enjoys this policy.
2. Financial projects for fishery resource protection and industry conversion. A large number of freshwater fish are involved in this project and are released to enhance the aquatic life. The project arranges funds on the basis of provinces and cities under separate state planning. For waters with serious decline in aquatic biological resources or serious ecological desertification, as well as species with mature releasing technology, sufficient seed supply, obvious proliferation effects, and large benefits to fishermen, the proliferation and release funds will be used. Provide key support in arrangements.
3. Fishing mutual insurance premium subsidies. Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the background that the central government has issued a series of guiding opinions to promote the development of agricultural policy insurance, the pace of exploration of fishery insurance has continued to accelerate. In May 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture officially launched the pilot program of central financial premium subsidies for mutual fishery insurance. The pilot insurance types are determined to be fishing vessel total loss mutual aid insurance and fishermen’s personal safety mutual aid insurance. The central government will subsidize 25% of the premiums respectively. The maximum subsidy insurance amount for fishermen’s personal safety mutual aid insurance is 200,000 yuan per person. The pilot areas for total loss mutual insurance for fishing vessels include some key fishing areas in Liaoning Province, Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province, Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and Hainan Province. The pilot area for fishermen’s personal safety mutual insurance is Daishan County, Zhejiang Province. In August 2009, Jiangsu Province officially launched fishery policy insurance. In order to effectively control business risks and ensure that the fishery policy insurance pilot work achieves the expected goals, the province explored a new insurance organization model - the provincial finance provides financial assistance to participating fisheries. On the basis of a 25% subsidy for insured fishermen in the insurance pilot, the annual premiums of fishery mutual aid insurance are "packaged" for reinsurance, that is, fishery mutual aid insurance catastrophe excess loss reinsurance.
4. Develop subsidies for the aquaculture industry.
(1) Aquaculture machinery subsidies. In 2008, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Finance pre-allocated 4 billion yuan in agricultural machinery purchase subsidies for 2008. Compared with 2007, while the scale of subsidy funds has expanded, the types of agricultural machinery purchase subsidies have also been expanded. Among them, three types of aquaculture machinery, including aerators, feeders and desilting machines, have been included in the subsidy catalog for the first time.
(2) Subsidies for improved aquatic products. The start of subsidy for improved aquatic species was in the 2006 "Action Implementation Plan for the Growth Mode of the Aquaculture Industry" which proposed to "carry out research on the operating mechanism of national-level original improved aquatic species farms and explore methods of subsidy for improved aquatic species." In 2007, the Ministry of Agriculture's Aquatic Healthy Breeding and Improved Aquatic Breed Subsidy Policy Research Team went to various places to conduct research and collect evidence. Subsidies for improved aquatic breeds have been launched in some places, but most of them involve freshwater fish with high economic value.
(3) Breeding base subsidies. Shandong Province is deeply promoting the standardized construction project of breeding ponds. It plans to renovate 3.5 million acres of old fish ponds and develop 1.5 million acres of new fish ponds in 5 to 8 years, forming a modern fishery production base of 5 million acres. In 2007 and 2008 alone, provincial financial investment reached more than 30 million yuan, renovating 120,000 acres of ponds and newly developing 20,000 acres of ponds.
5. Fishing loan interest discount. Loan discounts for the aquaculture industry are currently only carried out in some areas. Loan discounts are mainly provided for the reduction of reproduction capacity caused by disasters, technological transformation, new product development, fixed asset investment, etc. of enterprises that meet local development requirements. (1) Interest discount on loans for fishery disaster relief and production resumption. In February 2008, the finance department of Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province arranged a special fund of 2 million yuan in loan interest subsidy, which was distributed to various cities and districts according to the proportion of economic losses caused by the disaster. The governments of each city and district matched the special funds at a ratio of no less than 1:1 to support their jurisdictions. The aquaculture farmers (farms) that suffered serious losses due to the cold weather in early 2008 resumed production through disaster relief. The loan period is determined by the Rural Credit Cooperatives and the disaster-stricken aquaculture companies based on their needs and actual production cycles. The subsidy period for interest-free loans is one year. When the total interest subsidy for disaster-stricken aquaculture farmers is less than or equal to the total interest subsidy funds arranged by the two levels of government, a full interest discount will be implemented; when the total interest subsidy for disaster-stricken aquaculture households is greater than the total interest subsidy funds arranged by the two levels of government, a partial interest discount will be implemented proportionally. In October 2008, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province issued a work plan for subsidized loans for fishery production resumption to support fishery disaster relief and production resumption after being hit hard by Typhoon Hagupit. The city-level finance department has arranged a special subsidy fund of 15 million yuan, which is earmarked for the restoration of production of disaster-stricken households in the jurisdiction, especially "all households that have collapsed", large breeding households affected by the disaster (losses of more than 100,000 yuan), and owners of large ships (more than 60 horsepower) If the conditions are met, the city and county (city, district) finance department will provide a one-year loan discount at a ratio of 7:3. In July 2009, Qingliu County in Fujian Province issued subsidized loans to fish farmers affected by severe floods.
Guaranteed by the "Qingliu Xiyu" Development Association and relying on the "Hui Nong Card" of Qingliu Agricultural Bank of China, a joint loan of 3 to 4 households will be adopted. The county finance will pay the interest and provide a three-year credit loan of 50,000 yuan to each disaster-hit fish farming professional household. .
Discounted loans for technical transformation and new product development of fishery enterprises, discounted loans for the aquaculture industry, and discounted loans for leading aquatic enterprises. In 2009, Fujian Province, in accordance with relevant regulations, identified 77 companies as the provincial leading enterprises in aquatic product industrialization from 2009 to 2010. These enterprises will enjoy a loan interest subsidy of 100,000 yuan within two years. Since 2009, Honghu City, Hubei Province has implemented a combination of fiscal loan interest discounts and paid support for key investment projects that are in line with the development direction of the city's aquatic product processing industry. The first fixed asset investment exceeds 20 million yuan and is a loan-based construction project. The amount of loan is subsidized, and the interest discount period is 1 to 3 years. In 2006, Haikou City, Hainan Province issued the "Interim Measures for the Management of Interest Subsidy Funds for Financial Support Loans to Support Agriculture at the Level of Haikou City" to provide financial support to agriculture for individuals, enterprises and other organizations engaged in aquatic product cultivation, production, processing and circulation projects in the region. Loan discount funds. Aquaculture professionals with a breeding area of more than 10 acres can receive annual fiscal subsidy funds for agricultural loans of no more than 500,000 yuan. Enterprises and other organizations with a breeding area of more than 50 acres can receive annual subsidy funds for fiscal agricultural loans of no more than 500,000 yuan. 1 million yuan, the interest discount period is 1 to 3 years.
6. Tax benefits. In order to support the introduction and promotion of improved species, strengthen the protection of species resources, and develop high-quality, high-yielding and efficient fisheries, my country will exempt imported fish species (fry) used for cultivation, breeding, scientific research and experiments during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period. VAT. In order to reduce the heavy losses caused to the aquaculture industry by low-temperature rain, snow and freezing disasters in the South in 2008, the tax exemption plan for "other fry and their eggs" was increased by 40 million fish (grains) in 2008.
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