Accelerate the promotion of pilot production and maturation, promote the high-quality development of agricultural machinery and equipment, and hold a field meeting in Dazhou, Sichuan.

The Agricultural Mechanization Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Equipment Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a on-site meeting in Dazhou, Sichuan on September 25 to speed up the promotion of field trials and commercialization of agricultural machinery and equipment for high-quality development. The meeting discussed and deployed the work of field trial validation and commercialization of agricultural machinery and equipment, and emphasized the need to accelerate the high-quality development of agricultural machinery and equipment. The meeting emphasized that localities should adhere to the promotion of research and development through utilization, manufacturing through utilization, and transformation through utilization, increase organization and mobilization efforts, integrate and expand resources to create a good industry ecosystem for accelerating the field trial and commercialization of agricultural machinery. It is necessary to adhere to the research and development orientation of industrial application, focus on solving practical problems in agricultural production, accelerate the transformation of innovative achievements in agricultural machinery research and development; highlight the leading role of enterprises in field trials and commercialization, enhance the public service capabilities of enterprises in field trials and commercialization, and support the establishment of research, production, and application consortiums; create large-scale application scenarios, increase the deployment of prototypes and the area of trial verification; adhere to work promotion, give full play to the important role of market-oriented agricultural machinery promotion and application entities, and actively promote the participation of agricultural machinery promotion organizations at all levels in the entire process of field trials and commercialization. The meeting demanded that localities conscientiously implement the relevant work deployment to promote the high-quality development of agricultural machinery and equipment, strengthen organization and coordination, make every effort to promote breakthroughs in key product development, accelerate the improvement of independent innovation capabilities, consolidate the foundation of industrial development, accelerate the promotion and application of research results, and ensure the high-quality completion of all tasks related to the development of agricultural machinery and equipment.