Recently, novel coronavirus pneumonia affected some countries to issue a ban on food exports. It is argued that if certain measures are not taken, the epidemic may affect the food security of some countries and regions.

       Will the epidemic really lead to global food security problems? In fact, it's not, and it hasn't appeared yet.

       "There is no food security problem, just market speculation." Wu Bingfang, a researcher from the Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told Xinhuanet in an exclusive interview that exporting countries hope to take advantage of the epidemic situation to push up food prices and seek more benefits; some exporting countries often use this method to lose trust with people and eventually lose the trust of users and turn to more reliable food suppliers.

       For more than 20 years, Wu Bingfang has led the scientific research team to continue to be engaged in remote sensing monitoring of agricultural conditions. He is an expert group of the annual report on remote sensing monitoring of the global ecological environment of the National Remote Sensing Center of the Ministry of science and technology, and has long been responsible for the preparation of the special report on the production situation of bulk grain and oil crops.

Lack of food, remote sensing monitoring data will not confuse people.

       According to the monitoring results provided by Wu Bingfang, in the past three years, the output of global grain bulk grain and oil crops has been at a historical high, and the grain supply has been stable. Since entering the epidemic period, the corn and soybeans available for export in the southern hemisphere have been less affected, and the corn and soybeans output of Brazil and Argentina, the major food producing countries, have increased year on year.

       The global food supply is guaranteed, and the impact of the epidemic on China is limited.

       According to Wu Bingfang, the monitoring shows that the impact of the epidemic on China's summer grain production is relatively small, and the overall situation of grain production is good. The impact of the epidemic is mainly concentrated in Hubei Province: the latest monitoring shows that by the middle of April, only the transplanting area of Upland Rice in Hubei Province has declined, while the total area of early rice preparation and transplanting in China has increased by about 2% compared with 2019; in the first ten days of April, the crops in the main summer grain production areas The growth is better than the average level of the past five years, but the growth of summer grain in central Hubei and Anhui is lower than the average level of the past five years.

Previously, the rumors of food shortage confused many people in China, and even some people began to hoard food. Today, the data tells us, "we have food at home. Hold on, don't panic!"

In fact, when there was a heated debate over whether there was enough food to eat, the central government made many authoritative voices and gave Chinese people a "reassurance".

       On April 4, the joint defense and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on food supply and security during the epidemic, which sent many important signals: China's grain ration is absolutely safe and guaranteed, and the per capita grain share continues to be higher than the world average. On April 8, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting and pointed out that "China's agriculture has a good harvest year after year, with abundant grain reserves, and is fully capable of ensuring the supply of grain and important agricultural products".

       Have a clear idea, not afraid of changes. China's food security is guaranteed, which comes from its strong monitoring capacity in terms of food security and production situation.

       Monitoring well is of far-reaching significance to a country. Wu Bingfang believes that monitoring can improve the transparency of the global food production situation and reduce or avoid fluctuations in food prices. In other words, if all countries can "know" their own food production, they will not worry about the so-called food security. Even if there is a shortage of food supply, monitoring can help relevant countries to formulate scientific and reasonable response strategies and deployment plans in advance.

       China is the largest producer, consumer and importer of food. The rations for 1.4 billion people can only be guaranteed by ourselves.

       Wu Bingfang suggested that we should adhere to "independent and independent monitoring and early warning" and not be misled by other information, which is the basis of strategic determination.

       To improve the level of food security monitoring, China relies on "black technology", the world's leading global agricultural monitoring system, not a slogan. The system gathers real-time multi-source and remote sensing big data, uses up to 32 indicators to evaluate the information of agricultural gas, agricultural information and crop production from global, intercontinental, national and even township level, and relies on the efficient processing capacity of cloud computing to ensure the timeliness of monitoring and prediction.

       China's one belt, one road, has been built in more than 160 countries and regions, Wu Bingfang said. For example, Mozambique has used the customized CropWatch cloud platform to realize the independent monitoring of food security early warning and the leap forward development of food security governance capacity.

       Source: xinhuanet.com