最近农业部部长刘江在《农民日报》发表了《提高认识,扎实工作,把我国节水旱作农业提高到一个新水平》的专题文章。刘部长在文章的开头强调,根据国民经济和社会发展对农业的需求,要保证粮棉油等主要农产品稳定增长,实现本世纪末农业发展目标,农业的综合生产能力必须提高到一个新的水平。由于我国耕地逐年减少,而 Recently, Minister of Agriculture Liu Jiang published a feature article entitled “Raising Awareness, Doing Solid Work and Raising Water-saving and Dry-farming Agriculture in Our Country to a New Level” in “Peasant Daily”. At the beginning of the article, Minister Liu emphasized that according to the demand of agriculture for the national economy and social development, it is necessary to ensure the steady growth of staple agricultural products such as grain, cotton and oil and to achieve the goal of agricultural development at the end of this century. The comprehensive productive capacity of agriculture must be raised to a new level. As China’s arable land decreases year by year,