A critical review on self-supply bottom line and developmental road-map for oilseed products in China under the grand-food security strategy
Implementation of the novel grand-food security strategy based on the principles of all-encompass-ing approach to food is highly crucial for diversifying sources,increasing supply amount,improving nutritional quali-ty,enhancing market competitiveness,protecting eco-systems,ensuring self-coordination,promoting healthy con-sumption,and elevating comprehensive management of various foods in China under the New Era.Since the open-ing police starting in 1978,historical changes have occurred in production,trade and consumption of major agricul-tural products including the oilseeds,and food consumption and nutrition levels in the whole country have been sig-nificantly improved.However,the unbalanced production and consumption of certain agro-products have also led to serious problems such as an increase in chronic diseases,environmental pollution and risks within food supply chains,among which,the short domestic production and over-consumption of oilseeds and edible vegetable oils have been in a dilemma for more than ten years.Based on China's natural resources and social-economic circum-stances,the general road-map including enlarging production of rapeseed and peanut,promoting production of oth-er special minor oilseeds and intensifying healthy consumption should be well followed in order to ensure the supply of oilseed products.It is proposed to increase the domestic vegetable oil production up to 20 million tons in the next decade,which would be the basic supply bottom line for domestic consumption.Meanwhile,further efforts should be made on improving the quality,production efficiency and market competitiveness and promoting healthy consump-tion of oilseed products.