Policy Evolution,Development Dilemmas,and Countermeasures for Agricultural Water Conservation in the Context of Green Transformation
Strengthening the efficient and sustainable use of water resources is a necessary step to ensure national food security,enhance sustainable agricultural development,and promote the construction of a powerful agricultural country.It is also an important part of the in-depth implementation of Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought and the comprehensive conservation strategy.The new development stage emphasizes more on high-quality development,attaches great importance to the green transformation of produc-tion and lifestyle,and puts forward new and higher requirements for water resource utilization.However,agricultural water-saving still faces some development difficulties.These difficulties mainly come from conflicts between different policy objectives,inconsistent inter-ests of different stakeholders,poor connection between small farmers and efficient water-saving irrigation technologies,and low levels of promotion and application of smart irrigation technologies.Based on this,in order to implement the comprehensive conservation strat-egy and enhance the ability of water resource conservation and intensive utilization,we need to seek effective ways to overcome the di-lemma of agricultural water-saving development in a targeted manner.Specifically,it includes further improving agricultural water pri-cing policies,establishing and strengthening a water rights trading system with water users as the trading entity and under government macroeconomic regulation,including the headcount and maintenance expenses of irrigation areas in the fiscal budget and establishing corresponding incentive mechanisms,increasing investment in the final canal system,and actively exploring socialized irrigation service models tailored to local conditions.