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Sea Cucumber Prices Hit Bottom and Rebound Sharply, Aquaculture Enters a Boom Cycle
Last week, the average price of sea cucumber at the Weihai aquatic products market in Shandong was 120 yuan per kg, up 9% week-on-week and up 20% since May. Industry insiders analyze that due to restricted high-end consumption over the past 3 years and high inventories, sea cucumber prices fell sharply and have recently dropped back to a 5-year low.
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Taking the implementation of the "two responsibilities" as the key lever to advance Party conduct and clean government building
Han Changfu at the Ministry of Agriculture meeting on implementing the "two responsibilities" for Party conduct and clean government stresses: taking the implementation of the two responsibilities as the key lever to push the building of Party conduct and clean government to a new level. This website news, on the afternoon of July 30, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting to advance the implementation of the "two responsibilities" for Party conduct and clean government
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Seeds must be carefully selected to bring out their vigor
Step 1: Improved seed processing. Seeds of superior varieties, high-quality seeds. Good children come from a good mother; good seed makes good grain. The 10 premium corn seeds that can sell for 80 yuan, as mentioned by Wang Jianhua, professor at the College of Agronomy and Biotechnology at China Agricultural University, proves this truth. This premium corn not only
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China's feed demand has already reached 2.5 times its grain demand for human consumption
In recent years, China's per capita grain ration dropped from 207.1 kg in 1986 to 148 kg in 2010, a decrease of 28.5%, but at the same time, per capita consumption of meat, eggs, milk and other foods has been climbing steadily. For more than 30 years, Ren Jizhou, a grassland science expert in China and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,
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Organic agriculture cannot rely on producers alone
In Jiangjiazhuang Village, Pingyi County, Shandong Province, Jiang Gaoming, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rented a 20-mu farm, growing corn, soybeans and wheat, and also raised more than 100 head of cattle. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and no agricultural film, additives or herbicides. After three years of cultivation,
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Agricultural input operators must put integrity first and learn to run their business with a conscience
In the news item "Shandong agricultural input spot checks in the first half of 2014: 19 brands of fertilizer failed": a list of 19 brands of substandard fertilizer was published, and the Shandong Provincial Administration for Industry and Commerce stated that for agricultural inputs that failed spot checks, local industry and commerce authorities had been arranged to immediately investigate and deal with the business units selling substandard agricultural inputs in accordance with the law, and to supervise operators within their jurisdictions to stop selling goods of the same trademark and the same specification and model as those on the substandard list.
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How to Advance Innovation in Rural Property Rights Financing Systems
The "Decision" adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee proposed granting farmers the right to mortgage and use as collateral their contracted management rights, and prudently and steadily advancing the mortgage and collateralization of farmers' housing property rights. The 2014 No. 1 Central Document made specific arrangements. The introduction of these two documents will surely
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How can farmers' professional cooperatives be brought to life?
In the height of summer, in Quyuan Town of Zigui County, the hometown of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, a scene of abundant harvest is unfolding: farm vehicles loaded with pigs, bamboo baskets on the rear racks of several motorcycles filled with free-range chickens about to be shipped to market, stretches of citrus, sweet
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Ministry of Agriculture Deploys Prevention and Control of Major Pests and Diseases of Autumn Grain Crops
August and September are an important period for the formation of autumn grain crop yields, and also a critical period for pest and disease prevention and control. On July 29, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national on-site meeting on the prevention and control of major pests and diseases of autumn grain crops in Shandong, proposing that this year's prevention and control of major pests and diseases of autumn grain crops should strive to keep the damage losses from major rice and corn pests and diseases
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How Do Land Policies Trigger Land Violations?
Our country is the strictest in the world in implementing a land management system, yet in real life, land violations still occur frequently in some places. Why? Over the past two years, the author visited a number of land violation cases in multiple locations and found that the main cause of land violations is that some local officials collude with relevant leaders of the land and resources departments, using various land policies as a pretext to deceive higher-level governments and farmers. Because these violators not only reap huge profits after the land violation but can also evade legal liability, and some even use this to advance their careers. This has led to a vicious cycle between land violations and political achievement "construction."
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