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China's Food Security Faces Five Historic Challenges, How to Respond?
Food security is a very fundamental issue for China. Over the past decade, our country's grain output has increased continuously, and the self-sufficiency rate of cereals is close to 98%, achieving hard-won results. But at the same time, we must also recognize that our country's food security faces many complex and profound problems, many of which are new problems and new challenges arising along with economic development, requiring our careful study.
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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Lower listing threshold for agricultural enterprises, but challenges remain
In 2008, when the author was studying agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery companies, an expert on agricultural issues told the author: the performance of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery companies was poor, they mainly relied on side businesses for support, and a large part of their profits came from government subsidies. He believed that a considerable number of them had fraudulent listings, and after listing they would raise a sum of money and then decide what to do next, either diversify, or simply sell the shell and walk away.
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A Detailed Explanation of the 7 Major Challenges Facing the Development of Animal Husbandry
At the recently held Third Session of the Sixth Council of the China Animal Agriculture Association, Wang Zongli, Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Ministry of Agriculture, delivered a report on the review and outlook of China's animal husbandry development in 2014. Wang Zongli pointed out that China's animal husbandry is currently at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading.
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Scientific Grain Storage Can Eliminate "Ground-Piled Grain," but Promotion Still Faces Challenges
Traditional grain storage methods run into trouble, and grain depot purchasing progress slows down. This year there is a lot of moldy grain, and no one will take it anywhere, which makes ordinary people very anxious. Not long ago, at the Taojiatun Grain Depot of Jinyu Grain Purchasing and Storage Co., Ltd. in Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province, reporters met Li Wu, a farmer broker from Sanhe Street, Shuangyang District, Changchun City, who had just brought in several truckloads of corn.
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Challenges and Opportunities Coexist under the New Dynamics of Rural Development
Editor's note: After more than 30 years of reform and opening up, China's rural development has achieved remarkable results. The urban-rural relationship has improved significantly, the total output of agricultural products has increased severalfold, a large rural population has moved to cities, and farmers' incomes have grown markedly. But economic development is always accompanied by problems that need to be solved continuously.
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Grain-price conversion faces challenges: can land transfer achieve win-win outcomes for all parties?
In rural land transfer, the "grain-price conversion" model is generally adopted, whereby after villagers transfer their land, the land rent is calculated at the market price equivalent of a certain number of jin of rice per mu. A reporter's frontline investigation in rural Sichuan found that some villagers are already dissatisfied with this model, and Sichuan has explored various forms of benefit-sharing linkages such as land equity participation, seasonal sharing, and reverse leasing and subcontracting, to solve the difficulty of sharing benefits between villagers and operating entities.
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How can the seven major challenges of the livestock industry be solved under the new normal?
At the third session of the sixth board of directors meeting of the China Animal Agriculture Association held not long ago, Wang Zongli, deputy director of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Ministry of Agriculture, delivered a report reviewing China's livestock industry development in 2014 and its prospects. In his report he pointed out that China's livestock industry currently faces seven major challenges, namely supply and demand entering
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Analysis of the Opportunities and Challenges for Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers under the New Normal
At present, China's economic development has entered a new normal, and is shifting from high-speed growth to medium-to-high-speed growth. How to continue strengthening the foundational position of agriculture and promote the sustained increase of farmers' incomes against the backdrop of slowing economic growth is a major issue that must be resolved. Changes in social structure
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