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Normalized grain production growth: innovating agricultural development methods is key
In recent years, Yongqiao District of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, as an important national grain production base, has strengthened its sense of overall interests, consciously shouldered the responsibility of safeguarding national food security, and, driven by the construction of the National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone and the National Comprehensive Rural Reform Pilot Zone, innovated modern agriculture
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Accelerating the Development of Livestock Insurance and Advancing the Building of Modern Animal Husbandry
On August 28, the Ministry of Agriculture and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly held in Chengdu, Sichuan, an experience-sharing meeting on insurance support for the development of animal husbandry, to jointly study and plan livestock insurance work. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen and Vice Chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission Chen Wenhui each delivered speeches on vigorously developing livestock insurance and
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Why Is the Development of Chinese Farmers' Cooperatives So Distinctive
A cooperative is a form of organization that exists within a certain organizational environment and possesses certain qualitative specifications; therefore, the distinctiveness of the development of Chinese farmers' cooperatives necessarily arises from the real constraints of the environment in which they operate. The first is the structural
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New types of agricultural business entities become the stars of agricultural development
Exquisitely packaged grains and cereals, nutrient-rich organic vegetables, and "giant" fruits and melons of all shapes... At the 2014 China Anhui (Hefei) Agricultural Industrialization Trade Fair currently being held at the Anhui International Convention and Exhibition Center, more than 1,000 exhibiting entities from within and outside the province brought more than 1,200 kinds of
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Development Demands in International Agricultural Trade Should Be Taken Seriously
Recently, the author noticed that due to the tough stance taken by India and other countries on the issue of agricultural subsidies, the only trade liberalization agreement reached since the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) stalled at the end of July. Some commentators believe that this move may deal a blow to the outside world's
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Hybrid rice development is stalled: how can it be saved?
Data show that in recent years the downward trend in hybrid rice varieties has been very pronounced. The number of varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 1 million mu rose from 46 in 2002 to a peak of 59 in 2004, then declined year by year to 29 in 2012; the number of varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 5 million mu fell from about 9 in the early period to 1 per year at present; since 2007, no variety with more than 10 million mu has appeared. The average annual promotion area of a single main hybrid rice variety fell sharply from 2.133 million mu in 1993 to 374,000 mu in 2012, a drop of 82.5%.
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Follow-up review of the implementation of the State Council's opinions on supporting leading enterprises
This website reports that on September 3, the Agricultural Industrialization Office of the Ministry of Agriculture held in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, a follow-up exchange activity on implementing the "Opinions of the State Council on Supporting the Development of Leading Enterprises in Agricultural Industrialization." Colleagues from the agricultural industrialization competent departments of all provinces (regions and municipalities)
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Agricultural insurance escorts the development of new-type agricultural business entities
It is undeniable that China's agricultural production has not yet completely escaped the predicament of relying on the weather, with abnormal weather occurring frequently and the impact of disasters expanding day by day. Under such circumstances, how to minimize the losses to individual farmers' interests while ensuring the smooth realization of the national strategy for food security is a major issue.
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Sustainable development of pastoral areas requires a long-term mechanism
From August 30 to September 3, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen conducted a survey in the Xinjiang autonomous region on the implementation of the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy and the transformation and development of the grassland livestock industry. He stressed that the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy is a major measure taken by the central government to promote the sound and rapid development of pastoral areas, and that all localities must adhere to the basic principle of "combining production and ecology organically, with ecology taking priority," firmly establish the concept that "protecting ecology means protecting productivity, and improving ecology means developing productivity," further establish and improve a long-term mechanism for grassland protection and construction, actively advance the transformation and upgrading of the grassland livestock industry, promote the sustainable development of pastoral areas, and achieve "greener grasslands, a stronger livestock industry, and wealthier herders."
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How Suburban Agriculture Can Catch the Fast Track of Industrial Development
Dazhou City in Sichuan is a populous and major agricultural city in eastern Sichuan. As Tongchuan District, the central urban area of Dazhou, how to let townships and even rural villages ride the fast track of urban development, achieve urban-rural coordination, and stride together into all-round moderate prosperity has become an important topic. Rural areas riding the urban
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