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Where exactly does the crux of farmers' difficulty in getting loans lie?
The difficulty farmers face in obtaining loans has a long history; it is an old problem. To be fair, the fact that this problem remains unresolved today is not due to government inaction; on the contrary, the government has taken great pains. So is it that banks are prejudiced against farmers? Of course not. Setting aside policy banks, commercial
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How Exactly Was the GM Consensus Formed
Building consensus around GM technology is inseparable from scientific thinking, and even more so from social thinking. Recently, the Central Document No. 1 proposed strengthening research, safety management and science popularization of agricultural genetically modified organisms. Although this is the sixth time in the past 9 years that the Central Document No. 1 has mentioned
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What exactly does crop yield mean?
What is crop yield? This seemingly simple question has had different understandings and connotations in different eras. Over the long course of agricultural production practice, breeders' and farmers' understanding of yield, from experimental plots to large fields, from small environments to large environments
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What exactly is the essence of China's food security issue?
Eleven consecutive years of grain increases is a very great achievement, but it should also be noted that the increase in grain output is the result of internal structural adjustment of grain over all these years. Last year our imports exceeded 70 million tons, and 60% of the world's soybean market was imported into China
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What exactly makes the senior professional farmer certification so advanced?
Shaanxi is a pilot province advancing new professional farmer training on a whole-province basis, and last year it confirmed 84 senior professional farmers. That looks like fewer than 100, a bit on the low side, but in reality the standard is very hard to meet. What counts as senior? There are two hard requirements: first, an agricultural college diploma
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The nursery stock business playbook: where exactly do the profits come from, and where do you win?
This year Xu Yaopeng made money. While others worry about how to sell their nursery stock, he worries that he doesn't have enough to sell! Zhang Jiachao, a veteran nursery stock broker in Dingzhou, Hebei, told a special correspondent for China Landscape Web that his old friend Xu Yaopeng has a real head for business, and that his deals reliably turn a profit. What
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What exactly does the new type of agricultural operation system mean?
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "build a new type of agricultural operation system that combines intensification, specialization, organization and socialization." Subsequently, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the No. 1 Central Documents of 2013, 2014 and 2015, among other central documents, all emphasized the need to accelerate
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What exactly lies behind the grain subsidies?
On August 9, an article on China Economic Net titled "Heilongjiang Grain Subsidy Chaos Draws Questions, Over a Thousand Rice Mills Forced to Suspend Production" reported on the implementation of the administrative measures for subsidies to rice processing and corn deep-processing enterprises in Heilongjiang Province that competitively purchase and process policy-oriented grain. After
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What exactly is agricultural-input e-commerce? This article explains it
When an industry enters a deadlock, disruptive forces always emerge. The reason agricultural-input e-commerce has sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain this year ultimately lies in the fact that it has touched the industry's pain points. Agricultural-input enterprises getting involved in e-commerce is not hype, bandwagon-jumping or blind action. Unlike what many people imagine,
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How exactly does the sixth industry add value to agriculture?
How is the 1+2+3 addition done? Shifting from production-oriented to consumption-oriented, bringing the industrial chain and value chain into agriculture. How much benefit can one duck bring? In the eyes of Zhang Hongwei, a farmer in Luoshe Village, Nanchang County, a duck weighs about 6.5 jin when ready for market and can sell for 25-26 yuan. But at Jiangxi Huangshang
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