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No-till farming yields are low, and the conservation strategy faces a crisis
Compared with conventional tillage systems, no-till often leads to lower output. However, no-till has still shown yield gains in dry regions. No-till farming, a key strategy based on conservation agriculture, can prevent conventional tillage from damaging the soil, yet it may not offer hope for boosting crop yields in most parts of the world.
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Policy-based purchasing and storage becomes the main channel for grain market procurement
In the face of the severe situation of inverted grain prices on the market, in 2014 the state continued to implement the minimum purchase price and temporary purchasing and storage policies for major grain varieties. Sinograin, together with relevant local departments, gave full play to its role as the main force, and over the year organized and completed nearly 1.
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Risks in the Use of Organic Fertilizer and Their Solutions
Preface Amid widespread concerns over food safety, with the rise of organic farming and ecological agriculture, organic farms and ecological farms have been springing up like bamboo shoots after rain all across the country. Many people have chosen to grow their own vegetables and grains, and many investment institutions have also begun to make major
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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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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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Seed companies face a new round of supervisory inspections
In order to further strengthen supervision of the seed market, severely crack down on illegal acts such as variety mislabeling and infringement, and promoting unauthorized varieties, effectively protect farmers' interests and the lawful rights and interests of variety rights holders, and ensure the safety of seeds used in agricultural production, the Ministry of Agriculture began implementing the 2015 supervisory inspection action for crop seed enterprises.
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Chinese agriculture faces dual squeezes and dual constraints
The Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Rural Work Conference held not long ago made some new arrangements for deepening rural reform and accelerating the modernization of agriculture, and in particular put forward some new requirements for accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model. Today I am very pleased to be able to
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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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What obstacles do Chinese enterprises face in outbound agricultural investment, and how should they respond?
Since the state put forward the strategy of agriculture going global, Chinese enterprises have extensively carried out agricultural investment in Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia and other countries and regions, and have achieved considerable results. But on the whole, China's agriculture going global is still progressing relatively slowly, clearly lagging behind
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Corn starch industry enters consolidation period, industrial landscape faces reshaping
Corn starch industry enters consolidation period Since corn starch futures listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange on December 19, futures prices surged then fell back, basically mildly and rationally reflecting the current operating conditions of the corn starch spot market. Since September, along with the new
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