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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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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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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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What are the multiple difficulties faced by rural land confirmation and registration?
Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Opinions on the Pilot Work of Reforming the Rural Land Expropriation, the Entry of Collective Operational Construction Land into the Market, and the Homestead System," marking that China's rural land system reform is about to enter the pilot stage
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What else is missing for rural land to enter the market? The road to listing faces many difficulties
When carrying out the work of allowing collective operating construction land to enter the market, localities generally designate one county in a region as a pilot area, carry out pilot work for one to two years, and then summarize the experience before advancing. In this process, it is supported by a series of measures such as building the system for rural collective construction land to enter the market, carrying out the work of confirming, registering and issuing certificates for rural land rights, and building rural property rights trading (service) platforms, so as to promote the work.
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Agricultural production will continue to face import pressure this year
Affected by the combined factors of growing domestic demand, a widening price gap between domestic and international markets, and the international market being at a cyclical low, China's imports of agricultural products continued to grow at a high level in 2014. Looking at specific products, grain imports grew substantially, oilseed and vegetable oil imports remained generally stable, cotton and sugar imports decreased but still remained at a high level, beef and mutton imports grew slightly, milk powder imports increased substantially, and competitive export products grew relatively quickly overall.
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China's agricultural development still faces prominent structural problems
A relevant official from the Development Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture recently stated that while China's grain output has increased for many consecutive years, structural problems in China's agricultural development remain prominent in areas such as quantity and quality, total volume and structure, cost and benefit, and production and environment. The first is resources
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Integration of agriculture with secondary and tertiary industries faces new challenges and needs new solutions
When people mention agriculture, the first thing they think of is the process from planting to harvest. In Funing County, Hebei Province, this notion is being changed. Located in Houjie Village, Qiangezhuang Management District, Funing County, the "Fine Wine Aroma" Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone is centered on high-end wine brewing, storage, tasting and sightseeing
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2015: The Feed Industry Faces Three Major Battles
The past two years can be described as a turning point for the feed industry, having gone through overcapacity in the breeding industry, the survival of the fittest among enterprises, and drastic fluctuations in raw material prices. 2015 became a critical period for the transformation of the feed industry. While awakening the industry's recovery, feed enterprises also have many
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What challenges does new-type rural governance face? A full analysis of the solutions
In recent years, the rapid advancement of industrialization and urbanization, along with the continuous deepening of rural reform, has brought new vitality to rural development while also bringing many new situations to rural governance and triggering many new problems. New-type rural governance cannot follow the traditional
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