-
Selling Grain Is Hard, Stacked on Top of Debt-Financed Farming: China's Grain Subsidies Are Less Than One-Tenth of Europe's and America's
Economic Observer reporter Jiang Yunzhang: Wheat is falling, corn is falling too. This year's grain prices are truly baffling! A bumper grain harvest is normally a happy occasion, but Liang Yukui (pseudonym), a large-scale grain farmer in the Yunan area of Henan Province, cannot bring himself to feel glad at all. In previous years, in response to
-
Wheat, Corn and Other Grain Prices Are Falling: How Can the Plight of Grain Farming Be Solved?
The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently held a training session on the "two-deep, one-shallow" simplified cultivation technique for wheat in Matou Town, Dongming County. Photo by Cao Fengqin. Falling grain prices have once again dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. They have also had a negative impact on land transfers and large-scale operations, with signs even emerging of contractors withdrawing from leased land.
-
What are farmers' new needs? Let's hear what farming households have to say
College graduates who go to the countryside to serve as village officials generally have a fire burning inside, but at first they may not be clear about what they can do at the grassroots level, because we are neither civil servants nor rural cadres. In July 2009, I first heard the title "college student village official"
-
Grain Price Inversion Leads to Surge in Grain Imports: Farmers Cannot Sell the Grain They Grow
Grain Won't Sell, Grain Farmers Want to Cry but Have No Tears: Does China Have Too Much Grain? Author: Gao Yuanzhi, Zhou Mian, Wu Tao Source: Banyuetan Website Editor: Yuan Bixia Editor's Note: At present, China's grain production and grain market have some puzzling aspects: on the one hand, grain
-
How can hundreds of millions of farming households break out of land transfer and transition smoothly to large-scale farming?
The heart that had been hanging in midair finally settled into place. Dai Yasheng was very satisfied with the experts' on-site yield measurement results: on plots where joint ploughing and joint planting was carried out, this year's wheat yield per mu was above a thousand jin, which was a delightful surprise. The plot owner said this field had previously been leveled from a crab pond, and the subsoil was poor, so such a harvest was unexpected.
-
Ministry of Agriculture Actively and Steadily Advances the Grain-to-Forage Pilot to Develop Grass-Fed Livestock Farming
On September 1, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, calling for actively and steadily advancing the pilot work of converting grain crops to forage to develop grass-fed livestock farming, vigorously promoting the integration of farming and livestock raising, and enhancing the comprehensive benefits of crop cultivation and livestock breeding. To further advance agricultural structural adjustment, this year's Central Document No. 1
-
Elderly Agriculture: The Semi-Farming Model of Left-Behind Elderly in Rural Areas
Convenient mechanical tillage and farmland management are the intrinsic needs of elderly agriculture. At present, the vast majority of rural areas across the country have already formed a household livelihood model of "semi-work and semi-farming based on intergenerational division of labor." This household livelihood model is called the labor force reproduction model or family reproduction
-
How to farm on desert land? Agriculture in sandy areas is flourishing
Currently, China's agricultural production and development is subject to hard constraints such as the reduction of arable land resources and the limited carrying capacity of environmental resources. China's existing desertified area is 1.73 million mu, and there is great potential to expand agricultural production space in arid desert areas. However, the ecology of sandy areas is fragile, and it is necessary to find a balance between ecological environmental protection and agricultural development, and to develop farmland moderately on the premise of protecting the ecological environment.
-
Green agriculture does not mean returning to traditional farming
Driven by modern science and technology, China's agricultural output growth has outpaced population growth, successfully achieving the goal of "producing more." However, under the output-oriented development model, the long-term continuous increase in agricultural production has also come at a heavy cost to resources and the environment. Fertilizers,
-
Large-scale farming profits rely entirely on subsidies and rewards, with hidden traps
Does large-scale agriculture necessarily bring economies of scale? In many people's understanding, this is hardly even a question, but the facts are not so. While too small a planting scale certainly makes it hard to earn much profit, too large a planting scale may also yield false profits. So-called false profits
条件筛选