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National Forum of Major Grain-Producing Counties: Let grain farmers benefit and let major producing areas not lose out
Among the 800 major grain-producing counties that account for nearly three-quarters of the country's total grain output, more than 100 are national-level poverty-stricken counties, with 36 million poor people. This shows that the phenomenon of "grain-finance inversion" between China's grain output and county-level fiscal capacity is already very obvious, and may bring hidden dangers to food security.
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Internet Plus Injects New Momentum into Leapfrog Agricultural Development
At present, "Internet Plus" has risen to a national strategy, and "Internet Plus" has become a new growth point for development; it is a priority supported by central and local policies, and also the focus of investment. In promoting mass entrepreneurship and mass innovation, "Internet Plus" shows even more vitality.
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Space breeding brings business opportunities to China's organic selenium-enriched agriculture
According to news from the working meeting of the China Organic Selenium Alliance, starting in January 2016, the China Aerospace Department will convert part of China's military high-tech products to civilian use, meaning the state will support the establishment of several aerospace high-tech incubation civilian enterprises, especially science and technology enterprises in the agricultural field.
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Agricultural insurance should become an important guarantee for targeted poverty alleviation
Recently, the China Insurance Regulatory Commission held a meeting to implement the spirit of the Central Poverty Alleviation Work Conference, designating agricultural insurance as one of the main directions for the insurance industry in the battle against poverty. Because agricultural production faces a high disaster risk coefficient, agricultural production and operation carry great risks, and for farming households in poor areas, a sudden natural disaster can push them back to the brink of poverty.
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Wang Yang stresses deepening the reform of the agricultural reclamation system and mechanism and developing and strengthening the agricultural reclamation undertaking
Wang Yang stresses at the national teleconference on agricultural reclamation reform and development: deepen the reform of systems and mechanisms and develop and strengthen the agricultural reclamation undertaking. On December 14, the national teleconference on agricultural reclamation reform and development was held in Beijing, and Vice Premier of the State Council Wang Yang attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Xinhua News Agency reporter
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Mushroom industry plots a new path for brand upgrading
For a long time, scale and output have been the central themes of the development of China's edible fungi industry, but at the "9th China Mushroom Festival," brand became a hot topic and began to lead a new direction of development. Edible fungi are rich in nutrients and delicious in taste, and are known as "21st-century health food
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How high is the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? The Ministry of Agriculture releases data for the first time
On December 2, the Ministry of Agriculture released data on the utilization rates of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the first time: in 2015, the fertilizer utilization rate for China's three major grain crops - rice, corn and wheat - was 35.2%, 2.2 percentage points higher than in 2013; the pesticide utilization rate was 36.6%, 1.6 percentage points higher than in 2013. This
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Breeding work for niche crops should not be neglected
How long does it take to breed a new crop variety? Older-generation breeders often tell me: ten years to breed one variety. This is no exaggeration. Even with off-season propagation in the south to add generations, traditional biological breeding techniques still require breeders to spend eight to ten years to select and breed a satisfactory
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China's wheat breeding for high quality, high yield and water saving needs to be strengthened
At present, China's high-quality and high-yield, water-saving wheat varieties still cannot well meet production demand. Liu Xu, academician and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, expressed this view at the 7th National Wheat Genetics and Breeding Academic Symposium recently held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Liu Xu believes that in recent
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Vegetable brand building becomes the pressing task for the world's largest vegetable-producing country
On December 7, with the support of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the First China Vegetable Brand Conference, jointly hosted by the China Vegetable Circulation Association and the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and co-organized by the Guangxi Agricultural Products Circulation Association, was held in Nanning. The conference lasted
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