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On October 9, 2014, the "National Wholesale Price Index for Agricultural Products" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 9 the Wholesale Price Index for Basket Products was 204.46, up 0.05 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork at national agricultural products wholesale markets was 19.76 yuan/kg (the pork wholesale price index was 173.18), up from yesterday
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This year's wheat purchases hit a record high for the same period in history
This year's minimum purchase price policy for wheat ends at the end of September. The latest statistics from the National Food Administration show that as of now, various grain enterprises in 11 major wheat-producing areas including Henan and Shandong have purchased a total of 73.63 million tons of newly produced wheat, an increase of 19.73 million tons year-on-year, setting the highest level for the same period in history.
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Full efforts to secure winter wheat sown area, laying a solid foundation for next year's summer grain harvest
Cold Dew has passed, and autumn harvest and autumn sowing are in full swing. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop situation scheduling, as of October 8, winter wheat has completed 12% of the plan, 4.6 percentage points slower than the same period last year. Area is the foundation of yield, quality is the guarantee of per-unit yield, and the key is to accelerate sowing progress, expand the suitable sowing area, and improve sowing quality, so as to ensure full emergence in one sowing and safe overwintering of strong seedlings, and thus gain the initiative for next year's summer grain harvest.
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New mechanism for saving grain and reducing losses to be established, China strives to reduce grain loss and waste
On the occasion of the upcoming 34th World Food Day and the 24th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week, the State Administration of Grain, at a press briefing held jointly with the Ministry of Agriculture and other departments, stated that China will vigorously promote the establishment of a new mechanism for saving grain and reducing losses featuring government leadership, demand-driven orientation, participation of all citizens, and coordinated social
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Egg and pork prices fall for the first time, a lower CPI increase in September becomes the consensus
As egg prices and pork prices, which have an important impact on household consumption, saw their first decline after consecutive rises, a lower CPI increase in September has also become the consensus in the industry. On October 15, the National Bureau of Statistics will release the September CPI and PPI figures. China
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Grasslands in northern China begin to enter the withering period, and forage grass gradually turns yellow
The Grassland Supervision Center of the Ministry of Agriculture adopted methods of satellite remote sensing, ground observation and analysis combined with meteorological data to monitor and analyze the withering status of forage grass in the grasslands of northern China. The results show that as of September 20, about 60% of the grasslands in northern China had already withered. I
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New breakthrough in super rice adds further guarantee for China's food security
On October 10, the Ministry of Agriculture organized experts to measure the yield of the fourth-phase China super rice project targeting 1000 kg per mu, led by Academician Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice. The results showed that the per-mu yield of the fourth-phase super rice in a 100-mu plot in Xupu County, Hunan Province, exceeded 1000 kg, setting
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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland launched with central government financial support
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland" (hereinafter referred to as the "Overall Plan") approved by the State Council, recently the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, together with the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant departments, issued the 2014 annual task of returning farmland to forest and grassland of 5 million mu to ten provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Shanxi and Hubei, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Of this, 4.83 million mu was for returning farmland to forest and 170,000 mu was for returning farmland to grassland.
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What are the three key elements for postal services serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers?
As of now, there are 42,000 postal service outlets in rural areas nationwide, 140,000 business and delivery personnel, and more than 240,000 outlets related to postal logistics serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers, covering 86% of the country's counties and cities and more than one-third of administrative villages, gradually forming a system that includes headquarters, provincial
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The biggest potential for increasing farmers' income lies in institutional fairness
In 2013, nationwide farmers' income growth achieved a "tenth consecutive year of rapid growth," taking another solid step toward accomplishing the goal of doubling income set by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. But the problem of an excessively large urban-rural income gap has still not been reversed, the problem of income imbalance within rural areas is becoming increasingly prominent, and farmers'
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