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Upward momentum for agricultural products faces considerable resistance, and the supply-demand pattern remains unchanged
Along with the arrival of the peak demand season at the end of this year, global agricultural product prices have staged a rebound. However, because the global pattern of agricultural product supply exceeding demand remains unchanged, the resistance to upward price movement for agricultural products such as soybeans and corn is still considerable. From early October to now
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Food wasted on Chinese dining tables each year is equivalent to more than 200 million people's grain ration for a year
Wu Zidan, deputy director of the State Administration of Grain, recently revealed that China has a large amount of waste in grain production, circulation, processing, consumption and other links, and the loss and waste caused each year in grain storage, transportation and processing alone amounts to as much as 70 billion jin. Losses in the consumption link
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What development challenges do large-scale growers face after transitioning to family farm owners?
Editor's Note: Recently, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in a speech at the FAO that agricultural modernization should be advanced on the basis of family management. Promoting appropriately scaled operations and developing modern agriculture on the basis of family management will help better feed China and also contribute to world food
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How targeted poverty alleviation solves the problem of people competing to be recognized as poor households
Truly poor? Competing to be poor? The challenge of targeted poverty alleviation remains to be solved. In order to fulfill the national requirement of "truly alleviating poverty and helping the truly poor," Chongqing Municipality in recent years has provided targeted assistance to poor households through poverty identification, differentiated assistance, and dynamic management, improving the precision of poverty alleviation,
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The Role of Urban Leadership and Development Paths in Rural Reform
Land transfer is the third market gate between urban and rural areas. Comparatively speaking, the first two gates - the markets for agricultural sideline products and rural labor - both broke through from the rural side first, "encircling the cities from the countryside," and only then moved from countryside to city, forming the city's markets for agricultural produce and migrant workers.
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China is set to stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, with the volume expected to reach about 4
Industry analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year, the Chinese government may stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, because domestic demand is unlikely to recover quickly and a bumper harvest has left supply ample. China is the world's second-largest corn consumer; analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year
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How can family urbanization be advanced? Five suggestions for reference
China's urbanization differs from the family-led population migration of other market economy countries; instead, it is rural migrant workers working and integrating into cities. Although the large number of rural people who have entered cities are statistically counted as urban population, society "takes without giving" to the rural population, enterprises "use without supporting" the rural population, and migrant workers themselves "move without migrating," resulting in the "semi-urbanization" phenomenon in China's social development.
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Cotton price reform opens up space for futures market innovation, price fluctuations will become the norm
The most core effect released by the cotton target price reform pilot is that the market mechanism is gradually playing a decisive role in cotton price formation. Zhang Fan, chairman of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, said this at the recently held 2014 Zhengzhou Agricultural Products (Cotton) Futures Forum. He introduced
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Tieguanyin Autumn Tea Hits the Market, Mid-Range Tea Accounts for 70% of Sales
After National Day, autumn tea has fully hit the Guangzhou market. A New Express reporter visited several major tea markets in Guangzhou and learned that the current autumn tea market is dominated by mid-range Tieguanyin. Tea merchant Chen Chao, who specializes in tea from Anxi, Fujian, told the New Express reporter that compared with previous years, this year's autumn
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A bumper corn harvest is a foregone conclusion, but market risks warrant vigilance
Golden October is exactly the harvest season in Heilongjiang, and as far as the eye can see there are endless stretches of corn and soybeans. The vast black soil has upheld this region's status as China's largest grain-producing area through its bounty. A reporter recently followed an inspection team from Harbin to Suihua, through Bei'an, past Wudalianchi, as far north as Heihe, then back through Nenjiang, Nehe and Mo Banner in Inner Mongolia, and finally returning to Harbin via Qiqihar, Longjiang and Daqing, a journey of 2,500 kilometers. Through on-site surveys, visits to farming households, seed dealers and grain purchasers, and in-depth discussions with large-scale grain growers, planting associations, state-owned grain depots and processing enterprises, it was learned that the Northern Granary will again welcome a bumper year.
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