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The situation for geological disaster prevention and control remains severe, and vigilance must be strengthened this year
"Although last year's geological disaster situation was not serious, this year's prevention and control situation is not optimistic." A relevant official from the Ministry of Land and Resources said recently. It is understood that in 2014, the number of deaths and missing persons and direct economic losses caused by geological disasters in China decreased significantly year on year. Nationwide last
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Deepening rural land reform: guard against blind comparisons
Recently, the central government issued the "Opinions on the Pilot Work of Rural Land Expropriation, Entry of Collective Operating Construction Land into the Market, and Reform of the Homestead System," which has attracted widespread attention from all sectors. Jiang Daming, Minister of Land and Resources, pointed out that "the reform of the rural land system must
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Han Changfu stresses unswervingly accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model
At the Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that we must unswervingly accelerate the transformation of the agricultural development model, continue to consolidate the foundation for the stable development of agriculture, and stabilize the continuously improving situation in rural areas. At present, the environment for China's agricultural development is undergoing profound
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Seed companies face a new round of supervisory inspections
In order to further strengthen supervision of the seed market, severely crack down on illegal acts such as variety mislabeling and infringement, and promoting unauthorized varieties, effectively protect farmers' interests and the lawful rights and interests of variety rights holders, and ensure the safety of seeds used in agricultural production, the Ministry of Agriculture began implementing the 2015 supervisory inspection action for crop seed enterprises.
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Huimin policies must not be distorted or watered down: how does the Ministry of Agriculture implement its services for farmers?
On the evening of January 15, in the Ministry of Agriculture office building on the east side of Changhong Bridge on the East Third Ring Road in Beijing, lights were still on in quite a few offices, and many staff members were still busily working at computers and beside printers. With only about ten days left before the launch of the science and technology service cloud platform, everyone was busy
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Growing Grain Can Be Profitable Too: A Large-Scale Grain Farmer Shares His Tips for Boosting Income
Everyone says growing grain does not make money, but last year I made a net profit of five or six hundred yuan per mu! Taking stock of the harvest at year's end, Yu Jialong, the only national-level large-scale grain farmer in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province last year, was beaming with joy. Yu Jialong is 45 years old and lives in Nandatan Village, Gaodu Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. Growing grain
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A long-term mechanism for forest land protection and management urgently needs to be established
On January 9, the State Forestry Administration reported the results of the 2014 national forest land management inspection. The results showed that various types of illegal and irregular forest land occupation projects increased by 7.1% compared with 2013. Liu Dongsheng, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, said in response that forest land protection and management should not treat the symptoms rather than the root cause
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The road to making potatoes a staple grain is not smooth; no new subsidies for now
The proposal to make potatoes a staple grain is currently only a departmental opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture, and has not been elevated to the national level or become a joint initiative of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and other departments; many people have expressed confusion over the Ministry of Agriculture's hasty rewriting of the definition of staple grain. The road to making potatoes a staple grain
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Target Price Reform Helps Restructure and Transform the Cotton Industry
In 2014, China launched a pilot reform of the cotton target price in Xinjiang, and at the same time abolished the temporary cotton stockpiling policy nationwide. How is the pilot reform progressing? What results have been achieved? What room for improvement remains in actual practice? On these questions, the reporter interviewed
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Information technology for land transfer, building a trustworthy platform
Now when people talk about land transfer, one word describes it: hot! Authoritative data show that, as of the end of June 2014, nearly 1/3 of the country's contracted farmland operated by households had been transferred. According to information disclosed by a professional land transfer website, the area of land posted and the transaction volume in 2014, compared with 2012, had average annual growth rates of 178.4% and 155.0% respectively.
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