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City residents go to the countryside for spring plowing: how can happy farms achieve a win-win for both urban and rural areas?
The online version of Happy Farm was once all the rage, and now a real-life version of Happy Farm is quietly emerging on the outskirts of Beijing. As city residents yearn to return to rural life, many people on the Beijing outskirts have spotted this market and are rolling out leisure agriculture projects that let city dwellers go to the countryside and cultivate a "one-fen plot." However, the real
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The road for agricultural products sold online is getting wider and wider
Right now it is the strawberry marketing season, and looking at the multifunctional sensors in the greenhouse, Gu Jing, chairman of the Shengbao Farmers' Cooperative in Jinghai, Tianjin, was very satisfied: "Vegetable greenhouses require the most labor. After the Internet of Things equipment was installed, labor costs can be saved by 600,000 yuan a year. Previously one person
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Capital goes to the countryside: strong enough to grab land, but not capable of farming it
Land lessees unilaterally break contracts or even abscond, land rent is hard to collect, and returned land either has lost its boundaries or has seriously damaged motor-pumps and pipes, or even misses the farming season and is left abandoned. In early April, a China Youth Daily reporter in Baixiang and Wei County of Xingtai City, Hebei Province
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Information-Guided Agricultural Development Enters a New Stage
At the 2015 China Agricultural Outlook Conference, the Market Early Warning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture officially released the "China Agricultural Outlook Report (2015-2024)," which became a milestone in China's agricultural informatization construction, marking that relying on information to guide agricultural development has entered a new stage.
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The financial support system for contract farming urgently needs to be improved
Contract farming mainly takes the forms of agricultural product purchasing and selling, cooperation, and land leasing and subcontracting. Banking institutions have actively innovated credit products, effectively meeting the financial needs of developing contract farming. However, there are still some prominent contradictions between financial supply and demand, and further
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Ministry of Agriculture forecasts China's grain output to grow 0.6% annually
Rice can achieve self-sufficiency; imports basically remain stable. The report notes that rice is currently China's second-largest grain crop. After China's rice output surpassed 200 million tons in 2011, it reached a record high of 206.43 million tons in 2014; domestic rice market prices were stable with slight increases.
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Capital flowing to the countryside generally does not grow grain: three major difficulties behind it
Regarding the phenomenon noted by China Youth Daily reporters during interviews in Xingtai, Handan and other places, that capital going to the countryside has the strength to compete for land but not the ability to farm it, He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and doctoral supervisor, said this situation is not uncommon nationwide.
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Deepening Land System Reform Is Key to Improving Urbanization Quality
Recently, domestic media have discussed the urbanization issue quite extensively. Some extreme opinions point out various defects in China's urbanization, seemingly with the intention of negating urbanization. In my view, in all things, "major principles govern minor principles." Although the quality of China's urbanization is not high, the achievements of urbanization are enormous.
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It Is Too Early for QR Codes to Guarantee Agricultural Product Quality and Safety
Recently, a news story caught my attention. After one year of using a QR code traceability system for the grain and oil products used by 800 schools in Huizhou, Guangdong, schools and parents alike have been giving it a "thumbs up," believing that this move has greatly "improved" the quality and safety level of grain and oil in school cafeterias.
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The agricultural information monitoring and early-warning system should be improved as soon as possible
Reported by our newspaper, journalist Qiao Jinliang: What is an agricultural outlook? What is the significance of releasing the production, consumption, price and trade trends of major agricultural products at the China Agricultural Outlook Conference? Xu Shiwei, Secretary-General of the Market Early-Warning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
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