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Comprehensive Market-Oriented Design for Corn Leads the Direction of Grain Price Reform
Reducing corn planting area, lowering the temporary state reserve purchase price for corn, steadily digesting existing stockpiles, and separating prices from subsidies - policies on corn have been introduced in succession over the past days. For this agricultural product, which currently has the most severe imbalance between production, supply and marketing, its price reform has become the top priority for both the government and the market.
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China's 2015 export value of Chinese herbal medicine accounted for 2% of the international market
The Second Congress of Chinese Medical Sciences, co-hosted by the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party Central Committee and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was held in Beijing recently. It was learned at the congress that in 2015, the proportion of China's Chinese herbal medicine exports fell to 2% of the total international market. The theme of the Second Congress of Chinese Medical Sciences was national essence
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Why the Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System Is Not Simply Dividing Everything Up
The reform of the rural collective property rights system means advancing classified reform according to the different types of resource assets, operating assets and public-welfare assets. However, this reform is by no means simply dividing everything up, by no means privatization, and still less is it about letting farmers eat the
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Ministry of Finance Supports Agricultural Industrialization, Aiming to Form a Hundred Distinctive Industrial Clusters in 3 Years
Agricultural industrialization will receive key financial support in the future. On November 17, the Ministry of Finance issued the "Guiding Opinions on Supporting Agriculture's Advantageous and Distinctive Industries through Comprehensive Agricultural Development to Promote Agricultural Industrialization" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). The "Opinions" proposed striving to use 3
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Technical Guidance on Field Management of Wheat Before Winter (2015)
At present, winter wheat sowing has basically ended, and most is at the emergence stage. Overall, soil moisture conditions are good in all areas this year, the sowing period is suitable, sowing is concentrated, and sowing quality is good. According to forecasts from the meteorological department, the strongest El Nino event in 17 years will occur this autumn and winter and will continue into
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Greater Support and Protection for Agriculture, with Innovation as the Key
The support and protection system is at the core of agricultural policy in a modern country, and providing necessary support and protection for agriculture is an objective requirement for developing modern agriculture. The "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") explicitly states that we must adhere to the basic policy of giving more, taking less, and loosening control, focus on ensuring the supply of major agricultural products, promoting farmers' income growth, and achieving sustainable agricultural development, and accelerate the formation of an agricultural support and protection system that is comprehensive in coverage, clearly targeted, focused on key areas, supported by matching measures, and simple to operate.
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How can agricultural informatization bridge the "last centimeter"?
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice, planning to spend about 3 years training farmers in mobile phone application skills and informatization capabilities, to enhance farmers' ability to use modern information technology, especially the ability to access the internet via mobile phones. Teaching farmers to use mobile phones to go online, though a small matter
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How can rural reform be deepened? Start with the property rights system
In the current critical period and important juncture of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the countryside, as the weakest link in the process of achieving moderate prosperity, has boarded the "Reform Express" and embarked on a journey of deepening reform advanced in a systematic, holistic and coordinated manner. In the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform" issued not long ago
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Agricultural insurance gets a comprehensive upgrade, and the benefits for farmers are worth looking forward to
Recently, the CIRC announced that it will comprehensively upgrade agricultural insurance products, with major disasters such as droughts and earthquakes included in insurance coverage for the first time. It is understood that this comprehensive upgrade of agricultural insurance products involves 15 categories of crops and 6 categories of livestock and aquaculture varieties, totaling 738 agricultural insurance products.
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Modern agriculture cannot develop without financial service innovation
"For a long time, due to factors such as high risk and long benefit cycles, the difficulty and high cost of financing for agriculture, rural areas and farmers has become a commonplace problem. Constrained by this, it is difficult to expand the scale of agriculture and to renew equipment and technology, which seriously restricts the process of our country's agricultural modernization."
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