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Grain prices fall and large-scale grain growers can only break even - do farmers still want to grow grain?
Grain prices have fallen, but do farmers still want to grow grain? A survey from Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Large-scale grain growers can only break even, and enthusiasm for land transfer may be affected. On December 9, the Major Snow solar term had already passed, and northern Heilongjiang was freezing cold. A heavy snowfall from a few days earlier still lay thick in the fields, with stray bits of crop straw showing on top.
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Grain output may slump due to difficulties in selling grain and losses in growing it
From the start of the summer grain purchase season to the concentrated marketing of autumn grain, reporters conducting sustained follow-up interviews along several major producing provinces including Henan and Hubei found that, because of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests and the continuous one-way rise in the floor purchase price, the current grain circulation and procurement-storage links show many new trends: in some areas
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Can Potatoes Be Grown on Mars? NASA Will Conduct an Experiment
In the Hollywood film "Mission to Mars," the botanist played by leading man Matt Damon tries to grow potatoes on Mars, and this approach may soon become reality. According to a December 23 report by Hong Kong, China's Wen Wei Po, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with Peru's International Potato Center (CIP), will
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Grain farmers, rest assured: growing grain will never leave you worse off
We must do everything possible to transform the mode of agricultural development, raise the overall grain production capacity, and protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices. Agricultural monitoring shows that domestic grain prices have been basically stable,
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Ding Xilu: Farmers have prospects in growing grain, and only then can grain production have good momentum
Core viewpoint: Ding Xilu, a netizen of China Economic Net, believes that these concrete measures not only protect farmers' grain-growing interests from being harmed and prevent their enthusiasm from declining, but also help safeguard national food security. Only by truly implementing them in accordance with national policies and putting all preferential agricultural policies into practice can farmers be helped to increase their incomes.
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For some farmers, grain-growing income is falling. How can grain sell well?
① At the drying yard of the Qixin Modern Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Jiangqiao Township, Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, more than 800 mu of freshly harvested corn is piled on the drying yard. The corn is currently hard to thresh, and with prices low, the cooperative plans to wait a while before looking into selling the corn. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Jianwei
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Measures decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 11, at which measures were decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes, so as to safeguard food security and farmers' interests. The meeting noted that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and another bumper harvest has been achieved this year, which has strongly supported economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but problems also exist such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. As it is now the time for autumn harvest and winter planting, multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests and their enthusiasm for growing grain. First, we must do a good job in purchasing autumn grain, increase investment in the construction of storage facilities, speed up the progress of grain depots under construction and those being repaired or renovated, additionally increase the plan for trans-provincial depot transfers as needed, increase the transport of grain from the north to the south, promptly introduce policies to encourage processing enterprises to enter the market to buy grain, strictly investigate "IOUs" and the practice of depressing grades and prices, and prevent difficulties in selling grain. Second, we must steadily digest existing inventories and reclassify eligible temporary stored corn as one-time state reserves. We must strengthen grain storage management to ensure the safety of stored grain. Third, we must do a good job in winter and spring agricultural production, speed up water conservancy construction such as irrigation and drainage facilities, and strengthen the supply guarantee of agricultural means of production. We must increase investment in the construction of high-standard farmland, with priority tilted toward main producing areas. Fourth, we must reform the mechanisms for grain price formation and purchase and storage, improve the subsidy policies for corn and soybeans, and continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy next year for staple grain varieties such as wheat and rice. Fifth, we must promote the conversion of sloping land in the south back to forest, advance fallow land and corn-soybean rotation, expand the pilot scope of "changing grain to feed," and promote the adjustment of the planting structure.
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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High-Yield Creation Lets Smallholder Grain Growers Join Forces into a Fist
On the afternoon of September 22, in the stretch of rice paddies in Chunhua Mountain Village, Chunhua Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, Wang Guisan, head of the Wawulong group, and farmers managing irrigation were checking the water-saturation of the rice. The seedlings were already knee-high and it was exactly the grain-filling stage, so Wang Guisan was especially attentive.
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Renting Land in the Countryside to Grow Vegetables Becomes a New Urban Trend
In Hongguang Village, Sancha Town, Zunyi County, some farmland that was at risk of being left fallow was transferred by the government and then divided into small plots to rent to city people for growing vegetables. According to reports, this hands-on experience project is quite popular and has also boosted rural tourism. Ever since the "Happy Farm"
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