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How to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing income
The State Council executive meeting held on the 11th pointed out that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and achieved another bumper harvest this year, strongly supporting economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but there are also problems such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. Multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests
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How can farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? Measures suggested
Selling for less than 1.70 yuan per kg, and still hard to sell - what is to be done! Speaking of corn yields and prices, farmer Yan Shanming of Shenwan Village, Lengji Town, Gucheng County, Hubei Province, said to this writer with knitted brows, higher output but hardly higher income makes one feel bitter. Yan Shanming, now in his fifties
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Why are cotton farmers abandoning cotton? Some plots have been converted to growing trees
Right now is precisely the season for raising cotton seedlings, but, affected by the decline in cotton purchase prices, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting cotton in some of the main cotton-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has generally declined, quite a few cotton fields have been converted to other crops or left fallow, and in some fields trees have even been planted.
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Domestic Cotton Prices Enter a Low-Price Era as Cotton Farmers Abandon Cotton Growing
Right now is the season for raising cotton seedlings, but affected by the decline in cotton purchase prices, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting cotton in some major cotton-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has generally declined. Many cotton fields have been converted to other crops or left fallow, and some fields have even been planted with trees.
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Who is growing the grain, and how is it grown?
Editor's note: The whole year's work depends on a good start in spring. Yet how many people understand the story behind the busy spring plowing and grain production? This is a reality that cannot be ignored: agricultural production costs are rising, and the prices of major agricultural products have hit the ceiling. Under this "double squeeze," who will farm the land?
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Don't Let Excessive Land Transfer Fees Undermine the Enthusiasm for Growing Grain
Editor's note: As the state encourages and supports the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale operators, family farms, and farmer cooperatives to develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, land transfer is in full swing across the country. However, rising transfer fees are continuously shrinking the profit margins of large grain-growing operators and other new types of business entities. While feeling the pressure, some have already been forced to give up growing grain and switch to other more profitable cash crops. How can the reasonable returns of these new types of grain-growing business entities be ensured? How can their enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? These questions are worth pondering.
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How to deal with cadmium pollution in rice-growing areas in southern China? National scientific and technological teams join forces for consultation
The issue of heavy metal pollution in agricultural products concerns the safety of the people's food, and has become a focus of attention for the whole of society. On March 29, the launch meeting of the Innovation Action for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Heavy Metal Pollution in Rice in Southern China was held in Hunan, led and organized by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with the nation's most
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What Are Grain-Growing Farmers Thinking? Growing Grain on Over a Hundred Mu Brings Considerable Returns
Opening Column Note: In order to further consolidate the achievements of the Party's mass line education and practice campaign, carry forward the fine style of the agricultural departments in working hard, serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and being honest and efficient, the Ministry of Agriculture recently organized the "Hundred Townships, Ten Thousand Households Survey" for the fifth consecutive year, sending
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Increase subsidies for tea farmers growing tea
The tea industry is an industry that enriches the people, integrating ecological functions, economic functions, cultural functions, social functions, and health-and-character-cultivation functions in one. According to statistics, among China's 1.3 billion population, the number of people engaged in the tea industry has reached more than 80 million, accounting for 6% of the total population. National People's Congress deputy
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Farm Transformed into a Modern Agricultural Factory: Who Is Actually Growing the Vegetables?
Who Is Growing the Vegetables In plain terms, a plant factory is factory-style plant production, growing crops the way products are mass-produced in a factory, Wang Haibo, vice president of the Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, told the Economic Daily reporter. Plant factories are characterized by standardized growing procedures, uninterrupted growing time, and unrestricted growing seasons.
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