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Is Growing Grain Actually Profitable? Funding Woes Plague Grain Cooperatives
With grain in hand, the heart is at ease. As a new type of agricultural business entity, grain cooperatives have gradually become the dominant force in grain production. How are grain-growing cooperatives developing today? On December 5, a reporter traveled to Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province to find out. Funding Woes
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China plans to support prices of key grains to raise farmers' grain-growing income
According to the website of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission recently revised and improved the "Grain Law (Draft for Review)" that was publicly solicited for comments in February 2012, and is now publicly soliciting comments on the revised "Grain Law (Draft for Review)". The draft
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Winter storage vegetables growing well; China's vegetable production mode transition proceeding smoothly
Due to falling temperatures in Shandong, Liaoning, and the Beijing and Hebei areas, vegetables have gradually shifted from open-field to greenhouse cultivation. After the production mode transition and adjustment over the past period, the volume of vegetables arriving from outside southern regions such as Guangdong Province has decreased. In addition, some provinces and regions have successively entered
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Growing japonica rice with more confidence, where does our confidence come from?
"Old Li, for the one-season late japonica Yongyou 12, the 1000-grain weight is more than 23 grams, right?" At the "Hunan Province New Japonica Rice Variety Field Observation Meeting" held on October 14, Liu Nianxi, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Hunan Provincial Agricultural Commission and chief agronomist, casually pulled up a rice ear, weighed the grains in his hand, and shouted to
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China's rural e-commerce consumption keeps growing, and this year's market size will hit a new high
Alibaba Research Institute released the "Rural E-commerce Consumption Report (2014)" on the 13th, showing that China's rural e-commerce consumer market has continued to expand in recent years, and it is expected that the national rural online shopping market size will reach 180 billion yuan in 2014. The report said that in the sample survey, rural
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Why can growing good grain still earn you more money?
In early September in Xichong County, Sichuan, the weather was fine and sunny, and most rice farmers were already immersed in the busyness and joy of the harvest. That day, walking into Guanfeng Township in the county, we met the large-scale grain grower Huang Yongxi. The locals all knew that he alone had planted ten thousand mu of rice. He was seen striding confidently
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The cotton target price reform is about ensuring farmers earn a profit from growing cotton
In early 2014, the state launched a pilot target price subsidy program for cotton in Xinjiang and soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia. With the approval of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture, publicly announced the 2014 target prices for cotton and soybeans on April 5 and May 17 respectively.
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How do large-scale grain growers choose plant protection machinery?
I want to let the "Flying Tigers" take off and bring the "rice planthoppers" down. At the end of August, right at the critical juncture for preventing and controlling diseases and pests in late rice, at the Guobing Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Chuanxing Village, Paitou Township, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, large-scale grain grower Zhang Aiguo was busy overhauling plant protection aircraft. He gave his own agricultural aircraft plant protection team a resounding name:
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Modern agriculture hits a development bottleneck: grain growers receive 20 for growing grain, 160 for not growing it
Under the combined effect of multiple factors, China's main summer grain-producing areas achieved another bumper harvest this year, ushering in an 11th consecutive increase. Among them, new agricultural business entities represented by family farms, large grain-growing households, and grain production specialized cooperatives have become an important driving force behind the bumper grain harvest.
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Large grain growers must return subsidies to smallholders, leaving agricultural support policies stranded in confusion
In order to encourage the development of new types of agricultural business entities, in recent years the state and local governments have begun to provide them with fiscal subsidies. In Chongqing, subsidy standards are divided into two tiers according to operating scale: 160 yuan and 230 yuan per mu. But in grassroots practice, many smallholders have become "field bosses," and large grain growers have to "return" part of the subsidy money to them. In some districts and counties, large growers actually receive about 90 yuan per mu in subsidies, and in a few places even less than 10 yuan.
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