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Promising Prospects for Integrated Pesticide-Fertilizer and High-Efficiency Application Equipment
In recent years, with the large-scale migration of rural labor, rural labor costs have increased year by year. Pesticide-fertilizer products that reduce labor intensity, are convenient to apply, save labor and cut costs, along with high-efficiency application equipment, have become hot topics of interest for large-scale growers and agricultural input distributors. Not long ago, in Chang
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Branding, Smart Technology and High Efficiency in Modern Agriculture, as Seen at the Agricultural Trade Fair
Spring flowers and autumn fruit: autumn is the season of abundant harvests. Recently, the 12th China International Agricultural Trade Fair was held in Qingdao, Shandong Province, with novel, excellent and specialty agricultural products from all over the country gathered under one roof. What fresh goods are there at this year's agricultural trade fair? How
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Important breakthrough achieved in high-efficiency hybrid soybean breeding and seed production technology
A research group led by researcher Wei Baoguo of the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, after more than 30 years of unremitting efforts, has achieved an important breakthrough in high-efficiency hybrid soybean breeding and seed production technology, opening up broad prospects for the utilization of heterosis in soybeans in China and even the world. Led by the Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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Development Ideas for High-Efficiency Ecological Agriculture in China
It is projected that by 2050, the world population will increase to 9 billion, which will pose a huge challenge to global agricultural development. Whether enough food can be produced and whether food security can be guaranteed will be issues of common concern to people of all countries in the world. For decades, the Chinese people, relying on their own
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China's high-efficiency water-saving irrigation area will increase by more than 20 million mu this year
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 24 (Reporters Yu Wenjing, Chen Mengyang) - To consolidate the foundation of food security and make scientific use of precious water resources, China will speed up the construction of farmland water conservancy this year, adding more than 20 million mu of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation area. This was learned by the reporters on the 24th from the Ministry of Water Resources.
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Committee member Li Jian suggests accelerating the move toward modern agriculture, ecological agriculture and high-efficiency agriculture
China Economic Net, Beijing, March 14 (Report) - Today, Li Jian, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Institute of Technology, said while appearing on China Economic Net's "China Economic Online Interview Special Program - Focus on the 2015 Two Sessions" that China's agriculture currently needs to transform its mode of production, accelerate the transformation of agricultural production methods and the development of modern agricultural technology, and realize the transition to modern agriculture and ecological agriculture. He said that currently the<span id="stock_sz000061"><span class="keyword">agricultural products</span></span> prices have already hit a ceiling and are already considerably higher than agricultural product prices abroad, mainly because the output efficiency of agriculture still needs to be improved.
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Activating Modern Agricultural Concepts: Land Transfer Achieves High Efficiency
In recent years, riding the wave of land transfer, a large number of new-type agricultural business entities in our city have grown rapidly. However, after land is consolidated into scale, problems such as loose management, insufficient funds and inadequate investment in infrastructure remain the primary factors restricting agriculture from becoming bigger and stronger. For example
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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China's Integrated Oilseed-Grain Rotation Technology Achieves High Yield and High Efficiency
On May 29, reporters learned from the rapeseed-maize annual green high-yield and high-efficiency technology model demonstration on-site meeting held in Xiangyang, Hubei, that through major scientific research collaboration and major tackling of key problems, Chinese agricultural experts have created a new model of rapeseed-maize annual green high-yield and high-efficiency technology, successfully carrying out
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Fertilizer additives have broad development space and great prospects
Eco-friendly and high-efficiency chemical substances. Regarding fertilizer additives, the definition reviewed and published by the National Committee for Terms in Sciences and Technologies is: chemical substances used to improve fertilizer performance, promote fertilizer efficacy, decompose residual pesticides and nitrates, and improve the soil environment. They have
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