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Domestic Grain Prices Are High, Chinese Farmers Can Rent Land Overseas
Not long ago, Chen Zhangliang, Vice Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology and member of its Secretariat, gave an exclusive interview to Phoenix Net, discussing the opportunities, challenges and strategies for Chinese agriculture going global. Having served as president of China Agricultural University for 6 years and as vice chairman of Guangxi in charge of agriculture for 6 years, Chen Zhangliang not only
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Why Are Urea Prices So High in China?
In recent years, China's urea price has basically been the lowest in the world, especially last year. Under normal circumstances, China's urea FOB price per ton is 20~30 USD lower than the international price, sometimes even 50 USD lower. Moreover, many people have become accustomed to China's low urea prices, as if
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Soybean farmers hope for a higher soybean target price
According to a sample survey of 5 counties (cities) in Heilongjiang Province, the grain-planting intentions of surveyed households showed a "two increases and one decrease" trend, namely an increase in rice, an increase in corn, and a decrease in soybeans, with soybeans down 13.9% among surveyed households. The reasons include the following aspects: First, rice and corn still have an efficiency advantage.
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China's out-of-quota corn imports carry high risks
Although the widening price gap between domestic corn and the international market has made full-tariff corn imports more attractive, analysts point out that out-of-quota imports carry significant risks, mainly because domestic corn stocks are huge, and auctions of state-reserve corn could narrow the price gap between domestic and international markets.
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How Can Rural Community Development Highlight Countryside Characteristics
The "rural communities with countryside characteristics" referred to here are compared with urban communities. At present, the different communities in Chinese cities have formed along with the rapid development of China's social economy, and have obvious characteristics such as a large and concentrated population, strong government support, diverse residents' occupations, convenient community service facilities, a high degree of network informatization, and very little interpersonal interaction among residents.
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High risk of lodging in the late growth stage of wheat this year
This spring, the wheat green-up stage was generally threatened by drought, and during the standing-up to jointing stage, all localities actively carried out irrigation. In addition, around the jointing stage there was weather with excessive rainfall, higher temperatures and reduced sunlight, causing the basal stems of wheat after jointing, especially the first
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How can the construction of the rural financial system move toward high-quality modernization?
2015 is a pivotal year for China's deepening of financial reform. In order to thoroughly explore the situation and tasks facing China's rural financial development, on April 26, the China Rural Financial Development Forum, hosted by the Finance Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council and co-organized by units including Postal Savings Bank of China and the China Financial Education Development Foundation, was held in Beijing, with the theme "New Tasks and New Development of China's Rural Finance under the New Normal." On that day, the forum also released the "China Rural Financial Development Report 2014."
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Passing Off Old Grain as New Highlights the Predicament of Grain Reserve Supervision
Where there is delicious lamp oil, there are bold rats that dare to steal it; where there are loopholes in the system, there is room for rent-seeking. Fulfilling shared supervisory responsibilities and clarifying the subjects of power and responsibility is a major issue that grain storage cannot avoid. It is necessary to strengthen, institutionally, coordinated supervision over storage enterprises at all levels and of all types, so as to ensure grain security for the nation.
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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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Longping High-Tech Announces It Will Stop Selling Disaster-Affected Rice Seeds
Following the large-scale yield reduction and total crop failure of Liangyou 0293 in Anhui, the seed production company Longping High-Tech responded on the 12th, stating that it will voluntarily stop sales of Liangyou 0293 for reasons unrelated to product quality, and plans to establish a post-disaster relief fund for the seed industry, setting aside a certain proportion of
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