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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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Manure and livestock waste as fertilizer pose high risks: antibiotic contamination reaches deep into the soil
Antibiotics, as veterinary drugs and feed additives, are widely used in the livestock and poultry farming industries of countries around the world. According to statistics, China's annual use of veterinary antibiotics had already exceeded 6000 tons by 2000. However, about 60% to 90% of the antibiotics administered to farmed animals are excreted in their original form
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China's per capita grain possession approaches 900 jin, a record high
Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong said on the 6th at a press conference for the third session of the 12th National People's Congress that China's food security situation is steadily improving. Not only have total grain output and per-unit grain yield reached new highs, but per capita grain possession has also reached a historic high, approaching 900 jin.
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Modern agriculture in the high-latitude cold region welcomes a spring of development
In March, Beijing is still chilly with a touch of lingering cold, yet Zhang Enliang, a deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, feels a warm breeze on his face: spring has come, and I am very pleased to report to farmer friends across the country through Farmers' Daily that Heihe, situated in a high-latitude cold region, has also welcomed the spring of modern agriculture
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How Can Land Management Challenges Be Solved? A Full Analysis of Practical Countermeasures
The Party and state attach great importance to farmland protection and have repeatedly stressed that "the red line for farmland must be strictly guarded." But in reality, for various reasons, land management work has failed to effectively curb illegal and irregular land use. Under the new situation of comprehensively advancing the rule of law, we should
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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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How to Build a Highly Efficient Fiscal Support System for Agriculture
In recent years, the agriculture departments of Zhejiang Province have closely centered on the new strategy of building "Beautiful Zhejiang, Prosperous Zhejiang," proactively adapted to the new requirements of comprehensively deepening reform, taken fiscal management system reform as the driving force, actively innovated management methods, clarified the three pairs of relationships between government and market, between fiscal and operational departments, and between the provincial level and the city/county levels, streamlined administration and delegated power, clarified responsibilities and strengthened performance management, focused on building a new system of fiscal support-agriculture policies, project management and supervision and evaluation under the new normal, and promoted the development of modern agriculture across the province, achieving positive results.
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New Agricultural Machinery Subsidy Policy Highlights Market Thinking
China's agricultural machinery market has an obvious "policy-driven market" characteristic, which has led to a gradual decline in the marginal effect of agricultural machinery subsidies, while also squeezing the vitality of market entities. The "Guiding Opinions on the Implementation of Agricultural Machinery Purchase Subsidies for 2015-2017" proposes that, through market mechanisms, the subsidy policy should play a guiding role in agricultural mechanization, promote market-based matching between the two sides of subsidized products, and improve the targeting and precision of the policy.
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Agricultural product price reform may be imminent, high inventory pressure awaits resolution
The government is worrying about the large quantities of cotton and white sugar piled up in warehouses, bought from farmers at high prices, and now that prices have fallen, they cannot be sold at a loss, and if all the inventory is dumped onto the market, agricultural product prices would clearly face the danger of collapse. According to a reporter from China Securities Journal, the state
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High-vigor seeds should become an industry standard as soon as possible
Recently, the annual project summary meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture public welfare industry (agriculture) scientific research special project "Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for the Production of High-Vigor Seeds of Major Crops" was held in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. From China Agricultural University, the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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