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How can modern agriculture accelerate its development? Institutional innovation is the key
In recent years, driven by the deepening of rural reform, Sichuan Province has vigorously cultivated diversified agricultural operating entities, built a new type of agricultural operating system, and continuously pushed forward the accelerated development of modern agriculture. At present, the province has 7 national-level modern agriculture demonstration zones, national-level agricultural industrialization
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Aquatic product output up 3.4% in the first half of the year, with standout highlights in distant-water fisheries
Beijing, August 4 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang) From the Ministry of Agriculture: In the first half of this year, fishery production nationwide developed steadily, with an adequate supply of aquatic products. According to statistics from 20 major fishery-producing provinces nationwide, from January to June the national aquatic product output reached 26.1638 million tons, up year-on-year
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China's high-mountain vegetable sown area reaches 22 million mu
China's high-mountain vegetable sown area reaches 22 million mu, becoming an important driver of poverty alleviation in mountainous areas. Xinhua News Agency, Yinchuan, July 29 (Zhang Liang, Yang Wenxi) - Qian Keming, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, recently revealed at the 6th China (Ningxia) Horticultural Expo that China's high-mountain vegetable sown area
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China's grain prices rank among the world's highest, and high-price market-support purchases have led to grain piling up in warehouses
China is not the world's most developed country, yet China's grain prices have for several years running remained higher than the international market. Large-scale grain and oil reserve purchases have kept China's grain prices rising steadily, and the China Grain Reserves Corporation (hereinafter "Sinograin"), which handles the grain and oil reserve purchases, has maintained a relatively
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Is growing grain actually worth it? High grain yields do not equal higher farmer incomes
China's number one wheat county welcomes a twelfth consecutive summer grain increase, yet a major grain county is not equal to a strong agricultural county, and high grain yields are not equal to higher farmer incomes. Even when grain is grown to the utmost, farmers' incomes are still not high, and Hua County is not content to accept this. Sharply raising grain prices is unrealistic; to both stabilize grain and increase income, Hua County is exploring a path to comprehensively upgrade agricultural industrialization.
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How does agriculture chart its path in an era of high costs?
Right now, land transfer has become the hottest phrase in rural areas. According to incomplete statistics, in Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, the number of villages participating in land transfer has reached more than 500, accounting for 65% of the county's total villages. At the same time, transfer fees are also quietly changing, gradually becoming
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The annual cost of manually removing water hyacinth in China reaches as high as 100 million yuan
Wang Yanliang, deputy director of the Department of Science and Technology Education of the Ministry of Agriculture and director of the General Station of Agricultural Ecology and Resource Protection, pointed out in his speech that invasive alien species are showing a trend of rapid growth in China, with nearly 50 new invasive species added in the past 10 years, and more than 20 dangerous invasive species have successively broken out and caused disasters over large areas in China.
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Policy grain purchases hit a new high in 2015, reaching 175 million tonnes
The 2016 Central Grain Reserves Work Conference was held in Beijing on the 5th. According to the relevant person in charge of Sinograin, in 2015 Sinograin purchased a total of 175 million tonnes of policy grain for the whole year, exceeding the 100-million-tonne scale for the third consecutive year and setting a new record high, giving full play to its role as the main force in purchasing and storage.
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Tightening supply and demand for high-quality corn, prices may continue to stay firm
Out of concern over quality issues, large feed enterprises in North China began increasing corn stocks relatively early. There are still nearly 40 days until the Spring Festival, but feed enterprises in North China have already been stockpiling for more than 10 days, and their corn inventories have already increased considerably compared with early December 2015.
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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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