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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 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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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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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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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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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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State Council proposes building 800 million mu of high-standard farmland by 2020
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on March 18, clarifying the departmental responsibilities and division of labor for the "Government Work Report" to ensure the completion of the main targets and tasks for economic and social development for the whole year; deploying the promotion of sustainable agricultural development and accelerating agricultural modernization;
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Do saplings planted after Arbor Day have a high survival rate?
On March 10, at Tuohou Wetland in Xuecheng District, more than 300 cadres and workers from the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development, Administrative Law Enforcement, Municipal Landscape and Gardening, Planning and other units swung their shovels to dig the soil, water and add seedlings. In the course of one morning, they planted black pine, deodar cedar, tall glossy privet, evergreen tree species and flowering shrubs and other
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Wheat crop conditions hit a near-10-year high for the same period, with drought persisting in some areas
Currently, most regions across the country have entered the busy farming season of spring plowing and spring sowing. Yan Hao, chief expert at the Agrometeorological Center of the National Meteorological Center, pointed out that thanks to favorable temperature and humidity conditions earlier on, spring plowing and spring sowing got off to a good start in most regions; however, before March 28, the winter wheat region of North China had basically no effective precipitation, and drought conditions in parts of central and southern Hebei and northwestern Henan will persist.
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For gutter oil to fly high, policy support is still needed
On the morning of March 21, a Hainan Airlines Boeing 737-800 passenger plane flew from Shanghai Hongqiao to Beijing International Airport. This flight used biofuel converted by Sinopec from waste cooking oil collected from restaurants (commonly known as "gutter oil"). This is China's first use of bio
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