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Insufficient high-quality wheat production capacity, experts call for expanding planting area
During the summer harvest season, it was learned from the "2015 First China High-Quality Wheat Industry Development Forum" held on June 10 that with the rising demand for high-quality wheat from flour and food processing enterprises, the domestic supply gap for high-quality wheat has become prominent, and experts at the forum called for accelerating the
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How to solve the difficulty of selling grain? Developing high-quality grain production is an effective path
The difficulty of selling grain has become an indisputable reality in China today. Without the support of the minimum purchase price, grain market prices would remain in a persistently sluggish state. In the quiet grain market, high-quality grain always stands out. With high-quality grain in hand, there is no worry that grain merchants will
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Why have prices for high-quality wheat in southern Hebei and northern Henan risen so sharply?
This year, because the wheat harvest in southern Henan encountered rainy weather, the wheat developed imperfect kernels and even sprouted grains. As a result, the quality of high-quality wheat varieties in southern Henan, mainly Xinong 979, is generally poor. High-quality wheat in northern Henan and the Hebei region has become the main focus of attention in the industry.
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Strong-gluten wheat snapped up and hoarded at high prices: how big is the market risk ahead?
Since late June, as the wheat harvest north of the Yellow River has basically ended, the range of new wheat coming onto the market in the main producing areas has gradually expanded, and market buying and selling has become more active than in the earlier period. Judging from recent purchasing conditions in various regions, the price of new ordinary wheat has been running relatively stable, but price trends in the north and south
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Higher summer harvest efficiency, with mechanized harvesting playing an indispensable role
In late June, the large-scale cross-regional mechanized harvesting in China's main wheat-producing areas was fully completed. This year during the "three summers," localities across the country invested a total of 560,000 combine harvesters, with a mechanized harvesting rate exceeding 92%. The agricultural authorities' meticulous organization and scheduling of the summer harvest, the promotion and application of a batch of new agricultural mechanization technologies,
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High-quality wheat prices are rising rapidly, and here is how the industry sees it
High-quality wheat prices are rising rapidly. In recent times, prices of high-quality strong-gluten wheat have risen rapidly across various regions, and the market for buying and selling high-quality and ordinary wheat can be described as a tale of two extremes. The reason is that some traders believe that, based on last year's experience, high-quality wheat will still have a relatively good market this year, and they have entered the market one after another to snap up supplies, with the mentality of hoarding high-quality wheat continuously strengthening. On the market-support purchase front, as market-support purchases in various regions gradually get into gear, the purchase pace is expected to accelerate, and purchase volumes will gradually expand. Supported by this, prices of new ordinary wheat will rise slightly while remaining stable, but the room for increase will be limited.
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Agricultural machinery is fast but too expensive, and subsidies are good but the paperwork is too slow
On July 7, the 2015 Qingyuan City agricultural machinery safety, agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, and hilly and mountainous area agricultural machinery technology promotion publicity and consultation activity was held in Fengyang Town, Lianzhou City. The activity included consultations on agricultural machinery laws, regulations, and safety knowledge, and the machinery purchase subsidy policy, as well as hilly and mountainous area
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Double-season super rice early-season yield reaches up to 738.5 kg per mu
On the 18th, an expert panel invited by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Agriculture conducted an acceptance evaluation in Xingning City, Guangdong Province, of the research project on annual per-mu yield of 3,000 jin for South China double-season super rice, led by "father of hybrid rice" Yuan Longping's team. After on-site yield measurement, the expert panel announced that the project's early-season average
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Grain Production, Imports and Stocks: The "Three Highs" Become a New Challenge
High production, high imports, high stocks: How to answer China's new challenge of the "three highs coexisting" in grain. Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 15th show that the total national summer grain output in 2015 was 141.066 million tons (282.13 billion jin), an increase of 3.3% over 2014. With this, China's summer grain achieved a "twelfth consecutive
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Nationwide summer grain harvest exceeds 90 percent, output expected to hit a new high
The wheat has all been harvested. Xu Zongxiang, the "Wheat King" of Taihe County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, is busy with field management, preparing to reap an even bigger autumn grain harvest on top of the summer grain bumper crop. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop monitoring and actual harvest results from various regions, the nationwide summer grain harvest has now passed 90 percent, a bumper harvest is a foregone conclusion, and the summer grain output is expected to hit a new high. With the global wheat production situation hardly encouraging this year, China's wheat production has bucked the trend, and achieving a "12th consecutive bumper harvest" is now a foregone conclusion. This is of great significance, powerfully boosting confidence in securing a bumper harvest for the whole year and laying a good foundation for increasing annual grain output.
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