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How New Urbanization Leads the Work on Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers
Advancing new urbanization is an important path to resolving the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, a strong support for promoting coordinated regional development, and an important lever for expanding domestic demand and promoting industrial upgrading. Development is an important content and important aspect of transforming the development philosophy, clarifying the development direction, and achieving a shift in work guidance.
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How should the target price reform for agricultural products be carried out?
The predicament and direction of the reform of the target price system for agricultural products. China's food security implements the strategy of "taking self-sufficiency as the mainstay, basing itself on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support," firmly holding the rice bowl in our own hands. This year's No. 1 Document proposed the target price system for agricultural products, and through price mechanism reform, smoothing the relationship between supply and demand is of great significance to ensuring China's food security. What is the target price system for agricultural products? It means that the government sets a target price for agricultural products. When the actual market price is higher than the target price, low-income consumers are subsidized; when the market price is lower than the target price, producers are subsidized according to the price difference. In 2014, pilot programs for target price subsidies for soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia and for cotton in Xinjiang were launched, exploring pilot programs for target price insurance for agricultural products such as grain and live pigs, and carrying out pilot programs for marketing loans for entities operating grain production on a large scale. If the pilot programs are further expanded in the future, many unresolved difficulties still lie ahead, mainly including:
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How can grain growers be so confident?
The harvest is not bad, averaging over 1,240 jin per mu. Sha Cairong, 46, standing in a warehouse stacked with rice at the village entrance, told the reporter, look, this is the rice from over 100 mu, to be processed into milled rice and then sold. The rice from the remaining 250 mu has already been sold, third-grade mixed rice
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How Can Agricultural Insurance Be Allowed to Become a "Tang Monk's Flesh" Everyone Feasts On?
The long-awaited agricultural insurance policy fails to deliver when agriculture is hit by disaster. The "experience" of 240,000 mu of "insured" corn in Sheqi County after being hit by disaster is truly puzzling, and it also exposes some deep-seated problems in the implementation of the agricultural insurance policy that urgently need to be solved.
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How should we treat food with tenderness
On November 24th, your newspaper's commentary page published the article "Every Grain of Food Deserves to Be Treated with Tenderness," which provided some little-known and shocking figures. This confirms the lament of a German scholar: "China is the world's largest poor country, and also the world's largest
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How can grain be kept fresh in storage while safeguarding quantity, quality and ecological security?
At present, China's grain reserves have developed from the single-minded pursuit of quantity security to taking into account both quality security and ecological security. The greatest potential for safeguarding stored grain security lies in science and technology, and the fundamental path also lies in science and technology. The National Food Administration recently held the National Grain Science and Technology Innovation Conference and released
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How can breeding technology make seed production simpler?
The core competitiveness of a corn variety is mainly reflected in 3 aspects. The first is ease of seed production, that is, the seed production technology is simple and easy to operate, and the seed production yield is high, making it easy to ensure all quality parameters; the second is field performance, with high yield, stable yield, multiple resistance, and wide adaptability; the third is grain
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How to respond to falling Chinese cabbage prices? Ordinary cabbage prices down 40% year-on-year
Editor's note: As the saying goes: turnips at the Start of Winter, cabbage at Light Snow. Right now, many areas in northern China are successively entering the peak marketing period for Chinese cabbage. Compared with last year, Chinese cabbage prices have fallen in many places this year, with declines in some areas approaching 40%. What are the reasons causing
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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China's Food Security Faces Five Historic Challenges, How to Respond?
Food security is a very fundamental issue for China. Over the past decade, our country's grain output has increased continuously, and the self-sufficiency rate of cereals is close to 98%, achieving hard-won results. But at the same time, we must also recognize that our country's food security faces many complex and profound problems, many of which are new problems and new challenges arising along with economic development, requiring our careful study.
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