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Phasing Out Toxic Pesticides Cannot Be a Burden on Farmers Alone
Phasing out toxic pesticides is farmers' business, yet it is not entirely a matter for individual farmers. Besides intensifying the investigation and punishment of pesticide varieties that have been explicitly banned, the state should also vigorously develop highly efficient, low-toxicity biological pesticides. At the same time, it should establish and improve the ecological agriculture industry chain, and through special
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City residents go to the countryside for spring plowing: how can happy farms achieve a win-win for both urban and rural areas?
The online version of Happy Farm was once all the rage, and now a real-life version of Happy Farm is quietly emerging on the outskirts of Beijing. As city residents yearn to return to rural life, many people on the Beijing outskirts have spotted this market and are rolling out leisure agriculture projects that let city dwellers go to the countryside and cultivate a "one-fen plot." However, the real
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Activating Modern Agricultural Concepts: Land Transfer Achieves High Efficiency
In recent years, riding the wave of land transfer, a large number of new-type agricultural business entities in our city have grown rapidly. However, after land is consolidated into scale, problems such as loose management, insufficient funds and inadequate investment in infrastructure remain the primary factors restricting agriculture from becoming bigger and stronger. For example
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How can the concept of lawful farming take root in people's hearts?
In order to better create a safe and healthy production environment for livestock and poultry farming, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and enable the vast number of livestock and poultry farms (households) to more consciously abide by animal husbandry and veterinary laws and regulations, the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, will soon organize livestock
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Don't Let Excessive Land Transfer Fees Undermine the Enthusiasm for Growing Grain
Editor's note: As the state encourages and supports the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale operators, family farms, and farmer cooperatives to develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, land transfer is in full swing across the country. However, rising transfer fees are continuously shrinking the profit margins of large grain-growing operators and other new types of business entities. While feeling the pressure, some have already been forced to give up growing grain and switch to other more profitable cash crops. How can the reasonable returns of these new types of grain-growing business entities be ensured? How can their enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? These questions are worth pondering.
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How can modern agricultural industry alliances achieve 1+1+1>3
The establishment of modern agricultural industry alliances is, under the adherence to the household contract management system, against the broad backdrop of cultivating new types of agricultural operating entities, developing various forms of scale management, and building an agricultural operating system that combines intensification, specialization, organization and socialization
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Modern logistics system for Chinese medicinal materials expected to be completed by 2020
This newspaper, Beijing, April 6 dispatch, reporter Li Yuyang reports: The General Office of the Ministry of Commerce recently issued the "Notice on Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Modern Logistics System for Chinese Medicinal Materials," proposing that by 2020, an integrated modern logistics system for Chinese medicinal materials covering harvesting, origin processing, packaging, warehousing and transportation will be initially formed
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Let the vital lever of land transfer be set in motion
"This training was worth attending. Right now the county is facing some difficulties in land transfer, so it's a good chance to ask for guidance and learn from experience." From March 26 to 31, during the third session of the national rotation training for directors of major agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery counties, the agriculture (rural economy) directors class, like the other participating directors, Wu Lili, director of the Agriculture Bureau of Jiaoling County, Guangdong Province, received a special research and discussion assignment.
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Land rights confirmation policy gives farmers peace of mind
Last year I transferred 100 mu of land, and the income per mu was around 1,200 yuan. Recently, in Wuyi Village, Heli Town, Gaotai County, Gansu Province, villager Zhang Tianhong told researchers from the Ministry of Agriculture's "Hundred Townships, Ten Thousand Households" Gansu survey team that in 2014, after years of running a small shop, he transferred 100 mu of farmland in the village at a price of 350 yuan per
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Early Rice Seedling Raising Nearly 80% Complete, Centralized Seedling Raising Steadily Expanding
Since late February, the South China and Jiangnan regions of China have successively entered the early rice seedling raising and transplanting period from south to north. According to the agricultural situation monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture, the intended planting area of early rice this year is expected to be over 87 million mu, an increase of over 300,000 mu compared with the previous year. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a monitoring and analysis of early rice production.
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