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Prominent "Inverted" Grain Market Phenomenon: Agricultural Product Price Reform Needs Coordinated Advancement
The "inverted" phenomenon in China's grain market is prominent, agricultural product price subsidies are already close to the upper limit of the WTO Amber Box subsidy rules, and market-supporting procurement is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Adjusting grain procurement prices cannot simply mean reducing fiscal subsidies and directly requiring domestic bulk agricultural product prices to
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Three Prongs Needed for Internet Plus Rural Development
Recently, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council convened an executive meeting of the State Council to specifically discuss how to accelerate the development of rural e-commerce. The meeting produced three resolutions: to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; to deploy accelerated development of rural e-commerce, boosting new business forms to spur consumption and benefit the people; and to determine measures to promote the development of the express delivery industry and cultivate new growth points in modern services.
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A healthy grain market cannot function without policy reform
This year's domestic grain harvest was bumper, but farmers are hardly pleased, because the sharp drop in grain prices could cause their incomes to fall steeply. Since early autumn, prices of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas have all declined to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices has been pronounced, with farm-gate prices
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What are farmers' new needs? Let's hear what farming households have to say
College graduates who go to the countryside to serve as village officials generally have a fire burning inside, but at first they may not be clear about what they can do at the grassroots level, because we are neither civil servants nor rural cadres. In July 2009, I first heard the title "college student village official"
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Mounting Inventory Makes Stored Grain Hard to Sell, 100 Billion Jin of New Grain Urgently Needs Placement
Right now is an important transition period in the grain circulation sector, as the summer grain purchase wraps up and the autumn grain purchase begins, but many places have recently run into grain storage difficulties. On October 8, the State Administration of Grain issued a notice, using two "unprecedented" phrases to describe the current grain storage situation:
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The legal system for agricultural product prices needs to be re-examined
On the premise that the market plays a decisive role in allocating resources, the prices of agricultural products are usually determined by the market, and the government, as the regulator of the agricultural product market, must keep its direct intervention in agricultural product prices to a minimum. In our country, as a means of adjusting agricultural product prices
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Goat Milk Powder Production Urgently Needs Industry Standard Guidance
Recently, the "Measures for the Registration and Administration of Infant Formula Milk Powder Formulas (Trial)" (draft for public comment) (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") issued by the State Food and Drug Administration also contains many new provisions for goat milk powder, the current "newcomer" in the infant formula milk powder sector. At present,
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Agricultural production urgently needs integrated water and fertilizer technology, experts call for accelerated promotion
With population growth and the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, China's resource and environmental constraints, such as shrinking arable land and scarce water resources, are tightening. At the same time, flood irrigation and excessive fertilization are still fairly common in many places, and the utilization rates of water and fertilizer are relatively low. Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
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Farmers also have significant wealth management needs, and the rural wealth management market deserves attention
In recent years, with the successive implementation and continuous introduction of various agricultural benefit policies in our country, farmers' incomes have continued to grow, and the demand for rural wealth management services has also continued to expand. However, farmers pay more attention to income growth while often neglecting the preservation and appreciation of income, and they pay insufficient attention to wealth management.
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Fruit Chains Rise Rapidly, Rapid Expansion Needs to Break Through Standardization Bottleneck
China's fruit chain industry has experienced many kinds of model innovation, but few have gained real momentum. Now, however, the chain fruit store Pagoda has secured the largest investment in the fruit chain retail industry to date. Recently, Shenzhen Pagoda Industrial Development Co., Ltd. completed
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