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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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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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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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Wheat purchase policy urgently needs further improvement under the new situation
On October 10, the National Development and Reform Commission officially announced that the minimum purchase price policy for wheat would continue in 2016, with the purchase price remaining unchanged at 1.18 yuan/jin. At this point, the wheat purchase policy commonly known as the market-support policy entered its tenth year. Ten years of market support, wheat prices (
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Support for agriculture investment mechanism needs improvement, agricultural law enforcement inspection report points out
Legal Daily, Beijing, November 2 - Reporter Zhang Yuan: The 17th session of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress today heard a report delivered by Zhang Baowen, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, on the inspection of the implementation of the Agricultural Law by the Law Enforcement Inspection Team of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. According to
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China's broiler chicken industry structure adjustment urgently needs deepening
Since the beginning of this year, the broiler chicken market has remained sluggish. Although there was a slight rebound before the National Day holiday, the purchase price of live broiler chickens in the main producing areas is currently mostly below 6 yuan per kg, still showing a relatively large decline compared with the same period in previous years. Industry insiders analyze that although broiler chicken prices have
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Is the GMO labeling system in need of revision? The Ministry of Agriculture is studying it
The Ministry of Agriculture is studying the question of whether the GMO labeling system needs to be revised. Yesterday afternoon, at the fourth media reporters' GMO training workshop, He Yibing, director of the Science and Education Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, revealed this information, and he also stressed that GMO labeling has no
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E-commerce going to the countryside needs deep and meticulous cultivation to yield results
On November 9, the General Office of the State Council published the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Accelerated Development of Rural E-commerce", comprehensively deploying and guiding the healthy and rapid development of rural e-commerce. The "Opinions" proposed that by 2020, a unified, open, orderly competitive, green and environmentally friendly rural e-commerce market system should be initially established.
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Chinese medicinal herb cultivation is still family-based and needs to develop at scale
In the recommendations of the 13th Five-Year Plan released on November 3, 2015, in the pharmaceutical sector, emphasis was placed on promoting traditional Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine. Data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that in the first half of this year, the main business revenue of pharmaceutical industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 8.91% year on year, while traditional Chinese medicine enterprises
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China's agriculture produces 1.4 trillion jin of straw annually; comprehensive utilization needs improvement
China is a major grain-producing country, and also a major straw-producing country. According to statistics, the energy of crop fruits and the energy of straw are roughly equal in quantity. Recently, at a seminar on China's 12th Five-Year Plan circular agriculture development and comprehensive utilization of crop straw policy, hosted by the Resource and Environmental Policy Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council,
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