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Who Set the Main Tone for the Rise in Corn Prices?
Recently, the rise in domestic corn prices has slowed, but the overall price level remains firm. The extremely high volume of temporary state reserve purchases of corn in Northeast China is the main reason driving corn prices upward nationwide. However, the earlier sharp rise has overextended market expectations for the future, causing price growth to slow to varying degrees in some areas, and even to decline.
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Cotton prices keep falling; the move toward technology and mechanization should come sooner rather than later
The fireworks of March will soon pass, and the cotton-planting season has arrived. Every year at this time, cotton prices rise, but compared with previous years, the increase this year has been greatly reduced. At present, the average domestic spot price of ginned cotton is 13,330 yuan/ton, down 31.3% from last year and slightly up 0.11% from last
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Five Major Pitfalls of Agricultural Investment, Be Sure to Pay Attention Before Investing
One. Where did the money go? The funding predicament of agricultural enterprises. Falling before dawn, this is the most tragic scene of many agricultural investments. The Qingdao blueberry and Sichuan kiwifruit bases acquired by Lenovo, to some extent, their original operating companies were also suffering the pain of a "darkness before dawn" style ordeal.
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Why farmers should have confidence in their own agricultural products
8 years ago, China lifted its 4-year-long ban on rice imports from Japan. Among the first batch of rice Japan resumed exporting to China, two brands were very well known: one called "Koshihikari" and one called "Hitomebore." They became famous because they sold for too
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Sharp increase in grain imports heightens food security concerns
On one hand, grain production has increased for eleven consecutive years; on the other, grain imports have hit a record high. Yesterday, Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges' "Economic Monthly Talk" that last year China's imported soybeans and grains accounted for 10
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Uphold honest and self-disciplined business practices, and effectively safeguard farmers' interests
As spring returns to the earth, the whole country from south to north successively enters the busy spring plowing season, which is also the peak period for farmers to purchase seeds and other agricultural production materials. In order to safeguard farmers' interests, promptly provide farmers with excellent varieties and trustworthy seeds, and ensure the safety of seed quantity and quality
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A Hundred Million Mu of Rapeseed Flowers Bloom Across China: Where Does the Rapeseed Oil Go?
In early spring in March, the rapeseed flowers are blooming again, and the areas around cities and the ridges of the fields all turn golden yellow. Once the flowers finish blooming, freshly pressed rapeseed oil is about to hit the market. But this dark-colored oil, which carries the taste memories of the previous generation, is now nowhere to be found in today's shops and supermarkets.
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Promotion of Ecological Farming Helps Transform Development Methods
On one side is the relatively severe non-point source pollution and the declining carrying capacity of the rural environment; on the other side is the ever-growing demand for developing agricultural production and raising farmers' incomes. As the economy and society have developed to today's stage, the contradiction between production development and environmental protection has reached a point where it must be faced head-on.
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Urbanization does not mean leaving one's hometown behind, and farmers who move to the city need not give up their land
Urbanization does not mean making farmers "leave their hometown behind"; rather, it means enabling farmers to enjoy the same public services and living conditions as urban residents. In recent years, Dezhou City has explored the "joint development of two zones" - new rural communities and rural industrial parks - achieving for rural community residents "leaving the land but not the village, finding employment without leaving home, entering factories without entering the city, and becoming urbanized in place," blazing a new path of "people-centered, nearby urbanization," effectively solving the land bottleneck problem encountered in the process of urban development, and to a certain extent achieving a win-win of improved farmers' living conditions and long-term rural economic development.
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China's rural hollowing-out trend is now a foregone conclusion
China, a great power with empty nests, is now a foregone conclusion! The Spring Festival has already become a hurried passerby in my rural hometown. After many years, I returned to my rural hometown in Zhoukou, Henan, China, during the Spring Festival. I do not know whether it is because I have seen too many new buildings in the big city, but the village felt very dilapidated. Some newly built buildings seemed
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