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A Third of China's Soil Is Eroded, and the Situation for Farmland Protection Is Grim
By the end of 2013, China had a total of 646.1684 million hectares of agricultural land, with a net increase of 0.0049 million hectares of farmland during the year. China's total area of soil erosion now stands at 2.9491 million square kilometers, accounting for 31.12% of the total area covered by the survey. Zhao Ye, a professor at the School of Environment of Beijing Normal University, points out
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How should one respond when a brand crisis strikes?
In recent years, for a period of time, some agricultural product brands have encountered various crises due to unexpected incidents. Keyword phrases from brand crises of previous years such as "tainted milk powder," "melamine," and "lean meat powder" are still fresh in people's memories. Crises have brought harm and losses that cannot be made up for in a short time to local governments, regional industries, farmers
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What exactly is agricultural-input e-commerce? This article explains it
When an industry enters a deadlock, disruptive forces always emerge. The reason agricultural-input e-commerce has sprung up like bamboo shoots after rain this year ultimately lies in the fact that it has touched the industry's pain points. Agricultural-input enterprises getting involved in e-commerce is not hype, bandwagon-jumping or blind action. Unlike what many people imagine,
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The Poverty Alleviation Paradox: The Government Pours in Money, but Farmers Sink Deeper into Losses
In a certain area in western China, a rabbit-breeding craze once sprang up to help people escape poverty. The government pooled funds of various kinds to support it, and at its peak the rabbit population approached 400,000. But market conditions changed drastically, and in just 5 years the industry scale shrank to fewer than 70,000 rabbits. Many farming
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Is it true that no one farms the land in rural China?
What kind of land is left unfarmed? On May 26, General Secretary Xi Jinping issued important instructions on current agricultural land policy, stressing the need to protect arable land as we protect giant pandas. On one hand, we must strictly enforce the policy of balancing the occupation and compensation of arable land and hold the red line for arable land; on the other hand, we must regulate land transfer and prevent a Great Leap Forward in land transfer.
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Ten Thousand Mu of Wheat Harvested and Stored in One Day: Big Data Gives the Farm a Big Hand
The ten thousand mu of wheat at Deqiang Farm in Lingcheng District, Dezhou City, Shandong Province, was all harvested and safely stored in just one day. Regarding this massive wheat harvest "battle," farm general manager Feng Shuqiang remarked with emotion: "It was big data that gave me a big hand!" At Deqiang Farm, the application of the Internet of Things and big data makes it resemble a factory even more.
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Prices of popular Chinese medicinal herbs such as angelica and gastrodia drop sharply
Due to blindly expanded cultivation, output of many previously hot-selling varieties such as angelica and gastrodia is severely oversupplied. Not only have lofty items like bird's nest and cordyceps been consigned to the cold palace by the market, but "everyone's darling" Chinese medicinal herbs have also begun to fall in price and attract few buyers. The reporter learned that, including Salvia miltiorrhiza,
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What Are the New Connotations of Agricultural Modernization? Read This One Article to Understand
[Guide] Marketization, branding and informatization are the three core elements of agricultural modernization. The marketization of agricultural products addresses issues such as market efficiency and farmers' income; branding enhances consumers' trust in the value of products; and informatization is an important
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Why the food issue cannot be measured in economic terms alone
More than 1.3 billion mouths to feed, every meal matters, not a single day can go without food. Food security cannot be measured by economic accounts alone; it must also be measured by people's livelihood. Does the fact that grain has been harvested abundantly for years on end mean we can ease off on the drive to grow grain? Based on the Ministry of Agriculture's crop monitoring and actual harvests across the country, the summer grain harvest is expected to reach a new high, laying a solid foundation for a bumper harvest for the whole year. With the support of the Party's policies to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers, China's grain output has achieved an "eleven consecutive increases," and last year grain output stabilized at the 1.2 trillion jin level for the second time. As this year's summer grain harvest is once again abundant, some people sigh that since grain has yielded such high harvests for so many years, there is no need to keep pushing so hard on grain production. Such a sign is unacceptable; we must keep a very clear head.
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The grain issue cannot be reckoned only in economic terms; it must also be reckoned in terms of people's livelihood.
More than 1.3 billion mouths, every meal must be fed, not a single day can be broken; food security cannot be reckoned only in economic terms, it must also be reckoned in terms of people's livelihood. Does the fact that grain has been harvested abundantly for years in a row mean we can ease up on the drive to grow grain? Judging from the Ministry of Agriculture's crop-condition monitoring and the actual harvests in various places, the summer...
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