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Agriculture Minister: Agricultural resources have long been overdrawn and over-exploited, there is no idle farmland left anywhere
China News Service, September 14 (Reporter) - The latest issue of Study Times published a Q&A with Han Changfu, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of Agriculture, on unswervingly advancing sustainable agricultural development. Han Changfu pointed out that while China's agriculture has achieved tremendous successes, it has also paid a heavy price:
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Grassland agriculture development can draw on new models from abroad
As early as the Middle Ages, European agricultural production generally practiced the two-field system, that is, a simple system of rotating farmland between cultivation and fallow to regulate soil productivity. However, with the increase in Europe's population and the gradual depletion of land fertility, the two-field system could no
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A national blueprint for building the agricultural product market system
Reported by our reporter Li Yuyang: In order to scientifically plan the layout of the agricultural product circulation network and accelerate the building of an agricultural product market system compatible with new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, recently the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-
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Can 7 years of 100% compliance for raw milk win over consumers?
The latest data from the China Dairy Industry Association is embarrassing: China's milk output currently ranks third in the world, yet imports account for nearly one third of China's total dairy consumption. Agriculture Minister Han Changfu said on August 18 that the Ministry of Agriculture has implemented a raw milk quality monitoring plan for 7 consecutive years, that the pass rate for spot checks on prohibited additives such as melamine has remained at 100%, and that the milk protein and milk fat content of raw milk from large-scale pastures is substantially higher than the national standard. (Beijing Morning Post, August 19)
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Potato as a staple food: industrialization draws ever nearer, but how far is it from the ordinary dinner table?
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing higher and higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time. The potato is a major food that is rich in nutrients and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat and
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Straw burning control must rely on market mechanisms
Every summer harvest, all localities must face the major test of straw burning. This year, although all localities have imposed strict bans on burning, some places still have thick smoke billowing, with PM2.5 indices off the charts. Meteorological satellite monitoring shows that in June this year, straw burning in the country's main summer grain harvest areas
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Serious "non-grain" phenomenon in land transfers draws attention
The logical endpoint of capital going to the countryside, paying land rent costs and transferring land, is increasingly serious non-grain operation. On July 14, the Shaanxi Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics released survey results showing that the non-grain phenomenon in transferred land in Shaanxi Province is serious, with only 16.7% of land transferred to households growing
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Scientific Methods and Technical Key Points for Returning Wheat Straw to the Field
It is the "Three Summer" period, and farmers are all busy harvesting wheat. But how the wheat straw should be recycled after the harvest remains a problem that troubles farmers. However, in Yongqiao District, Suzhou City, Anhui Province, Li Qingwu, head of the Huaihe Grain Industry Consortium, and his members this year
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Corn inventories continue to be drawn down, and the choppy market will persist
In terms of quotes from major regions, as of June 19, prices in Dalian, Jinzhou, Changchun, Weifang and Shekou stood at 2,410 yuan/tonne, 2,400 yuan/tonne, 2,380 yuan/tonne, 2,400 yuan/tonne and 2,480 yuan/tonne respectively, with changes from the previous week of 0 yuan/tonne, 0 yuan/tonne, 0 yuan/tonne, +10 yuan/tonne and -
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Pig-to-grain price ratio rises, beef and mutton prices continue to fall, what about raw milk prices?
According to fixed-point monitoring of livestock product and feed prices at 480 rural fair markets nationwide, in May 2015 pig products and corn prices rose, while other major livestock products and feed prices mainly fell. Based on the rural fair market monitoring caliber, the May pig-to-grain price ratio was 5.66:1, up
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