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Fertilizer Industry Under Growing Pressure After Agricultural Subsidy Adjustment
Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Adjusting and Improving the Three Agricultural Subsidy Policies", adjusting and improving from 2015 the three subsidy policies: subsidies for improved crop varieties, direct subsidies to grain farmers, and comprehensive subsidies for agricultural inputs. What does this have to do with the fertilizer industry?
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What are the six severe challenges facing food supply security?
Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration of Grain and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Food Collection, Storage and Supply Security Guarantee Project Construction Plan (2015-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). This is the first national-level special plan for the construction of grain circulation infrastructure.
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Summer harvest little affected by El Nino heavy rainfall
Right now, China has entered its main flood season, with heavy rainfall striking frequently. Reporters learned from meteorological, water conservancy and other departments that this rainfall influenced by the El Nino phenomenon may continue to develop, and the flood situation is complex and changeable. However, the rainfall in some areas at present will not have a major impact on the summer harvest
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Domestic new wheat prices have risen rapidly recently
Domestic new wheat prices have risen rapidly recently. As the wheat harvest in the main producing areas advances from south to north, the volume of new wheat coming onto the domestic market has continued to increase. Against the backdrop of the minimum purchase price execution plans for wheat being activated in the four provinces of Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui and Henan, new wheat prices have not declined, but instead have risen rapidly within the past week.
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What three major changes did the 75 million yuan fine drive?
Recently, the Longyou County People's Court in Zhejiang issued a first-instance verdict on the "5.10" major environmental pollution case, sentencing Zhejiang Jinfanda Biochemical Co., Ltd. to a fine of 75 million yuan for the crime of environmental pollution. This is the largest fine ever imposed on a pesticide manufacturing enterprise for environmental issues.
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When will the rural power supply problem be solved? Farmers hope they no longer have to worry about electricity
Recently, this writer returned to his rural hometown. His elderly parents, talking about electricity for rural residents, could not help sighing again and again, saying that problems with household electricity occurred often, and finding someone to repair them was not easy. Most young people had gone out to work, and even among those who stayed in the countryside, few understood electricity
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China accelerates the comprehensive utilization of sericulture resources
Recently, the reporter learned from the national on-site meeting on comprehensive utilization of sericulture resources held by the Ministry of Agriculture in Yizhou, Guangxi, that in 2014, the output value of diversified utilization of sericulture resources in China reached nearly 15.5 billion yuan, an increase of 59% over the 5.7 billion yuan in 2010. This indicates that China's sericulture industry is accelerating its leap from the traditional single-industry development model of "one cocoon" and "one thread of silk" to the diversified development model of "one mulberry field" and "a series of resources."
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More efforts still needed to tackle livestock and poultry farming pollution
Recently, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Advancement of Ecological Civilization Construction" proposed strengthening the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution and increasing efforts to prevent and control pollution from crop and livestock farming, especially large-scale livestock and poultry farming. It can be seen that the problem of livestock and poultry farming pollution has become an agricultural
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Guard Strictly Against the Negative Effects of Industrial and Commercial Capital Going to the Countryside
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions on farmland protection, proposing that "particular attention must be paid to preventing problems such as some industrial and commercial capital going to rural areas, becoming involved in land transfers, and then carrying out non-agricultural construction, affecting farmland protection and grain production." In accordance with the spirit of these instructions, strictly guard against industrial
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Biological seed coating agent successfully pioneered in Zhejiang
Recently, a biological seed coating agent that can both improve seeds' resistance to pests and diseases, greatly increase crop yields, and cause no toxicity or pollution to humans, livestock, or the environment was successfully pioneered in Zhejiang and has been promoted over a large area. Seed coating is a practice widely promoted in China in recent years
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