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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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Farmland soil should be tested regularly to understand its health
Nowadays, farmers are increasingly aware of the important role soil plays in increasing grain yields and income. Many farmers are eager to understand the soil quality and fertility conditions of their own fields so they can apply fertilizer in a reasonable formula. But at present, in rural areas, those who know how to do soil testing and formula fertilization
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Efficient Agriculture Calls for Socialized Services; Cooperatives Should Fulfill Their Service Function
Editor's note: To raise the output efficiency of agriculture, lower the cost of planting and breeding, and achieve professional and efficient operation in all links such as plowing, planting and harvesting, there is a growing call for the intervention of agricultural socialized services. Especially as China's agriculture continues to
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Land transfer should allow farmers to "wait and see"; it cannot be rushed
Everything must proceed from reality, and especially for a major matter like land transfer, it must not be divorced from the real conditions of rural areas and the real capabilities of farmers. Large-scale farming is something new to many "new farmers"; as large-scale growers, everyone is doing it for the first time, and it cannot simply
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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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Why Should Homestead Land Not Be Put on the Market for Sale? A Policy Interpretation
At this year's two sessions, regarding exactly how homestead land should be reformed and whether it should be rolled out across the board, the committee members and representatives had a heated debate. Cai Jiming, a deputy to the National People's Congress and director of the Center for Political Economy at Tsinghua University, believes that the pace of China's land reform is currently
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Industrial development should listen more to farmers' opinions
For a place, having good advantageous agricultural resources is a blessing; if support policies are on the right track and measures are appropriate, the advantageous resources will naturally be transformed into an industry that enriches the people, letting farmers benefit from it, which is even more of a blessing. One agricultural product is
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How can meat poultry farming methods adapt to changes in consumer demand?
With social changes and economic development, meat poultry farming methods have also undergone significant changes: higher nutritional levels, greater feed supply, less activity, shorter rearing cycles, larger farming scale, more growth-promoting measures, more detailed management
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How should the price competitiveness of China's agricultural products be improved?
Anhui netizen Xiaomili: My hometown is in the countryside. When I went home for the Spring Festival this year, I heard villagers say that last year's vegetables and fruit did not sell well. In the past, our family's agricultural products were all exported, but last year the price advantage was not obvious, and exports were not smooth either. May I ask, how should
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Cracking Down on Seed Label Switching and Infringement: The Crime of Infringing New Plant Variety Rights Should Be Criminalized
●Add a provision to Chapter III, Section 7 of the Criminal Law: Without the permission of the variety rights holder, producing or selling a protected variety, where the circumstances are serious, shall be punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or control, and concurrently or alternatively by a fine; where the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three
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