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Sorghum prices keep falling: how should growers respond in 2014?
Since the start of 2014, sorghum prices have failed to match last year's highs and have kept falling. As of December 9, the purchase price of new-crop sorghum held at 1.00 yuan/jin, down another 11% compared with September, while the ex-factory price of old-crop cleaned grain fell by as much as 22%. 2014 sorghum prices
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Broad prospects for GM agriculture, bold research should be pursued
Recently, the National Bureau of Statistics announced that this year's grain output increased by 10.3 billion jin over the previous year. After earlier drought disasters, how did grain achieve an eleventh consecutive increase? Why have imports still increased? Will grain production be developed through GM technology? Chief Economist and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Agriculture
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How should the target price reform for agricultural products be carried out?
The predicament and direction of the reform of the target price system for agricultural products. China's food security implements the strategy of "taking self-sufficiency as the mainstay, basing itself on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support," firmly holding the rice bowl in our own hands. This year's No. 1 Document proposed the target price system for agricultural products, and through price mechanism reform, smoothing the relationship between supply and demand is of great significance to ensuring China's food security. What is the target price system for agricultural products? It means that the government sets a target price for agricultural products. When the actual market price is higher than the target price, low-income consumers are subsidized; when the market price is lower than the target price, producers are subsidized according to the price difference. In 2014, pilot programs for target price subsidies for soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia and for cotton in Xinjiang were launched, exploring pilot programs for target price insurance for agricultural products such as grain and live pigs, and carrying out pilot programs for marketing loans for entities operating grain production on a large scale. If the pilot programs are further expanded in the future, many unresolved difficulties still lie ahead, mainly including:
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How should we treat food with tenderness
On November 24th, your newspaper's commentary page published the article "Every Grain of Food Deserves to Be Treated with Tenderness," which provided some little-known and shocking figures. This confirms the lament of a German scholar: "China is the world's largest poor country, and also the world's largest
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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Arrange production and sales sensibly based on seed market trends
After entering November, the late-autumn crop of Chinese cabbage from Hebei, Beijing and Shandong came onto the market in large volumes, and supply was very ample. On November 18, the wholesale price of Chinese cabbage at the Xinfadi market was 0.25-0.3 yuan/jin, up 10% week-on-week, down 35.29% month-on-month, and down 35.29% from the same period last year.
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How much agricultural facility land is actually reasonable to use?
With the continuous development of modern agriculture and large-scale land management, the current facility agricultural land policy can no longer adapt to the current situation. Recently, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Notice on Improving the Management of Facility Agricultural Land" (hereinafter referred to as the
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Should farmers pay the afforestation fund?
Agriculture Law of the People's Republic of China - The Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Amending the Agriculture Law of the People's Republic of China was adopted at the 30th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China in December 2012
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Why village officials' income is no small matter? Read this to understand
The question of whether civil servants' salaries should be raised has been hotly debated recently, while the issue of village officials' income seems to have received the attention it deserves. Village officials are the key to maintaining rural order. Whether village officials can keep going, and whether their income can support them in doing so,
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Why should urban-rural integration be farmer-centered?
Wangcheng District of Changsha City insists on planning, building and managing the entire area as one big park, one big garden and one big exhibition garden, and takes urban-rural integration as the golden key to solving urban and rural problems simultaneously. This is where the value of Wangcheng District's exploration lies, and it is also the
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