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Ministry of Agriculture Deploys Drought Relief and Spring Management Work, Strengthens Guidance and Services to Advance Scientific Drought Relief
"Start of Spring" has passed, and spring field management is unfolding from south to north. Since December last year, most of the northern winter wheat region has had no effective precipitation for more than 60 consecutive days, with temperatures 1-2°C higher than normal, and surface soil moisture in some wheat fields is poor, with signs of drought emerging. According to the China Meteorological Administration, in spring the temperature in the northern winter wheat region is expected to be close to or higher than the same period in normal years, and some areas may experience relatively severe spring drought. On February 13, the Ministry of Agriculture urgently deployed the current drought relief and spring management work, requiring all localities to conscientiously implement the spirit of the national video conference on spring field management and spring plowing preparations, with a high degree of self-awareness and firm confidence, base themselves on fighting disasters to secure a bumper harvest, strengthen responsibility and ensure implementation, and go all out to win the tough battle of drought relief and spring management, so as to gain the initiative for securing a summer grain harvest.
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Xinhua News Agency: Fragrant flowers accompany spring plowing, busy farming in the spring fields
On February 25, villagers of Gaolong Village, Tieshan Town, Dazu District, Chongqing Municipality, led their oxen through the fields. After the Spring Festival, rapeseed flowers across the vast southern regions gradually release their fragrance, accompanying the people working in the fields. Photo by Xinhua (Luo Guojia). On February 25, in Mingyue
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New Urbanization Through the Lens of Spring Festival Travel Big Data: New Challenges and New Opportunities
The Spring Festival travel rush is a social phenomenon unique to China's urbanization process, and it is also one of the manifestations of the severe imbalance in China's economic development levels between the east and the west. Escaping "Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou" is easier said than done. According to Baidu Migration big data, taking 17:00 on the 25th (the seventh day of the first lunar month) as an example, the hottest cities for in-migration
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The urbanization symbols reflected in the Spring Festival travel rush
Around the Spring Festival, the large-scale Spring Festival travel rush begins again. This scene presents the rapid transformation of "rural China" and also embodies the profound background of the country's urbanization. Understanding the urbanization symbols shown in the Spring Festival travel rush can help better understand, behind economic growth,
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Modern agriculture in the high-latitude cold region welcomes a spring of development
In March, Beijing is still chilly with a touch of lingering cold, yet Zhang Enliang, a deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, feels a warm breeze on his face: spring has come, and I am very pleased to report to farmer friends across the country through Farmers' Daily that Heihe, situated in a high-latitude cold region, has also welcomed the spring of modern agriculture
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Spring disease prevention work must be deployed early and carried out solidly
On March 6, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national video conference on spring major animal disease prevention and control, to deeply analyze the current prevention and control situation and arrange and deploy spring major animal disease prevention and control work. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen emphasized at the meeting that it is necessary to highlight key points and solidly carry out
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It's the right time to prepare for spring plowing - what are farmers still lacking?
After the Awakening of Insects, various parts of Shandong successively entered the stage of spring plowing production. As the saying goes, "At the first thunder of the Awakening of Insects, farming families have few idle days." Temperatures were on the high side last winter and this spring; how is the winter wheat growing now? The central "No. 1 Document" has continuously focused on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers; what hopes remain at the grassroots level? With
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Rice prices rise in some areas due to a temporary supply shortage
During the Spring Festival, rice processing enterprises in Northeast China stopped operation, and they also resumed work relatively late after the holiday, so the rice market supply was relatively small; moreover, before the holiday, distributors in sales areas were rather pessimistic about the later rice price trend, so they kept relatively small rice stocks. After the holiday, market demand recovered,
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Spring Disease and Pest Control for a Bumper Harvest: Ministry of Agriculture Launches Special Action
According to monitoring by the National Major Crop Disease and Pest Forecasting Network, affected by the warm winter, the incidence base of diseases and pests on summer-harvest grain and oil crops such as wheat and rapeseed this year is higher than in normal years, and the occurrence time is earlier than in normal years. As temperatures rise, a variety of major diseases and pests will successively enter the peak period of occurrence and damage,
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A Hundred Million Mu of Rapeseed Flowers Bloom Across China: Where Does the Rapeseed Oil Go?
In early spring in March, the rapeseed flowers are blooming again, and the areas around cities and the ridges of the fields all turn golden yellow. Once the flowers finish blooming, freshly pressed rapeseed oil is about to hit the market. But this dark-colored oil, which carries the taste memories of the previous generation, is now nowhere to be found in today's shops and supermarkets.
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