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What does a professional manager at an agricultural cooperative do?
In mid-to-late July, it is the critical period for the "double rush" of Hunan rice. Despite the hot weather, Yang Yuming of Xidu Town, Hengyang County, Hunan, comes to the rice fields of Douling Village early every morning to check on the rush harvest of early rice and the transplanting of late rice. Yang Yuming is an ordinary man in his 50s
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What financial support policies are there for agriculture? The head of the Ministry of Agriculture answers reporters' questions
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Notice on Promoting Financial Support for and Service to the Development of Modern Agriculture", making a systematic deployment for promoting financial support for agriculture by agricultural departments at all levels. This is the first guiding document on financial support for agriculture issued by the Ministry of Agriculture. In the new era, promoting
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What to do about drought relief and disaster reduction? The National Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System offers a prescription
Report from this website: In the face of the current large-scale drought in China, the National Modern Agricultural Industry Technology System, the Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratories, and the national grassroots agricultural technology extension system, in accordance with the deployment of the Department of Science and Technology Education of the Ministry of Agriculture, have actively taken action, coordinated and collaborated, and gone deep into the front lines of production,
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What impact will large-scale land management have on the agricultural inputs industry?
With the development of modern agriculture in China, especially with the advancement of land titling, the process of land transfer will further accelerate, and this change will bring a profound impact on the agricultural inputs industry in the future. Agricultural input consumers are gradually changing from individual farmers to large-scale growers, family
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In the process of urbanisation, what are farmers worried about happening to their land?
I am just about to move my son's household registration from the county town back to the village. Chen Xing'an, the same age as the People's Republic, was a famous production team leader in the whole county during the era of the "big pot" communal canteens, and after reform and opening up became one of the first "ten-thousand-yuan households". Although he now lives in the city, whenever there is a major decision in the township, they still ask him to come forward.
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Family farms open a new dream of rural life: what kind of farms should be supported?
Editor's note: Family farms have played an important leading role in promoting the modernization of family agricultural operations and the scaling-up, standardization and intensification of agricultural production. In order to promote the standardized and efficient development of family farms, the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture recently held a
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What opportunities and challenges does the upsizing of agricultural machinery bring?
I. The trend toward larger agricultural machinery is becoming increasingly obvious. According to statistics from the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association on 21 major tractor enterprises (accounting for more than 85% of the tractor industry's output and output value) and 18 major harvesting machinery enterprises (accounting for more than 80% of the harvester industry's output value and output),
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Hybrid rice development is stalled: how can it be saved?
Data show that in recent years the downward trend in hybrid rice varieties has been very pronounced. The number of varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 1 million mu rose from 46 in 2002 to a peak of 59 in 2004, then declined year by year to 29 in 2012; the number of varieties with an annual promotion area of more than 5 million mu fell from about 9 in the early period to 1 per year at present; since 2007, no variety with more than 10 million mu has appeared. The average annual promotion area of a single main hybrid rice variety fell sharply from 2.133 million mu in 1993 to 374,000 mu in 2012, a drop of 82.5%.
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What was the total contracted investment at the China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair?
From September 6 to 8, the 2014 China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair, supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and hosted by the People's Government of Henan Province, was held in Zhumadian City, Henan Province. Sun Zhonghua, Chief Agronomist of the Ministry of Agriculture, Ma Youli, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Zong Jinyao, Director of the Agricultural Products Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture,
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Why on earth are bosses crossing sectors into farming?
Several decades ago, Chairman Mao said: "The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished!" And so, a great many young people set out on the journey of going up to the mountains and down to the villages with their ideals; several decades later, with policy guidance, the continuous development of China's agricultural industrialization, and
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