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On December 21, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 21 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 202.53, down 0.15 points from last Friday, among which the "vegetable basket" product wholesale price index was 203.68, down 0.15 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market
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140 central modern agricultural production development fund projects receive financial support
Reporter: Weng Jie, Correspondent: He Fashun. The reporter recently learned from the Provincial Department of Finance that this year's 140 central modern agricultural production development fund projects have produced notable construction results, and as of now more than 570 million yuan has actually been invested in the projects. It is reported that the central modern agricultural
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How are new-type professional agricultural machinery operators cultivated? This question is worth asking.
In today's busy "Three Summers" and "Three Autumns" seasons, amid the wheat and rice seas that ripple in the wind, it is hard to see farmers sweating profusely; more often shuttling back and forth are the agricultural machinery operators sitting in the cabs of combine harvesters. At present, China's agricultural production methods have entered an era dominated by mechanized
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Strategic Reflections on China's Agriculture Going Global
As early as 1995, China raised the idea of agriculture "going global," and in 2007 the No. 1 Central Document formally put agriculture "going global" forward as a national strategy. Over the past two decades, China's agriculture "going global" has gone through a development process from a nongovernmental launch to implementation as a national strategy. Over these two decades, China's
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Actively Responding to the Impact of Climate Change on China's Agricultural Production
Against the backdrop of global warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme drought events are steadily intensifying, and China's agricultural production is increasingly affected by extreme drought events. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from the 1950s to the first decade of this century, the affected area of China's crops doubled, and the damaged area increased by 2.8 times; over the same period, the severity of the damage increased markedly, with the damage rate among affected areas rising from 32% to 58%; in addition, the scope of impact of extreme drought events expanded from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the 1950s to the vast areas of Northeast China, the northwest interior and the southwest today. Improving agriculture's capacity to adapt to climate change is an important component of implementing the national master plan for climate change adaptation and is crucial to safeguarding China's food security.
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Fresh Ideas and Methods for Building a New Agricultural Ecosystem
After the term "Internet Plus" proposed at the 2015 Two Sessions became hugely popular, every industry was brewing cross-sector integration with the Internet, and even the oldest and most traditional agriculture was no exception. Unexpectedly, "Internet Plus agriculture" was the first to grab the policy bonus. Entering
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Three major agricultural sectors are ushering in a golden period of development
In recent years, with the rapid expansion of the domestic economy, the development of industries such as the stock market and real estate has gradually become saturated. And with the spread of the "Internet Plus" concept and the growing trend of e-commerce giants entering the agricultural sector, three major agricultural sectors have ushered in a golden development period
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Series of Commentaries on Strengthening the Agricultural Foundation to Secure a Moderately Prosperous Society ①: Seize the Critical Period
The 12th Five-Year Plan period, now drawing to a close, has been an extraordinary five years. The economy and society have achieved steady development, with the achievements in agricultural and rural economic development particularly outstanding: grain output has exceeded 1,100 billion jin for 5 consecutive years and 1,200 billion jin for 3 consecutive years; the supply of major agricultural products such as cotton, oil, sugar, meat, eggs and milk has been sufficient, and the quality of agricultural products has remained stable and improving; farmers' incomes have grown at a double-digit annual rate, with the growth rate exceeding that of GDP and that of urban residents' incomes for 5 consecutive years; the level of modern agriculture has risen markedly, with major indicators such as the effective irrigated area of farmland, the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress, and the comprehensive mechanization level of cultivation and harvesting of major crops continuing to climb. The Chinese people have firmly held their rice bowls in their own hands, and farmers' wallets have grown ever fuller. It can be said that after five years of climbing slopes and overcoming obstacles, and of ceaseless striving, agricultural and rural economic development has now reached a new historical high point.
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How can we seize the historic opportunity for agricultural transformation and upgrading?
Last year they planted corn, and this year they began rotating crops with soybeans, using 100 jin less fertilizer per hao of land. The nitrogen-fixing and soil-enriching effect of soybeans was also fully brought into play, greatly improving soil fertility. Xing Haijun, chairman of the Xinrong Cooperative in Yangjia Township, Bei'an City, Heilongjiang Province, who had grown corn continuously for many years
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WTO members commit for the first time to eliminating agricultural export subsidies
From December 15 to 19, the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya. Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng led the Chinese delegation composed of the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the General Administration of Customs and the delegation to the WTO
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