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Farmers Self-Breeding and Self-Using Seeds Allowed to Be Sold or Bartered Sparks Controversy
If individual farmers have surplus conventional seeds that they have bred and used themselves, they may sell or barter them at rural fairs without needing to apply for a seed production and operation license. This provision in Article 37 of the draft amendment to the Seed Law was highly controversial. On October 31, multiple members of the Standing Committee
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Modern breeding is expected to become a key area of support under the 13th Five-Year Plan
On October 29, the communique of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China stated that by 2020, agricultural modernization will have made notable progress. Vigorously advance agricultural modernization, accelerate the transformation of the agricultural development model, and take a path of agricultural modernization featuring high output, safe products, resource
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Central finance provides 1.2 billion yuan to support livestock and poultry improved breeding stock subsidies
To support raising the level of improved breeding stock in animal husbandry and promote the sustained and healthy development of the livestock industry, in 2015 the central finance, through the modern agricultural production development fund, allocated 1.2 billion yuan to support the livestock and poultry improved breeding stock subsidy work, encouraging breeders to purchase improved frozen semen and breeding sires for livestock breed improvement.
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Specialty breeding leverages the Internet Plus to reach consumers directly
A university student used e-commerce to sell pheasants and earned 100,000 yuan in half a year; an old man in Chongqing sold pheasants online and sold 300 per month. Once traditional specialty breeding catches the Internet, it is like a kite riding the wind, unstoppable. The integration of the commercial trade sector with the Internet has a relatively long history, and e-
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Agricultural breeding stocks get a policy boost, sector performance draws attention
The State Council convened an executive meeting and decided to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; deployed accelerated development of rural e-commerce to boost consumption and benefit people's livelihoods by strengthening new business forms; and determined measures to promote the development of the express delivery industry,
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Improved Seed Breeding Receives 408 Million Yuan in Central Financial Agricultural Development Fund Support
Recently, the central government allocated 408 million yuan in comprehensive agricultural development funds to support the construction of improved seed breeding projects, involving 130 improved seed breeding bases in 30 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government). The projects mainly support breeder seed multiplication bases, improved seed breeding and processing bases
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Breeding R&D Will Be the Breakthrough for Making Potatoes a Staple Food
In the mid-16th century, the potato was brought from South America to Europe by Spanish colonists. By the 17th century, because of its higher yield than other grains and its ease of management, the potato had already become an important food crop in Europe and was introduced into China. Today, China
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The breeding industry is beginning to recover, and feed demand will relatively improve
In the earlier period, after domestic corn market prices rose sharply for a consecutive period, the overall market recently showed a pattern of stability in the north and weakness in the south. However, judging from the current supply and demand situation in the domestic corn market, this north-stable, south-weak situation will be difficult to sustain for long. On the one hand, current domestic corn prices are still relatively high compared with the same period last year,
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Multiple seed companies accelerate commercial breeding: good varieties fear no bad market
This year's spring and summer planting seed sales season, for seed companies and the entire industry, is both the worst of times and the best of times. The market is poor, and heavy inventory pressure remains the biggest difficulty commonly faced by seed companies. Taking corn seed as an example, although the hybrid corn seed production area has fallen sharply for two consecutive years and inventory has dropped to 1 billion kg, based on the national hybrid corn seed production area and inventory change trends, changes in corn seed inventory generally lag behind changes in seed production area by about two years. According to this pattern, the first quarter of this year exactly corresponds to the peak in seed production area two years ago.
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Space breeding scope expected to expand, exploring modern agriculture with Chinese characteristics
Space mutation breeding is one avenue for cultivating many new crop varieties, has played a major role in agricultural production, and has made a certain contribution to solving the country's food security issues. Space breeding is a research direction with our Chinese characteristics, because other countries
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