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Crop price insurance lets farmers lock in profits without losses
If paying more than 20 yuan per mu in insurance premiums could guarantee the profitability of grain farming, I would certainly be willing to pay. The speaker is Liu Jianlin, a major grain farmer in Xueyan Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City. This year he planted more than 600 mu of rice; half of the plots yielded more than 650 kg of paddy per mu, while the other half could not be harvested in time due to rainy weather and yielded only 450 kg per mu. Moreover, this year the price of paddy was 0.46 yuan per kg lower than last year, so the profitability of grain farming was much worse than in previous years.
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National comprehensive agricultural mechanization rate expected to exceed 62% this year
File photo Since the beginning of this year, the national agricultural mechanization system, in accordance with the overall requirements of stabilizing grain production and increasing income, improving quality and efficiency, and driving development through innovation, has focused on implementing and improving policies, cultivating and developing entities, adjusting and optimizing equipment structure, making breakthroughs in mechanization of weak links, and promoting advanced and applicable technologies
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Breeding work for niche crops should not be neglected
How long does it take to breed a new crop variety? Older-generation breeders often tell me: ten years to breed one variety. This is no exaggeration. Even with off-season propagation in the south to add generations, traditional biological breeding techniques still require breeders to spend eight to ten years to select and breed a satisfactory
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How is the pilot program for the cropland rotation and fallow system being explored? The Minister of Land and Resources responds
Jiang Daming, Minister and Party Secretary of the Ministry of Land and Resources, published a signed article in the People's Daily on December 8, pointing out that the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development, adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Party, made a strategic deployment for the comprehensive conservation and efficient use of resources.
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What are the chemical fertilizer utilization rates for China's three major grain crops: rice, corn and wheat?
Zeng Yande, Director of the Planting Industry Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, revealed at a press conference on the 2nd that in recent years China has carried out an action to achieve zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the utilization rates of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have steadily increased. According to scientific calculation, in 2015 China's rice, corn and wheat three major grain
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Pilot Crop Rotation and Fallow Programs Should Focus on Storing Grain in the Land
In the explanatory notes on the recommendations of the 13th Five-Year Plan, exploring the implementation of a pilot system of cultivated land rotation and fallow was listed among several issues requiring key explanation, and it was explicitly pointed out that after long-term development, China's cultivated land has been developed and utilized too intensively, the soil fertility in some places has been seriously overdrawn, and water
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NDRC Accelerates the Comprehensive Utilization of Crop Straw to Promote Industrial Development
Notice on Further Accelerating the Comprehensive Utilization of Crop Straw and the Prohibition of Open Burning Fa Gai Huan Zi [2015] No. 2651 Development and Reform Commissions (Economic and Information Commissions), Finance Departments (Bureaus), and Agriculture (Animal Husbandry, Rural Economy) Departments (Commissions, Bureaus) of Provinces, Autonomous Regions, Municipalities Directly under the Central Government, and Cities with Independent Planning Status
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Measures for the Administration of Licenses for the Production and Operation of Crop Seeds, promulgated by the Ministry of Agriculture
Decree No. 3 of 2011 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China. The Measures for the Administration of Licenses for the Production and Operation of Crop Seeds have been reviewed and adopted at the 4th executive meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2011 and are hereby promulgated, effective as of September 25, 2011. Minister Han Changfu, August 2011
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How to grow macadamia nuts? Cultivation and planting technical regulations of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Tropical Crops
Macadamia nut orchard (III) Soil management 1. Maintenance of planting strips Every dry season, the planting strips should be maintained together with weeding to ensure that the 2-meter-wide strip surface is level and sloping inward, exposing roots and earthing them up, and filling in depressions. On steep slopes where it is difficult to guarantee the width of the strip surface,
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Completion of Seed Work by the Jinghong City Crop Quality Testing Center
In accordance with the requirements of higher-level leading departments, the Jinghong City Crop Quality Testing Center has successfully and satisfactorily completed the tasks of supervisory spot checks and commissioned testing of seeds. In line with the principles of science, impartiality, and fairness, and in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations on seed testing. As of
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