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34 major crop full-process mechanization demonstration projects pass ministerial-level acceptance
Website news, August 26-27, 2015, the Agricultural Machinery Extension Station of the Ministry of Agriculture organized in Yinchuan City, Ningxia, the acceptance meeting for the 2014 major crop production full-process mechanization demonstration projects, conducting acceptance of 34 projects undertaken by 20 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and 1 separately planned city across the country
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Favorable sunny weather across most of northern China helps autumn-harvest crops fill and mature
The reporter learned from the national agricultural meteorological bulletin released by the Central Meteorological Observatory of the China Meteorological Administration on September 6 that this week most of the southeastern part of northwest China and most of the southwest will see rainy weather, which is unfavorable for harvesting and drying mature crops. Most agricultural areas in the north will be mainly sunny
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Liaoning drought persists, crops in most of Northeast China growing well
Qian Shuan, chief expert at the Agrometeorological Center of the National Meteorological Center, said that at present close attention should be paid to the effects of drought in the Northwest, the autumn rain in West China, early frost in the Northwest and Northeast regions, and the cold dew wind in the South on the grain filling and maturation of autumn-harvested crops and the sowing of winter wheat and rapeseed. From September 10 to
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Chinese Scientists Combat Soil Disease to Protect 45 Million Mu of Greenhouse Crops
"In the past, when the fields were hit by disease, the yield per mu was no more than 8,000 jin, and crop rotation and fallowing didn't help either. Now with soil fumigation technology, the annual yield per mu can reach around 13,000 jin." Wang Wengang, a farmer from Shidui Town, Anqiu, Shandong, who has grown ginger for ten years, told reporters. Old Wang's story of increasing income
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2015 Autumn Grain Harvest Approaching: Manage Well to Boost Yields
Editor's note: Due to the abnormal climate this year, with drought and little rain early on and continuous rain later, the seedling conditions of autumn grain crops, especially dryland grain crops, vary greatly, making crop management considerably more difficult, creating conditions for the occurrence of pests and diseases, and proving rather unfavorable to crop growth. In response
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Why has full mechanization of crop production become an irresistible trend?
To promote the transformation of agricultural development mode and accelerate the process of agricultural modernization, the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "Opinions on Carrying Out the Action to Advance Full Mechanization of Major Crop Production," deploying nationwide the action to advance full mechanization of major crop production.
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China Achieves Major Breakthrough in the Application of Mycotoxin Prevention and Control Technology for Grain and Oil Crops
Comprehensively Elevating the Quality and Safety Level of Grain and Oil Products According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately 25% of the world's grain and oil crops are contaminated by mycotoxins each year. In China, due to individual farmer planting and storage practices as well as the high-temperature and high-humidity weather in the Yangtze River Basin and South China region
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Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development: unified variety approval for major crops across the three regions
A reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Seed Management Station that, in order to promote the extension and application of excellent new crop varieties in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, in 2015 the agricultural departments of the three regions jointly issued the "Opinions on Establishing an Integrated Crop Variety Approval Mechanism for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei." While retaining
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Vice Minister of Agriculture Li Jiayang: Commercial Cultivation of GM Crops Is Being Steadily Advanced
From November 16 to 18, during the 17th China Hi-Tech Fair, more than 300 agricultural genomics experts from home and abroad, from over a dozen countries and regions, gathered in Shenzhen for in-depth exchanges. Our country's scientific research level is rapidly approaching the international leading level on the whole.
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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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