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Super hybrid rice crop failure raises questions; Longping High-Tech responds: historic low temperatures triggered rice blast
On July 30, 2013, Academician Yuan Longping inspects the growth of super hybrid rice in Shucheng County, Anhui Province. Photo/CFP Recently, Longping High-Tech's super rice Liangyou 0293, affected by rice blast, suffered large-scale total crop failure in Anhui, a major agricultural province, and affected farmers questioned the seed production
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Super Rice Crop Failure Total: Allegations of Concealed Defects; Longping High-Tech Responds, Says Abnormal Weather Was the Cause
According to a report by Southern Weekly, Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Longping High-Tech, 000998, SZ)'s super rice Liangyou 0293, affected by rice blast, suffered total crop failure over a large area in Anhui, and affected farmers questioned whether the seed-producing company Longping High-Tech was involved in
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80% of fertilizers bought online are fake, and farmers who lose their entire harvest can only swallow their grievances
According to statistics from the central bank, in the first half of 2014, China's online shopping users reached 350 million, each person spent an average of more than 3,000 yuan, and total online consumption reached 1.05 trillion yuan, and this figure is still somewhat conservative compared with the e-commerce companies' own data. As online consumption increases, so does
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The "one family, two systems" in agricultural products reflects a lack of oversight
Some media outlets exposed that farmers in parts of Weifang, Shandong, use the highly toxic pesticide "Shennongdan" to grow ginger, and the ginger farmers say "crops grown with excessive pesticides are not eaten by ourselves and not sent for export; all of them are only supplied for domestic sale." In fact, this "one family, two systems" phenomenon in the supply of agricultural products is not an isolated case
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Record Soybean Harvest Fails to Reverse Declining Legume Prices
An extra harvest of three to five dou was originally a sight that delighted farmers, but in a year of abundant production it became the straw that bent agricultural prices downward. In the golden autumn season, a spell of rainy weather during the soybean harvest on the other side of the ocean brought a small rebound in domestic and international soybean futures and soybean oil futures.
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Extinction-style aquaculture poorly regulated, functional departments fail to act
Pikou Town, Pulandian City, Dalian, Liaoning, is the largest area for sea cucumber farming in the waters around Dalian. Due to the large amounts of antibiotics and other drugs added by farmers, species in the coastal waters have been almost driven to extinction. Some fishermen said that in these waters, other organisms such as mullet and prawns
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Prince Charles's business venture failed, the UK's entrepreneurial environment is just too poor
A very, very long time ago, roughly thirty years before the Celestial Empire proposed mass entrepreneurship and innovation for all, Prince Charles started a business. He put together an ecological agriculture project. In 1986, Prince Charles bought a stretch of land that was devastated, with broken walls and ruined buildings, where all one could see was an abandoned church, an empty
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What are the reasons why mango trees fail to flower and suffer reduced yields?
Recently, Pingtung mangoes have gradually hit the market, but it has been reported that mango flowering and fruiting in Fenggang Village, Fangshan Township, fell short of expectations. Legislator Chuang Jui-hsiung recently inspected the area with experts and demanded that cash disaster relief for natural disasters be provided, but after the joint inspection team assessed the damage, it did not meet the standards for natural disaster relief
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Couple with Master's Degrees Fails to Outdo Elementary-School-Educated Farming Friend, Carves Out a Path with Scientific Research
The husband-and-wife team Huang Chun-chi and Li Hui-ya from Fangliao Township, Pingtung County, are among the few highly educated farmers bearing the halo of master's degrees from national universities. Originally working at an agricultural technology company and a securities firm respectively, they could not bear to see their farming parents grow old, so 14 years ago they returned to their hometown to take over the wax apple and
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Can You Grow Chili Peppers on a Balcony? Explaining Why They Fail to Fruit
There are many varieties of chili peppers, and they are one of the indispensable ingredients in daily life in many places, especially in Sichuan, Hunan and other regions, where no meal is complete without heat. Chili peppers are grown in many parts of our country, and their requirements for the growing environment are not very high, so they can generally survive. The growing
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