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Agricultural development needs to shift from grain supply to the pursuit of economic returns
Advancing agricultural modernization and transforming the agricultural development model are the focus of China's 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture. How should agricultural development transform its model under the 13th Five-Year Plan? In the view of Li Jieren, Party Secretary of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the extensive production that used to pursue output above all, and the low efficiency brought by excessively dispersed smallholder production, both urgently require a transformation of the model.
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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland receives strong support from the Ministry of Finance
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland", in 2015 the state arranged a new round of tasks for returning farmland to forest and grassland of 10 million mu, mainly concentrated in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) including Hebei and Inner Mongolia, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, of which: 9.4 million mu to forest
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Winning the battle against poverty cannot be separated from the protection of the rule of law
Looking at some lessons and problems in past poverty alleviation work, the insufficiency of the force of the rule of law meant that the country's good policies could not be truly implemented, and it also let some lawbreakers exploit loopholes in the policies. Therefore, to win the battle against poverty, the force of the rule of law must be strengthened
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Central government provides 16.649 billion yuan in funding support for grassland ecological protection
According to the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Finance, in 2015 the central government further increased its investment, allocating 16.649 billion yuan, an increase of 880 million yuan over the previous year, to provide herdsmen with grassland grazing ban subsidies, grass-livestock balance rewards, improved forage seed subsidies and herdsmen production material subsidies
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Grain output may slump due to difficulties in selling grain and losses in growing it
From the start of the summer grain purchase season to the concentrated marketing of autumn grain, reporters conducting sustained follow-up interviews along several major producing provinces including Henan and Hubei found that, because of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests and the continuous one-way rise in the floor purchase price, the current grain circulation and procurement-storage links show many new trends: in some areas
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How Is China Adjusting Its Grain Policy? Chen Xiwen Points the Way
Judging from the statistics, China's grain production has shown an upward trend year by year since 2004. According to China's statistical criteria, China's total grain output grew from 430 million tons in 2003 to 607 million tons in 2014, an increase of 42%. Grain output in 2015 is expected to continue increasing.
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The development of grassland agriculture cannot be separated from the rational use of resources
To develop grassland agriculture and build a beautiful and prosperous plateau agriculture, Yunnan has great potential. Grassland agriculture is a modern system that integrates farming, forestry and animal husbandry as a whole, rationally uses resources and achieves sustainable development. The characteristic of grassland agriculture is combining grain cultivation with grass cultivation
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State Farms Accelerate the Building of an Agricultural Product Quality Traceability System to Safeguard Safety from Field to Table
The quality and safety of agricultural products bear on the health and lives of the people, on long-term economic development, and on social harmony and stability. As the backbone and representative of the state-owned agricultural economy, and as the national team safeguarding national food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, the state farm system has always
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Poverty alleviation and assistance: from back-to-back to hand-in-hand
After several consecutive days of gloom, the weather finally cleared up, and the chill in the mountain hollow was swept away. At the demonstration base of the Xingnong Chinese Medicinal Herbs Cooperative in Huibao Village, Daoba Town, Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province, the Atractylodes macrocephala planted at the beginning of the year had reached harvest time. On the slope, several farmers had their jackets open, straining with effort as each Atractylodes macrocephala plant was pulled up by the roots, the soil knocked off, and the tubers that had slept for nearly a year were nourished plump and endearingly sturdy.
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Wheat quality remained stable in 2015, with structural changes intensifying
The reporter learned from the "2015 Wheat Quality Evaluation and Wheat Quality Improvement Seminar" held recently that the quality status of wheat samples submitted for inspection in China in 2015 was generally stable. However, the structure of high-quality wheat has undergone obvious changes: the proportion of samples of strong-gluten and weak-gluten varieties is small, and medium-strong-gluten and medium-gluten wheat have become the main varieties of high-quality wheat meeting the standards.
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