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60 Years of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives: Rooted in Rural Areas, Serving Farmers
From going village to village and household to household to promote industrial goods going to the countryside and agricultural products entering the cities, to establishing specialized cooperatives; from agricultural input supply to renewable resource recycling; from contracted ploughing and planting and land trusteeship to cooperative finance... In recent years, the national supply and marketing cooperative system has seized opportunities such as the building of a new countryside, continuously deepened institutional reform, improved service networks, expanded service functions, and actively explored new paths toward developing into comprehensive service organizations.
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Is growing grain actually worth it? High grain yields do not equal higher farmer incomes
China's number one wheat county welcomes a twelfth consecutive summer grain increase, yet a major grain county is not equal to a strong agricultural county, and high grain yields are not equal to higher farmer incomes. Even when grain is grown to the utmost, farmers' incomes are still not high, and Hua County is not content to accept this. Sharply raising grain prices is unrealistic; to both stabilize grain and increase income, Hua County is exploring a path to comprehensively upgrade agricultural industrialization.
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Large grain growers must return subsidies to smallholders, leaving agricultural support policies stranded in confusion
In order to encourage the development of new types of agricultural business entities, in recent years the state and local governments have begun to provide them with fiscal subsidies. In Chongqing, subsidy standards are divided into two tiers according to operating scale: 160 yuan and 230 yuan per mu. But in grassroots practice, many smallholders have become "field bosses," and large grain growers have to "return" part of the subsidy money to them. In some districts and counties, large growers actually receive about 90 yuan per mu in subsidies, and in a few places even less than 10 yuan.
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China's grain imports have shown an "N-shaped" growth in recent years
Since the reform and opening up, China's grain imports have gone through stages of first growth, then decline, and then growth again, roughly showing an N-shaped trend. From 1978 to 1996, China's cereals (including wheat, rice, corn, sorghum, barley, etc., among which wheat, rice and corn are the main grains) were imported at an average of more than 10 million tons per year, with wheat being the most important imported product; in 1989, wheat imports reached 15 million tons, accounting for 1/6 of China's wheat output that year.
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Modern agriculture hits a development bottleneck: grain growers receive 20 for growing grain, 160 for not growing it
Under the combined effect of multiple factors, China's main summer grain-producing areas achieved another bumper harvest this year, ushering in an 11th consecutive increase. Among them, new agricultural business entities represented by family farms, large grain-growing households, and grain production specialized cooperatives have become an important driving force behind the bumper grain harvest.
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In July, grassland vegetation grew better than in normal years, with drought occurring in some areas
Website news: Based on a comprehensive analysis of ground observations, satellite remote sensing and meteorological data, the Ministry of Agriculture said that in July this year the national grassland vegetation growth condition was generally better than the same period in normal years, but worse than the previous year, and drought continued to develop in some grasslands. By region, 24% of the grassland in China
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Normalized grain production growth: innovating agricultural development methods is key
In recent years, Yongqiao District of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, as an important national grain production base, has strengthened its sense of overall interests, consciously shouldered the responsibility of safeguarding national food security, and, driven by the construction of the National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone and the National Comprehensive Rural Reform Pilot Zone, innovated modern agriculture
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Domestically grown kiwifruit passed off as imported, the most expensive sells for over a hundred yuan per jin
Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, kiwifruit comes fresh onto the market. Reporters recently visited the market and found that the prices of kiwifruit vary greatly, with the cheapest costing only about 3 yuan per jin, while the most expensive reaches over a hundred yuan per jin. Where does such a big price gap come from? Kiwi
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Good varieties are the key for seed companies to grow bigger and stronger
The corn seed industry has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent decades, reflected in the continuous expansion of corn planting area. From less than 200 million mu in the early days after Liberation, it hovered at the 200 million mu level for 30 years, broke through 300 million mu in the 1990s, and remained at this
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How do large-scale grain growers choose plant protection machinery?
I want to let the "Flying Tigers" take off and bring the "rice planthoppers" down. At the end of August, right at the critical juncture for preventing and controlling diseases and pests in late rice, at the Guobing Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Chuanxing Village, Paitou Township, Xiangtan County, Hunan Province, large-scale grain grower Zhang Aiguo was busy overhauling plant protection aircraft. He gave his own agricultural aircraft plant protection team a resounding name:
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