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Millet Grown in the Desert: Saving Water and Making Money
On January 13, Lin Xinghui, Party secretary of Menggentala Gacha in Barunbieli Town, Alxa Left Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, made a special trip to Beijing. He wanted to see with his own eyes his own desert millet launched on the e-commerce platform COFCO Womai. With a sales channel, this year's millet harvest
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Rural residents' per capita net income grew 9.2% in 2014, edging toward 10,000 yuan
On January 20, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on China's national economic performance in 2014. Ma Jiantang, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that according to preliminary calculations, the full-year gross domestic product was 63,646.3 billion yuan, up 7.4% over the previous year. The full-year rural residents' per capita net income
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More pro-farmer policies needed to boost farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain
Boosting farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain requires the government to introduce more policies that benefit and strengthen farmers, Yuan Longping, academician and "father of hybrid rice," said when accepting a media interview in Guangzhou on the 21st, adding that grain is "the treasure of treasures" and the government should do more to raise farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain.
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Analysis of Why Farmers' Income Growth Outpaced That of Urban Residents
The income gap between rural and urban residents continued to narrow in 2014. The latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2014, the per capita disposable income of urban residents in China was 28,844 yuan, while the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 10,489 yuan, and the per capita disposable income ratio between urban and rural residents was 2.7
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Li Yucai and His Story of Growing Oilseed Peonies
Peonies can be enjoyed for their beauty, used as medicine, and even pressed for oil? This may sound unfamiliar to most people. But for the gray-templed Li Yucai, a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, this has been a major undertaking he has devoted most of his life to promoting.
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Improve the quality of cultivated land and stop "farming the fields of our children and grandchildren to grow this season's grain"
With less than 10% of the world's cultivated land, it feeds one fifth of the world's population. This is both a great achievement of Chinese agriculture and a story full of helplessness and hardship. The national condition of many people and little land has kept China's agricultural production on a model of high input and high output, and cultivated land
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Action Plan for Zero Growth in Pesticide and Fertilizer Use Officially Released
The heavy use of pesticides has brought farmers greater convenience, but it has also brought serious pollution to the environment. To reduce pesticide use, the Ministry of Agriculture's action plan for zero growth in pesticide and fertilizer use has been released. On the afternoon of January 28, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu chaired an executive meeting of the ministry.
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Why do farmers ultimately all choose to grow medicinal herbs?
In recent years, Handan County in Hebei Province has started from renewing concepts, broken free from the constraints of traditional agriculture, and supported and guided villages and towns to develop specialty industries such as Chinese medicinal herb cultivation. By strengthening specialties, bolstering leading enterprises, and creating brands, it has blazed new paths for increasing farmers' incomes. It was found that the income per mu of medicinal herbs reaches
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Map of the main growing regions of Chinese cabbage in China
Napa cabbage, also known as heading cabbage, yellow sprout cabbage or hearting cabbage, etc., is a native and specialty vegetable of China, widely cultivated throughout the country, with North China as the main producing area, and its cultivation area and consumption rank first among all kinds of vegetables. In the north, napa cabbage is called the
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Farm Transformed into a Modern Agricultural Factory: Who Is Actually Growing the Vegetables?
Who Is Growing the Vegetables In plain terms, a plant factory is factory-style plant production, growing crops the way products are mass-produced in a factory, Wang Haibo, vice president of the Hebei Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, told the Economic Daily reporter. Plant factories are characterized by standardized growing procedures, uninterrupted growing time, and unrestricted growing seasons.
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