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Zero-Growth Action Plan for Fertilizer and Pesticide Use Officially Launched
On March 17, the Ministry of Agriculture stated that it will launch a nationwide zero-growth action plan for fertilizer and pesticide use, striving to achieve a fertilizer utilization rate and pesticide utilization rate for major crops of both over 40% by 2020, an increase of 7 percentage points and 5 percentage points respectively compared with 2013
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How to Grow Peanuts? The Ministry of Agriculture Releases the 2015 Production Technology Guidance
Oil Crops Expert Guidance Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (March 2015) Peanut sowing is about to begin. Based on this year's climate characteristics, the Oil Crops Expert Guidance Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Technology Extension Center have studied and put forward the 2015 peanut production technology guidance.
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What Are Grain-Growing Farmers Thinking? Growing Grain on Over a Hundred Mu Brings Considerable Returns
Opening Column Note: In order to further consolidate the achievements of the Party's mass line education and practice campaign, carry forward the fine style of the agricultural departments in working hard, serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and being honest and efficient, the Ministry of Agriculture recently organized the "Hundred Townships, Ten Thousand Households Survey" for the fifth consecutive year, sending
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How to deal with cadmium pollution in rice-growing areas in southern China? National scientific and technological teams join forces for consultation
The issue of heavy metal pollution in agricultural products concerns the safety of the people's food, and has become a focus of attention for the whole of society. On March 29, the launch meeting of the Innovation Action for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Heavy Metal Pollution in Rice in Southern China was held in Hunan, led and organized by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with the nation's most
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China's distant-water fishery annual output grew nearly 800-fold in 30 years
In 2014, the national total distant-water fishery output reached 2.03 million tons, an increase of nearly 800-fold compared with the annual output of 2,600 tons in the initial period of 1985; the total output value reached 18.5 billion yuan, more than 4,000 times that of the initial period. This is what the reporter learned from the Symposium on the 30th Anniversary of the Development of China's Distant-Water Fishery held here
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Small-packaged oil will become a new profit growth point for the grain and oil industry
Under the dual pressure of falling soybean prices and sluggish consumer demand, small-packaged oil at retail terminals has nevertheless been one of the few success stories. Xiwang Foodstuffs' recently launched sunflower seed oil and olive oil have seen rapid sales growth, with outstanding results. As consumption levels rise, the consumption of small-packaged oil
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Why is it hard for pineapple growers to make big money despite rising pineapple prices?
Recently, pineapples have finally fetched a good price, with the high price reaching 1.8 yuan per jin. On April 1, the author toured Xuwen County, a major pineapple-growing county, and found that although pineapple prices were good, the growers could not smile. Before the Spring Festival, Xuwen pineapples had already begun to be harvested, but pineapple prices had never been able to pick up,
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Don't Let Excessive Land Transfer Fees Undermine the Enthusiasm for Growing Grain
Editor's note: As the state encourages and supports the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale operators, family farms, and farmer cooperatives to develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, land transfer is in full swing across the country. However, rising transfer fees are continuously shrinking the profit margins of large grain-growing operators and other new types of business entities. While feeling the pressure, some have already been forced to give up growing grain and switch to other more profitable cash crops. How can the reasonable returns of these new types of grain-growing business entities be ensured? How can their enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? These questions are worth pondering.
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Vegetable Village Opens Field-Side Market, Making It Easier for Growers to Sell Their Produce
Pick on the way back, sell on return. A few minutes at the market is enough to learn prices and purchasing standards, without delaying farm work, and it also saves on transport costs. In early spring, Bao Qunyan, a vegetable grower from Gaogongzhuang Township, Wei County, Hebei, pulled a cartload of freshly harvested tomatoes to the field-side market at the entrance of his village.
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Who is growing the grain, and how is it grown?
Editor's note: The whole year's work depends on a good start in spring. Yet how many people understand the story behind the busy spring plowing and grain production? This is a reality that cannot be ignored: agricultural production costs are rising, and the prices of major agricultural products have hit the ceiling. Under this "double squeeze," who will farm the land?
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