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Total agricultural irrigation water use has seen zero growth for 14 consecutive years
On the 14th, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources news briefing: the construction of farmland water conservancy is continuously accelerating, China's effective irrigated farmland area has reached 952 million mu, of which the area of water-saving irrigation projects has reached 407 million mu. Farmland irrigation efficiency continues to improve, and the effective utilization coefficient of irrigation water has reached
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Corn import trend set to slow, feed output growth to decelerate over next 10 years
According to an official forecast report released by China's Ministry of Agriculture, China's soybean imports in 2024 are expected to reach 82.66 million tons, up 15.8% from the 2014 import volume. However, over the next 10 years China is expected to net import only small quantities of rice, wheat and corn. China's Ministry of Agriculture
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Ministry of Agriculture forecasts China's grain output to grow 0.6% annually
Rice can achieve self-sufficiency; imports basically remain stable. The report notes that rice is currently China's second-largest grain crop. After China's rice output surpassed 200 million tons in 2011, it reached a record high of 206.43 million tons in 2014; domestic rice market prices were stable with slight increases.
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Rural internet consumption growth prospects are viewed favorably
On April 16, the "2015 Consumer Market Development Report" released by the Research Institute of the Ministry of Commerce pointed out that this year China's consumption-driven development model will be basically established, and consumption growth rate, structure, hotspots, driving forces, etc. will undergo corresponding changes. The consumption rate will exceed 50% for the first time, ranking
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Domestic Cotton Prices Enter a Low-Price Era as Cotton Farmers Abandon Cotton Growing
Right now is the season for raising cotton seedlings, but affected by the decline in cotton purchase prices, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting cotton in some major cotton-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has generally declined. Many cotton fields have been converted to other crops or left fallow, and some fields have even been planted with trees.
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Capital flowing to the countryside generally does not grow grain: three major difficulties behind it
Regarding the phenomenon noted by China Youth Daily reporters during interviews in Xingtai, Handan and other places, that capital going to the countryside has the strength to compete for land but not the ability to farm it, He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and doctoral supervisor, said this situation is not uncommon nationwide.
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High risk of lodging in the late growth stage of wheat this year
This spring, the wheat green-up stage was generally threatened by drought, and during the standing-up to jointing stage, all localities actively carried out irrigation. In addition, around the jointing stage there was weather with excessive rainfall, higher temperatures and reduced sunlight, causing the basal stems of wheat after jointing, especially the first
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International Soy Growers Alliance Lobbies China to Approve Genetically Modified Varieties
On April 21, at the 2015 Biotechnology and Global Soy Trade Forum held in Beijing by the International Soy Growers Alliance (ISGA), a 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned through an interview that the International Soy Growers Alliance will communicate with China's Ministry of Agriculture, hoping that China's policy authorities
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China's forestry output value grows 22% annually, forest product output value exceeded 4 trillion yuan last year
Since 2001, China's total forestry output value has maintained a high growth rate of 22% annually. In 2014, the output value share of the secondary and tertiary forestry industries reached 66%, industrial quality has continued to improve, total forest product exports reached 140 billion USD, and the forestry industry has benefited 450 million farmers. This is what the reporter learned from
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Why are cotton farmers abandoning cotton? Some plots have been converted to growing trees
Right now is precisely the season for raising cotton seedlings, but, affected by the decline in cotton purchase prices, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting cotton in some of the main cotton-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has generally declined, quite a few cotton fields have been converted to other crops or left fallow, and in some fields trees have even been planted.
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