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Both grow more grain and earn more money, increasing income through farming without neglecting either
The modern agricultural machinery cooperative in Anquan Village, Changsheng Township, Kedong County, Heilongjiang, has more than 32,000 mu of arable land. "In 2012, the grain-growing profit rate reached 30%, and in 2014 it fell to 19%." said He Yongdong, head of the cooperative. "Rising land rent is one of the important factors pushing up the cost of growing grain.
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Fertilizer and pesticide output grows in Q1
In Q1, the added value of the chemical industry grew 9.1% year on year, with the growth rate down 2.9 percentage points year on year. Among major products, ethylene output was 4.41 million tons, up 4.5%. Primary-form plastics output was 17.81 million tons, up 11.4%; synthetic rubber output was 1.23 million tons, down 7.3%; synthetic
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National Bureau of Statistics: Pesticide output in the first quarter close to zero growth
The latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, China produced a cumulative total of 890,560 tons of chemical pesticides, a year-on-year increase of only 0.02%, the lowest growth rate in recent years and close to zero growth. By product category, in the first quarter China produced a total of 474,390 tons of herbicides,
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How is the Zero Growth Action for Chemical Fertilizers being advanced? Cooperation between agricultural enterprises lends a hand
This website news: This year, the Department of Crop Production Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Sinochem Fertilizer Co., Ltd. carried out in-depth cooperation, innovated service mechanisms, explored new models of scientific fertilization, and achieved fertilizer reduction and efficiency improvement. A pilot for fertilizer reduction and efficiency improvement in corn was carried out in Northeast China. According to new-type operating
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How can the problem of sustainable income growth for farmers be solved?
Today is the second day in Xiangyuan. Together with Xuan Dafeng, director of the county agricultural machinery bureau, we went to Guhan Town to visit households. The villages we visited are in a typical gully region of the Loess Plateau, where the land is poorly leveled. Construction workers' incomes are falling. Soon, we arrived at the first
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Action Plan for Zero Growth in Chemical Fertilizer Use, Ministry of Agriculture Pushes Forward with Focus
On May 19, the Ministry of Agriculture held in Beijing a meeting on advancing and implementing the action plan for zero growth in chemical fertilizer use by 2020, to further implement the relevant requirements of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, unify thinking, and clarify tasks. The meeting emphasized that agricultural departments must fulfill their duties, take the initiative, and effectively put all
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Low profitability of soybean cultivation, farmers are not very motivated to grow soybeans
The third day of the survey, the sun was shining brightly. The survey team set off from Fujin, passed through Tongjiang, and finally arrived at Jiamusi. By interviewing local traders and farmers, we obtained first-hand information. In addition, the survey team members went deep into the fields and conducted an on-site
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The road of rural property rights trading grows ever wider
In the process of land circulation, what is most worrying? The state is most worried about farmland becoming "non-agricultural and non-grain", farmers are most afraid of their interests being harmed, and transferees are most afraid that their management rights will not be guaranteed. In order to give the state, farmers, and transferees peace of mind, in recent years, Hubei Wuhan
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Cotton farming weighed down by internal and external troubles: soon no one will grow it
This is the sentence that Du Min, a scientist in the economics post of the National Cotton Industry Technology System and a researcher at the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, has heard most and said most often recently. In recent years, China's cotton planting area has plummeted. According to the latest national cotton
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Why Rose Prices Swing Wildly: Growers Give Up Harvesting in Despair
"Someone got so furious that they drove an excavator into the rose field." Li Zhenhai, a villager from Xiaodoushan Village, Bajie Street, Anning City, Yunnan Province, told astonished reporters. During the recent edible rose harvest season, flower growers had a bumper crop but no bumper income. Prices fell from more than 30 yuan per kilogram
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