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Vegetable area and output both increase this year, Ministry of Agriculture reports
It was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture: since the beginning of this year, the production of "shopping basket" products has generally shown a momentum of steady progress, and the development of the new round of the "shopping basket" project has generally shown a good momentum of steady and relatively rapid growth. By strengthening quality supervision and improving production-marketing coordination, the Ministry of Agriculture has effectively ensured the safe and effective supply of major "shopping basket" products and the stable operation of the market.
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High-Yield Creation Lets Smallholder Grain Growers Join Forces into a Fist
On the afternoon of September 22, in the stretch of rice paddies in Chunhua Mountain Village, Chunhua Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province, Wang Guisan, head of the Wawulong group, and farmers managing irrigation were checking the water-saturation of the rice. The seedlings were already knee-high and it was exactly the grain-filling stage, so Wang Guisan was especially attentive.
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Grain Price Inversion Leads to Surge in Grain Imports: Farmers Cannot Sell the Grain They Grow
Grain Won't Sell, Grain Farmers Want to Cry but Have No Tears: Does China Have Too Much Grain? Author: Gao Yuanzhi, Zhou Mian, Wu Tao Source: Banyuetan Website Editor: Yuan Bixia Editor's Note: At present, China's grain production and grain market have some puzzling aspects: on the one hand, grain
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Corn prices are falling, don't let farmers' hearts grow cold
Recently, the author learned through a rural survey in Neihuang County that the drop in corn prices was beyond people's expectations. Over the past five years, when new corn came onto the market, the price per jin was mostly between 1.1 yuan and 1.2 yuan. This year it has fallen to 0.9 yuan, and even at this price it is still hard to sell.
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How to Break the Growth Bottleneck of New-Type Business Entities
To cultivate new-type agricultural business entities, transform the agricultural development model, improve the overall efficiency and market competitiveness of agriculture, and advance the rapid development of modern agriculture, the problems of capital, land and mechanisms must be effectively solved. First, small enterprises face difficulties in obtaining loans and financing. In new-type agricultural
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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Interpreting 5 years of farmer income growth data: the key to a moderately prosperous society lies with rural folk
Not long ago, farmer Xie Suxia of Baolin Village, Jiangtai Township, Xiji County, Guyuan, Ningxia, got a new job sorting vegetables at a vegetable base near the village, and this job increased her monthly income by 2400 yuan. General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "To know whether we have achieved moderate prosperity, the key is to look at rural folk." Ten
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13th Five-Year Plan: Agriculture's Main Focus Is Modernization, No Longer Simply Pursuing Output Growth
As the primary industry, agriculture faces a population numbering in the hundreds of millions. In the five years of the 13th Five-Year Plan, China's agriculture must achieve new advances in both "quantity" and "quality." A very important idea here is to no longer simply pursue continuous growth in grain "output," but instead to develop agricultural modernization, improve efficiency, and keep pace with China's modernization.
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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Five ministries tackle rural food safety: zero growth in pesticide use by 2020
Image source: CFP Recently, in order to vigorously address and solve prominent rural food safety problems and safeguard the safety of the food on the tables of the rural masses, the Food Safety Office of the State Council, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the State Food and Drug Administration, issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Rural Food
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