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Crack Down Hard on Grain Smuggling to Safeguard National Food Security
In 2014, customs authorities nationwide carried out a one-year special campaign against agricultural product smuggling known as "Green Wind," concentrating efforts on combating and addressing illegal and criminal activities involving smuggled agricultural products, and achieving positive results. Grain is an important strategic
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How did the potato take the path to becoming a staple food? It was already introduced to China 400 years ago
In early 2015, the potato, known scientifically as Solanum tuberosum, suddenly became a hot topic. At a seminar titled "Strategy for Developing Potatoes as a Staple Food," officials from the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the coming years, China would launch a strategy to make potatoes a staple food, and the potato would become another staple food after rice, wheat, and corn.
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Just How Heavy Is the Weight of the Provincial Governor Responsibility System for Food Security?
Increasing local enthusiasm for grain production and fully implementing the provincial governor responsibility system for food security is an important manifestation of new thinking for further strengthening the capacity to guarantee food security in the new era. Mobilizing local enthusiasm for grain production and strengthening the territorial responsibility for food security is
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Rice imports multiply as Chinese consumers worry about food contamination
After infant formula and New Zealand milk, Japanese rice has begun to become one of the items that Chinese consumers buy in large quantities from abroad at high prices, and reports say this is mainly driven by Chinese consumers' worries about contamination in domestic rice. China's rice imports have multiplied
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Ensuring Food Security: Strategic Thinking under the New Normal
China's economic and social development has entered a new period. Under the new normal, the strategic thinking on China's food security needs to change, mainly including the following aspects: 1. The concept and goals of food security. It is suggested to abolish the traditional concept of grain, exclude soybeans from grain
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Stabilizing Grain Output and Increasing Income Are the Twin Bottom Lines of Food Security
It is another bumper harvest year. According to statistics, in 2014 China's grain production achieved an "eleventh consecutive increase," reaching 1.2 trillion jin for two consecutive years. Although the situation is encouraging, the recently released Central No. 1 Document still, as always, puts food security in first place, clearly proposing "stabilizing grain output and increasing income"
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How to ensure food security in a bumper harvest year? Accelerate reform of the rural property rights system
An abundant harvest of all grains, granaries full of grain, farmers overjoyed. In 2014, the major agricultural province of Heilongjiang achieved another bumper grain harvest, realizing eleven consecutive years of increase, with an estimated total output of 135.2 billion jin, continuing to rank first nationwide, with its increase accounting for nearly 50% of the national total increase, and farmers' per capita income surpassing 10,000 yuan
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Why Promote the Staple-ization of Potatoes After Eleven Consecutive Years of Grain Increases
Recently, some media interviewed a scholar who has long paid attention to food security regarding the staple-ization of potatoes, which is a matter of public concern, and the scholar believes: this indicates that our country's grain reserves must have encountered problems. It is just that the central government does not say so explicitly and covers up the problem. Such a major issue concerning the national economy and people's livelihood
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Food security urgently needs a new supply structure
Food is the foundation of the national economy, and food security bears on the overall stability of the country, while guaranteeing food security ultimately depends on food production. As the trends of "part-time farming" and "de-grainization" become increasingly pronounced, the issue of food security has become an important issue for China's future development.
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