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Analysis of China's Agricultural Policy: Agricultural Modernization amid Rural Hollowing Out and Poverty
There was originally no cultivated land in the world. Humanity, in order to survive, continuously reclaimed land and water surfaces to obtain agricultural products. Land that can reach high yields through land consolidation and irrigation construction is called usable land; land with high reclamation costs is called difficult-to-use land; land where crop cultivation has reached the world average yield is called utilized land. The ratio of utilized land to usable land is called agricultural land utilization rate, which reflects a country's land use situation and reserve potential.
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At present, China's potato planting area and output each account for one quarter of the world's total.
As the strategy of making potatoes a staple food quietly advances, the 2015 World Potato Congress was recently held in Yanqing, Beijing, where more than a thousand potato experts from 37 countries and regions gathered at the foot of the Badaling Great Wall. Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said that in China today, the potato industry will usher in a new period of rapid development, and the potato industry will become a witness to the improvement of China's modern agricultural level. The humble potato has met a new opportunity.
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China has the capacity to produce world-class, high-quality rice
On August 26, the 2015 China Premium Rice Development Symposium, hosted by the Chinese Cereals and Oils Association, was held in Harbin, bringing together experts from the Chinese Cereals and Oils Association, the China National Rice Research Institute, Henan University of Technology, Jiangnan University and the Satake Grain Analysis Center of Japan,
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China Becomes the World's Largest Producer and Consumer of Potatoes, Pushing Forward the Industrialization of Potatoes as a Staple Food
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing ever higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time - the potato is a major food that is nutritious and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat, and
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China's Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy Recognized by the World Organisation for Animal Health
On May 28, at the 7th plenary session of the 83rd International Congress of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), China's national foot-and-mouth disease control strategy was endorsed by the OIE, and OIE Director-General Dr. Vallat and Council President Dr. Karin presented the certificate to the Chinese delegation.
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Potatoes as a Staple Food: An Emerging Trend - How the Humble Potato Conquered the World
The pastries and snacks made with potato as the main ingredient are delicious and tempting. The potato, scientifically known as Solanum tuberosum, is the world's fourth-largest food crop. According to statistics from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world's total potato output in 2013 was 376 million tons. With the establishment in recent years of China's strategy to make potatoes a staple food, China's potato planting area reached 5.57 million hectares in 2014, with fresh potato output of more than 95 million tons; both the area and the output account for about one quarter of the world's total, and China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes.
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China's per capita dairy consumption is 1/3 of the world average
Gu Jicheng, secretary-general of the China Dairy Association, said recently that China is already a major country in global dairy production, processing and consumption, but its per capita dairy consumption level remains relatively low, at about 1/2 of the Asian average and 1/3 of the world average. Gu Jicheng that day at the fourth Dairy Cow
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Dendrobium officinale: The Industrial Development Path of the "Immortal Herb" of the Mortal World
From folk legend and unattainable rarity to sweeping across coastal cities and developed regions, from scattered collection to attracting numerous listed companies such as CONBA, Bright Food, and Tianmushan to step in, industrialized cultivation has taken shape across various regions. Over the past 20-plus years, Dendrobium officinale has continued to rise in attention, and has been
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China's fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world total
Fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world's total. Qian Keming, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chief Economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that as the economy enters a new normal, the internal and external environment for China's agricultural development is also undergoing profound changes. In the future, we can no longer pursue a "twelfth consecutive increase," or even a "twentieth consecutive increase," and must accelerate the transformation and upgrading of agriculture. Qian Keming said that China's annual fertilizer use accounts for 35% of the world's total, equivalent to the sum of the United States and India; the pesticide utilization rate is only 35%, 10-20 percentage points lower than developed countries. Overall, the marginal returns on China's agricultural inputs have clearly declined, the environmental capacity is approaching its limit, resource constraints are tightening further, and the original development model is already difficult to sustain.
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China's fruit production accounts for nearly one quarter of the world's total output
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 24 (Reporter Lin Hui) During the Spring Festival, people's dining tables cannot do without all kinds of fresh fruits. A reporter learned from the China Fruit Marketing Association that China's fruit production accounts for nearly one quarter of the world's total output, making it a veritable major producer, but due to
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