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Eleventh Consecutive Grain Increase May Involve Deception, Technological Yield Gains Increasingly Difficult
The National Bureau of Statistics issued a notice on December 4, stating that the national total grain output in 2014 reached 607.099 million tons, an increase of 5.16 million tons over 2013. China's total grain output achieved an eleventh consecutive increase. Another grain increase should be good news. However, as soon as the news came out, it triggered numerous doubts.
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Growing Grain Can Be Profitable Too: A Large-Scale Grain Farmer Shares His Tips for Boosting Income
Everyone says growing grain does not make money, but last year I made a net profit of five or six hundred yuan per mu! Taking stock of the harvest at year's end, Yu Jialong, the only national-level large-scale grain farmer in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province last year, was beaming with joy. Yu Jialong is 45 years old and lives in Nandatan Village, Gaodu Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. Growing 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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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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What are the technical paths for reducing chemical fertilizer use and increasing its efficiency?
On March 17 this year, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed striving to achieve zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on major crops by 2020. The key to achieving this goal is to grasp well the "precision, adjustment, improvement and substitution": advancing precision fertilization, adjusting the structure of chemical fertilizer application, improving fertilization methods
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Why does reducing fertilizer use and increasing efficiency in agriculture not affect food security?
Chemical fertilizers have made an indelible contribution to China's consecutive years of agricultural harvests, but as chemical fertilizer use in China has increased, its efficiency in boosting crop yields has been declining, and it has even brought impacts on the ecological environment. In fact, reducing fertilizer use, especially for cash crops such as vegetables and fruits,
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Initial results achieved in the research on green yield-increasing models for rapeseed
The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are an important rapeseed production area in China. In recent years, in accordance with the deployment and requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture for carrying out regional research on yield-increasing models, the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture, together with the agricultural departments of Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Sichuan and other provinces, has strengthened collaboration and jointly carried out research, with Fu Tingdong
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The integration of livestock industry development with internet technology is becoming increasingly close
With the popularization and rapid development of the internet and mobile internet, every industry is quietly undergoing changes. The ancient and traditional livestock industry is continuously being tempered and developed alongside internet platforms, and "Internet Plus" will become the next source of momentum for the transformation and upgrading of China's livestock industry
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A bumper summer grain harvest is expected again, gaining the initiative for stabilizing grain and increasing income this year
Report from this website: At present, more than 80 percent of the summer grain in the Southwest region has been harvested, and the Huang-Huai-Hai winter wheat area has begun large-scale harvesting. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's agricultural situation monitoring and experts' on-site investigations and analysis, if no large-scale disasters such as dry hot winds or lodging occur later, this year's summer grain is expected to again achieve a bumper harvest.
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Fruit tree landscaping nursery stock sales market is increasingly hot
This year fruit tree landscaping saplings are selling really well. A few days ago I still moved 15,000 cherry saplings." said Zhang Jiachao, a veteran nursery stock broker in Daxinzhuang Town, Dingzhou City. After the start of spring, he took quite a few orders for purchasing fruit tree landscaping nursery stock. The reporter learned that this spring in the central Hebei area, cher
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