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Nantong City, Jiangsu, Solidly Advances the Introduction of New Varieties
In order to accelerate the renewal rate of new varieties and serve Nantong's agricultural production, the Nantong City Seed Management Station directly introduced a record number of new crop varieties in 2015. In 2015, the Nantong City Seed Management Station organized the introduction of 125 crop varieties of various types (96 last year), and organized intermediate trials at 39 (36 last year) site-times; among these, for spring and summer sown crops - rice, corn, cotton, watermelon, spring soybean, and summer soybean - there were 41 new varieties and 24 trial site-times; for autumn sown barley and wheat there were 14 varieties and 7 trial site-times, and for rapeseed there were 70 varieties and 8 trial site-times.
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Space breeding yields remarkable results, as space seeds bear abundant fruit
On December 18, in the atrium of a shopping mall in Xinjiekou, Nanjing, Jiangsu, a newly opened space launcher return capsule displayed a bizarre world of fruits and vegetables: a "steel pumpkin" weighing more than 200 jin, "long-legged green peppers" with an astonishing vitamin content, colorful "mighty little tomatoes," ice-cream-textured fiber-free "kung fu watermelons"...
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Vegetable prices in Huai'an, Jiangsu continue to rise for two weeks, with high-priced vegetables dominating
Vegetable prices in the urban area of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province rose modestly for a second consecutive week. Yesterday, monitoring data from the Municipal Price Monitoring Center showed that the average price of the 32 kinds of vegetables monitored in the urban area rose slightly by 0.7 percentage points last week, with the current price at about 3.5 yuan/500 grams. Judging from recent trends, affected by earlier rain and snow weather, vegetable prices in the urban area are currently in a relatively stable period after climbing to a high level.
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Space breeding delivers remarkable results, as space seeds bear abundant fruit
On December 18, in the atrium of a shopping mall at Xinjiekou in Nanjing, Jiangsu, a newly opened space launcher return capsule displays a bizarre world of fruits and vegetables: a "steel pumpkin" weighing over 200 jin, "long-legged green peppers" with an astonishing vitamin content, colorful "mighty tomato babies", and fiber-free "kung fu watermelons" with an ice cream texture
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Developing edible fungi accelerates the pace of income growth for farmers in Shizhai Town, Feng County, Jiangsu
In recent years, Shizhai Town in Feng County, Jiangsu, based on increasing farmers' income and improving agricultural efficiency, has vigorously developed the edible fungi industry, among which the wood ear mushroom industry has especially flourished. By 2015, the whole town had grown 250 million bags of wood ear mushrooms, with total revenue of 250 million yuan and per capita net income of more than 3,000 yuan, and was
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Fake and substandard agricultural supplies are targeting left-behind elderly people - how can we prevent this?
Recently, Hongze County in Jiangsu heard a case involving fake and substandard agricultural supplies that cheated and harmed farmers. The criminal suspect is suspected of the crime of producing and selling substandard pesticides, mixing chemical fertilizer with water to make fake pesticides and boasting them as a "special-effect medicine" that could treat rice blast, selling them specifically to defraud left-behind elderly people.
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Guannan, Jiangsu Edible Fungus Project Wins Provincial 2014-2015 Agricultural Harvest Award
Recently, the Jiangsu Provincial Commission of Agriculture announced the winners of the 2014-2015 Jiangsu Provincial Agricultural Harvest Award. The project "Research, Promotion and Application of Key Technologies for Large-Scale Safe Production of Edible Fungi", led by the Guannan Vegetable Office, won the second prize of the Agricultural Harvest Award.
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Seed producers gain the upper hand in connecting to the market
In the hinterland of Jiangdu, Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province, rice waves roll in the fields with the breeze, and the rice ears bow their full heads; in another ten days or so they can be harvested and stored. Xiaoji Town, a key central town of Jiangsu Province, is also the improved seed breeding base of Jiangsu Jintudi Seed Industry Co., Ltd.
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What should you pay attention to when introducing pear tree varieties? Remember these four points
In recent years, in the course of agricultural structural adjustment, Haimen City, Jiangsu Province, has taken pear tree cultivation as an important lever for becoming prosperous, promoting the planting of more than 8,000 mu of high-quality pears and achieving good returns. In pear tree cultivation, variety introduction is key. According to the experience of Haimen City, pear tree introduction should
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When do cherries ripen in Wuxi
Wuxi is located in the southern part of Shen in Jiangsu, below the Yangtze River Delta Plain, and is a famous land of fish and rice with abundant produce. So when do Wuxi cherries ripen? Where can you go to pick them? When do Wuxi cherries ripen? Wuxi cherries generally ripen from late April to June each year
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