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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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China's Largest Water Conservancy Project This Year Begins Construction, to Supply Water for 4.82 Million People
Economic Daily News (Reporter Huang Junyi) The North Hubei Water Resources Allocation Project has officially begun construction. It is understood that this is the largest major water conservancy project in terms of investment in China this year, and once completed it will fundamentally solve the problem of drought and water shortage in the "drought-prone" areas of northern Hubei. The project's total
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Ministry of Agriculture: Striving for Winter and Spring Vegetable Self-Sufficiency in Large and Medium-Sized Cities in Northern China by 2020
On October 22, the Ministry of Agriculture held an on-site meeting on facility vegetable production in northern China in Chaoyang, Liaoning. The meeting proposed that, on the basis of coordinating the development of winter facility vegetables in northern cities with the construction of bases for transporting vegetables from the south to the north, efforts should be made to achieve winter and spring vegetable self-sufficiency in large and medium-sized cities in northern China by 2020.
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What path should be taken to make rural areas larger and farmers fewer?
The urban-rural dual structure is an inevitable result of China's urbanization development and resource allocation. Because cities produce more and rural areas produce less. Farmers increasingly rely on working in cities, resulting in quieter rural areas and more bustling cities. Why is it so hard for farmers to make a living in rural areas?
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Agricultural e-commerce suffers widespread losses, yet internet giants remain optimistic
Recently, the agriculture-related e-commerce company Yimutian has frequently been thrust into the spotlight of public opinion due to news such as "data too good to be true, accused of falsification." A report claims that among the thousands of agricultural product e-commerce companies nationwide, 95% are operating at a loss, which has triggered public doubts about agriculture-related e-commerce. However, major internet
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How Can Small-Scale Land Contracting Move Toward Large-Scale Management?
Land trusteeship is a model in which, while keeping farmers' land use rights unchanged, farmers' status as operating entities unchanged, and farmers' status as beneficiaries unchanged, new types of operating entities such as farmers' cooperatives and large grain growers, in accordance with farmers' requirements, exercise unified management and unified services over their contracted land.
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How can hundreds of millions of farming households break out of land transfer and transition smoothly to large-scale farming?
The heart that had been hanging in midair finally settled into place. Dai Yasheng was very satisfied with the experts' on-site yield measurement results: on plots where joint ploughing and joint planting was carried out, this year's wheat yield per mu was above a thousand jin, which was a delightful surprise. The plot owner said this field had previously been leveled from a crab pond, and the subsoil was poor, so such a harvest was unexpected.
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Agricultural production enters a new stage of appropriately expanding scale
China's economy completed the crossing of the Lewis turning point (the turning point from labor surplus to labor shortage) during 2004-2010. After a country's economy crosses the Lewis turning point, the relationship of relative scarcity between capital and labor undergoes a fundamental change, and an
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Large-scale farming profits rely entirely on subsidies and rewards, with hidden traps
Does large-scale agriculture necessarily bring economies of scale? In many people's understanding, this is hardly even a question, but the facts are not so. While too small a planting scale certainly makes it hard to earn much profit, too large a planting scale may also yield false profits. So-called false profits
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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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