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Scaling up agriculture cannot focus only on land
China's basic national condition of a large population and little land determines that modern agriculture, on the issue of scaling up, cannot focus only on land; land can only be scaled up moderately, and efforts must be made in five aspects: industrial layout scaling, industrial chain scaling, organizational scaling, service scaling, and scaling of crop and livestock farming suited to factory production
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China's organic vegetable market is large, but farmers need to invest with caution
The 2015 China International Food Safety and Innovation Technology Exhibition opened in Beijing on June 11. The three-day exhibition attracted nearly a hundred companies, including well-known domestic and international enterprises such as COFCO, Zhonghe, and Nestle. At the exhibition, food companies, regardless of size,
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Large quantities of imported soybeans will arrive in China in the coming months
Analysts say China's soybean imports will rise further in the coming months, mainly because South American soybeans ordered earlier are arriving, which may put pressure on crushing margins. Data released by the General Administration of Customs show that soybean imports in May this year reached 6.13 million
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Winter wheat harvest begins across a large area of the Huang-Huai-Hai region
In the photo, farmers in Yingshang County are seizing favorable weather to rush in the wheat harvest. Photo by Wang Pengfei. In June, across the Jianghuai land, wheat waves roll and a scene of abundant harvest fills the fields. The reporter came to Fuyang City, Anhui Province, long known as the "tens-of-billions Jianghuai granary," where favorable weather is being seized to rush in the summer grain harvest.
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Continued progress in agricultural modernization drives substantial growth in demand for instruments
Developing ecological agriculture, water-saving agriculture, dryland agriculture, precision agriculture and plant protection creates a great demand for scientific instruments. Breeding new varieties of crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry with high quality, high efficiency, high yield and high resistance is likewise inseparable from scientific instruments. Agriculture requires analytical testing
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Large-scale farms are not suited to China's national conditions, says Han Jun
On May 17, at the 2015 Fourth China International Agribusiness Summit Forum held at the Beijing campus of the China Europe International Business School, Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, delivered a keynote speech on Chinese agriculture. Han Jun believes that the management rights of rural land should be liberalized, but forced land transfers by farmers must be prevented, and the one-sided pursuit of large-scale operations must be prevented; large-scale farms are not suited to China's national conditions.
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Vegetables Become Guangxi's Second Largest Crop
[Lead-in China Vegetable Network] The latest figures from the Guangxi Department of Agriculture show that Guangxi's vegetable planting area has reached 1.016 million hectares, breaking through 1 million hectares for the first time and becoming the second largest crop after rice. Guangxi is rich in light, temperature, water and soil resources and is known as
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China-Russia largest land port's fruit and vegetable exports exceeded $200 million last year
[ Introduction China Vegetable Network ] The reporter learned from the government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region that in 2015, the Manzhouli port, the largest land port between China and Russia, exported a total of 390,800 tons of fruits and vegetables, with a value of $205 million. According to the introduction, in 2015 the fruit export volume at Manzhouli port totaled
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Tianjin mushroom products supplied in large quantities for holiday tables
There is still more than a month until the Spring Festival, and right now is the peak period for harvesting Tianjin's assured-safety vegetables. At agricultural bases such as Duoxing Manor and Jifeng Vegetable Planting Cooperative in Jinghai District, farmers are busy harvesting every day. A mushroom farmer told reporters that all kinds of mushrooms are essential healthy ingredients on the Spring Festival dining table. Nowadays, more and more people are pursuing health and wellness. Fungi foods are highly nutritious, rich in protein, multiple vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, and have relatively low fat content, making them low-calorie foods, so they are especially popular. Take oyster mushrooms alone: in the past few days, several times more than usual have been harvested, and sales are very good.
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Why are strawberries still unsalable on a large scale after the rumors were refuted?
On April 26, a media outlet bought 8 samples of strawberries from the market and "detected acetochlor exceeding the standard," thereby concluding that strawberries "cause cancer," which triggered panic among consumers. On May 1, this newspaper published "Is 'Strawberry Pesticide Residue Exceeding the Standard Causes Cancer' True?", reporting that Beijing
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