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Melon Cultivation Techniques and Management Knowledge, with a Detailed Explanation of Soilless Cultivation Methods
The main production areas in China are Xinjiang, Gansu and other northwestern regions. In recent years, in China's eastern and southern provinces, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Shanghai, Fujian, Zhejiang, Nanjing and other places, explorations have also been carried out one after another to move muskmelon cultivation to the southeast, and results have been achieved
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Green vegetables make their way to the dining tables of countless households
Chen Riyuan inspects the growth of seedlings in the experimental greenhouse. Vegetable research expert Chen Riyuan: Chen Riyuan, professor and doctoral supervisor at South China Agricultural University, as an agronomy expert who has long cultivated vegetable fields, Chen Riyuan operates numerous vegetable experimental sites and technology promotion bases in Dongguan, Foshan and even Guangxi, Yunnan,
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Farming is a subject with no end to learning
In the autumn of 2014, the grain harvest season. In Dongfeng Village, Yilong Town, Yi'an County, the old farmer Li Dajun and his son Li Sheng, when harvesting corn of the same area, the same variety and the same cultivation method, got different yields. One yielded less than 600 kg per mu, while the other yielded more than 80
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Smuggling of agricultural products: ever-changing tricks, endless devious schemes
In the small hours, in Tansan Village, Naliang Town, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi, on the China-Vietnam border, 30-year-old Tang Moumou was arrested at home by customs anti-smuggling police. He is suspected of smuggling Vietnamese rice into the country from a non-designated crossing point by way of "guaranteed cargo." And far to the north, in the coastal city of Dalian,
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Rural Grain Production: Mixed Blessings, Opportunities and Challenges Coexist
China's current agriculture, the overall development situation is good, farmers basically live and work in peace and contentment, and rural production and living conditions have been improved considerably. We visited Shayang County, a major grain and rapeseed county in Hubei Province (part of the "China Agricultural Valley" in Jingmen, Hubei
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China has less than 9% of the world's arable land, yet consumes one third of the world's chemical fertilizers
China's arable land accounts for 8%-9% of the world's arable land area, yet every year it consumes 35% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer. The abuse of chemical fertilizers not only leaves nitrogen oxide residues in agricultural products and degrades the ecology, but also directly worsens air and water pollution, and is one of the main sources of smog pollution. Legislation is urgently needed
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Harmless disposal of dead and diseased livestock and poultry must be basically achieved
On November 25, the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly held a teleconference on implementing the Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Establishing a Harmless Disposal Mechanism for Dead and Diseased Livestock and Poultry, comprehensively
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Boundless Practice and Exploration of Leisure Agriculture
Leisure agriculture is an instinctive, wise and inevitable journey of returning to one's roots, a behavior of self-adjustment and a cycle of mismatch between supply and demand after humanity moved from an agricultural society into an industrial society and an information society. In today's society, the world is flat and relationships are broad; when the marketing of a single specific product (point) follows the law of diminishing marginal returns, the industrial operation chain (line) can be traced upward to its source and extended downward to its end, the industrial and sectoral circle (plane) can be horizontally allied and vertically linked, and the industrial complex can circulate internally and integrate externally. This is the theoretical foundation of boundless leisure agriculture.
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Multiple measures for quality grain production show boundless vitality
Against the backdrop of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests domestically and cheap grain from the international market flooding into the domestic market, China's grain market seems to have entered a prolonged cold winter. The pattern of strong paddy but weak rice, and strong wheat but weak flour is becoming increasingly obvious, and very few grain processing enterprises are able to operate normally.
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Corn prices keep falling, but the truth is that Chinese farmers are still running a slight surplus
Introduction: Every year in August, it is the period when new domestic corn has not yet hit the market and the price of old corn rises slightly, but this year domestic corn prices have been sliding all the way down. On September 18, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments jointly issued a notice that starting in November, the state temporary storage corn listing purchase price will be set at 1 yuan per jin, 0.13 yuan per jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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