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Luoyang, Henan: Soilless Lettuce Commands a High Price
On January 19, technicians at Luoyang Luojian Agricultural Co., Ltd. in Luoyang City were observing the growth of soilless lettuce. The company uses soilless hydroponic technology to grow organic vegetables such as lettuce and pearl tomatoes, without using any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The price per kilogram of lettuce
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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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Garlic prices surge again, yet trading volume drops noticeably
Take Beijing as an example: in June, the average wholesale price of garlic at the Xinfadi market was 2.5-3.2 yuan per jin, a full doubling compared with two months earlier. Right now is the peak season for vegetables coming onto the market, and oversupply has pushed down the prices of most vegetables. Yet there is
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Why is China's wheat becoming less and less internationally competitive? The Ministry of Agriculture responds
Seven major trends in the development of China's wheat industry. In recent years, new changes have emerged in the development of China's wheat industry, and these sustained changes will directly alter the development model of China's wheat industry and deserve close attention. Specifically, they are mainly manifested in the following seven major trends
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Is environmental tree planting really beneficial with no harm? These impacts you need to know
Nowadays, regarding the protection of the ecological environment and natural resources, people seem to have transformed the concept of "planting greenery on Arbor Day" into "not only planting trees but also protecting greenery." There are calls to gradually change the calculation of "forest coverage rate" to the calculation of "wild grass coverage rate." When many people mention environmental protection, they think of planting
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Targeted poverty alleviation must root out the causes of poverty in governance
As the second National "Poverty Relief Day" approaches, "inaccurate" poverty alleviation has become a hot topic of recent discussion. A notice from the National Audit Office shows that in Mashan County, Guangxi, 3,119 people did not meet the criteria for poverty registration, of whom 343 were financially supported by the government, and 2,454 had also purchased
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How Can Agriculture in Mountainous Areas Develop? Lessons and Insights from Home and Abroad
China is a country of many mountains, with mountainous areas accounting for nearly 70% of the national land area. How exactly should agriculture in mountainous areas (especially poor inland regions) develop? Carefully studying and summarizing the successful experiences of agricultural development in mountainous areas at home and abroad, especially in areas surrounding China, has
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Selling Grain Is Hard, Stacked on Top of Debt-Financed Farming: China's Grain Subsidies Are Less Than One-Tenth of Europe's and America's
Economic Observer reporter Jiang Yunzhang: Wheat is falling, corn is falling too. This year's grain prices are truly baffling! A bumper grain harvest is normally a happy occasion, but Liang Yukui (pseudonym), a large-scale grain farmer in the Yunan area of Henan Province, cannot bring himself to feel glad at all. In previous years, in response to
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Why is the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China less than 50%?
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said on the 23rd that due to the massive use of chemical fertilizers, insufficient rural environmental protection investment and other factors, composting is becoming increasingly rare in rural areas, and the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China is now below 50%. Zhang Taolin made the remarks at the 2015 International Composting Conference
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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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