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Green pesticides step into the spotlight, building a strong defense line for food safety
The exposure of toxic fruit and toxic vegetable incidents has aroused public concern about the dinner table, and calls for phasing out highly toxic pesticides are growing louder. The gradual elimination of highly toxic pesticides has opened up new market space for green pesticides. Faced with this development opportunity, the pesticide industry should step up product structure
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Farm input prices are stable with a slight decline, what else do farmers care about when farming?
Editor's note: In order to promptly understand the situation of spring farming preparations for major crops such as grain, cotton, oil and sugar, as well as the market supply and prices of farm inputs and prominent problems, the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, in mid-April, together with the information centers of the agriculture departments (commissions) of ten provinces (regions) including Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Shandong, Henan, Guang
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Policy-driven grain procurement, storage and sales in the spotlight
Reporters learned on the 28th from the National Grain Administration that the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Grain Administration, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank of China and other departments recently launched the 2015 joint departmental spot inspection of the nationwide grain inventory check. The various spot inspection working groups set out for the relevant provinces on the 26th.
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It's time to change the mindset of prioritizing production over marketing in agricultural products
To improve agricultural efficiency and enhance the competitiveness of agricultural products, it is necessary to build the entire industry chain. If there is only cultivation without processing, or processing without logistics, or only quantity without quality, then one cannot grasp pricing power, let alone market share. Recently,
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Wheat harvest has begun, this year's prices slightly lower than last year
It is reported that the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration of Grain and others announced on May 18 the "2015 Implementation Plan for the Minimum Purchase Price of Wheat and Rice." According to the plan, the minimum purchase price for white wheat, red wheat and mixed wheat is all 1.
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Grassland green-up period slightly earlier than usual across China this year
The Grassland Supervision Center of the Ministry of Agriculture monitored and analyzed grassland forage green-up conditions nationwide using ground observation, satellite remote sensing, and analysis combined with meteorological data. The results show that from March to May, temperatures in most grassland areas nationwide were normal to slightly high with abundant precipitation, and the water
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What does governance-driven drought teach us
In recent years, field surveys have often revealed the "last mile" problem: the state invests trillions of yuan in rural areas every year, building large water conservancy facilities, roads connecting villages, rural libraries and agricultural technology service stations, providing farmers with infrastructure and public services
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Severe Loss of Traditional Chinese Medicinal Material Resources: First-Ever Plan Expected to Solve the Problem
Not long ago, the "Plan for the Protection and Development of Chinese Medicinal Materials (2015-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") was released, proposing that Chinese medicinal materials are a unique and strategically significant precious resource of China, and that it is necessary to adhere to the combination of market leadership with government guidance, the combination of resource protection with industrial development, and the combination of increasing output with improving quality.
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Food production must never be treated lightly at any time
As China's economy enters a new normal, new changes and new characteristics have also emerged in the grain sector. In early January 2015, at the national grain circulation work conference convened by the State Administration of Grain, Ren Zhengxiao, director of the State Administration of Grain, described the 2014 grain market situation as "complex and intricate, with unprecedented pressure on purchasing and storage, and with arduous and heavy tasks for reform and development."
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Ecology plays an important role in rural development
Ecological civilization is a newly added dimension in the socialist civilization system proposed by our country, following material civilization, spiritual civilization, political civilization, and social civilization. The building of a new countryside corresponds to the entire civilization system. Among these, production development and comfortable living correspond to
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