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Conditions for Making Potatoes a Staple Food Are Ripe, but Concerns Over Price Fluctuations Remain
At a seminar recently held by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, advancing potatoes to become China's fourth-largest staple food crop was publicly proposed from a national strategic perspective for the first time, and it has also become a focus of heated public discussion in recent days. As of January 10, on Sina Weibo alone, views of the topic "potatoes become a staple food" had
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How Land Development Can Make Farmers the Beneficiaries
The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council jointly issued the "Opinions on the Pilot Work of Reforming the Rural Land Expropriation, Market Entry of Collective Operational Construction Land, and the Homestead System." The core goal of the reform is the market entry of agricultural land, including: exploring and improving procedures and standards
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Growing Grain Can Be Profitable Too: A Large-Scale Grain Farmer Shares His Tips for Boosting Income
Everyone says growing grain does not make money, but last year I made a net profit of five or six hundred yuan per mu! Taking stock of the harvest at year's end, Yu Jialong, the only national-level large-scale grain farmer in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province last year, was beaming with joy. Yu Jialong is 45 years old and lives in Nandatan Village, Gaodu Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. Growing grain
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Turning Potatoes into a Staple Grain: Variety Selection Comes First
To make the potato a staple grain, whether it is turned into steamed buns and noodles on the dining table, or into reserve grain and emergency grain in the national grain depots, the potato must first be "transformed" into potato flour. So, can all potatoes be processed into potato flour? What kind of po
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Why did Yuan Longping say: If you want to make money, don't go into agriculture?
If you want to make money, don't go into agriculture. Yuan Longping, 84 years old, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and father of Chinese hybrid rice, spoke frankly when answering reporters' questions at the Sanya Finance International Forum that doing agriculture requires preparation for long-term commitment, that making money in agriculture is not easy, and that it requires even more
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Millet Grown in the Desert: Saving Water and Making Money
On January 13, Lin Xinghui, Party secretary of Menggentala Gacha in Barunbieli Town, Alxa Left Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, made a special trip to Beijing. He wanted to see with his own eyes his own desert millet launched on the e-commerce platform COFCO Womai. With a sales channel, this year's millet harvest
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How does land transfer benefit everyone?
A few days ago, Yang Jun, a farmer from Jianli, Hubei, who works as a dim sum chef in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, invited his parents to Hangzhou to help out at his bun shop. My wife and I have worked in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for 10 years, and the bun shop business is quite good. We have long wanted my parents to come and help, but they just could not bear to part with
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Family Farm Development Makes Farming a Respectable Profession
Songjiang District is a historically famous major agricultural county. After the reform and opening up, Songjiang's industrialization and urbanization entered the fast lane, achieving the transformation from a traditional major agricultural county to a major industrial district, with comprehensive economic strength and urban functions significantly enhanced, and the district's agricultural output value and grain
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How can agricultural machinery make a fresh push after the golden decade?
Recently, the Management Cadre College of the Ministry of Agriculture held the second national rotation training class of this year for directors of major agriculture, animal husbandry and fishery counties, with 115 participants including agricultural machinery directors from national demonstration counties for full mechanization of major crops, as well as cadres from the Ministry of Agriculture system. This rotation training organized a total of special
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New urbanization should drive rural prosperity and development
Zhaoshipan Town, Hengshan County, Shaanxi Province, a village called Gedi Cave in Tuoxiang Village, covering nearly 2 sq km, originally home to more than 30 households and over 200 villagers. Now the people are gone and the village is empty, more than 500 mu of farmland lie waste, and only Wang Minghou and Gao Shenghua, a couple in their 50s, remain here
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