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Strawberries unsold amid cancer-causing acetochlor exceedance scare; prices fall in many places
Although the claim that strawberries had excessive acetochlor residues was later refuted by authoritative test results and industry experts, the earlier reports that "strawberry acetochlor residues exceeding the limit cause cancer" spread widely and quickly led to unsold strawberries in several major strawberry-producing areas, with prices falling sharply and growers and traders suffering serious losses.
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E-commerce is deep water with many risks; enter with caution
This Monday, I heard from a friend that a certain water-soluble fertilizer factory wants to build an e-commerce platform. Beyond my surprise, I also started pondering: why would such a small fertilizer enterprise also want to build an agricultural materials e-commerce platform? Could it be that this boss made the decision on a whim? Of course, I am not
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Fine, sunny weather in many parts of northern China helps speed up wheat harvest progress
The wheat harvest has advanced from the southwest northward to northern Henan and southern Shandong. More than 45% of the national winter wheat has been harvested, and winter wheat in northern China is at the peak of harvest. From June 5-8, most of the northern wheat harvest areas had fine weather conducive to winter wheat maturation, harvest and drying; most of the winter wheat areas in northwest and north China had suitable water and heat conditions, conducive to winter wheat grain filling.
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Why should the market-oriented reform of chemical fertilizers be accelerated? Multiple factors jointly decide
The market-oriented reform of chemical fertilizers is an irresistible trend. In July 2005, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Plan for Reforming and Improving the Chemical Fertilizer Price Regulation Mechanism (Draft)", which explicitly proposed adhering to the orientation of market-oriented reform. However, due to the influence of multiple factors, the current market-oriented progress of chemical fertilizers
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Agricultural water crisis remains unsolved, and a comprehensive plan is still lacking
Groundwater over-extracted for many years has left the North China Plain, one of China's main grain-producing regions, facing a water shortage crisis. On one hand, there is an increasingly scarce and precious water source; on the other hand, there is the real pressure of safeguarding the Chinese people's "grain bag" security. As a major water consumer, how should agriculture
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How many hurdles must the potato clear to go from vegetable to staple food
On the plate it is a vegetable, in the bowl it is a staple food; for the tiny potato to make its counterattack transformation, how many hurdles must it still clear? In 2014, China's potato planting area and output each accounted for about 1/4 of the world's total, making it already the world's largest producer and consumer. This year, China launched the strategy for the development of potato staple food products and the industry, taking the potato, which is "water-saving, fertilizer-saving, pesticide-saving and labor-saving" to grow and nutritionally "perfect in every way," as a supplement to the three major staple foods of corn, rice and wheat for related product development.
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Can you eat off-season fruits and vegetables? Read this and you will understand
Today, many people who pursue an organic lifestyle strongly emphasize one phrase: eat only what is in season. For example, eat loquats in spring, watermelon in summer, apples in autumn, and radishes in winter. They believe that off-season fruits and vegetables are very likely grown using some kind of chemical method
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Why Plastic Mulch Is Hard to Recycle: The Problem Lies in the Mulch Itself
After more than 30 years of development and application, plastic mulch coverage has become one of the most important agronomic techniques in our country, and in the northwest region it has even created a situation in which agricultural production cannot be carried out without plastic mulch coverage. At present, on the one hand, plastic mulch coverage has been incorporated into national and local agricultural
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How exactly is strong-gluten wheat forged?
Many people in Henan do not know that before Li Keqiang took charge of Henan, the wheat we grew could only be made into steamed buns and noodles; after that, wheat not only became a calling card of Henan's agricultural innovation, but also linked up a "soft gold" industrial chain. Developing agriculture
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Corn temporary storage price cut for the first time in 7 years, many farmers holding onto their grain and waiting
In 2014, the state launched a pilot program of target price subsidies for soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia and for cotton in Xinjiang, abolishing the original temporary storage policy and letting the market determine the prices of these two types of agricultural products. Just one year after this policy was piloted, the
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