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Spring Disease and Pest Control for a Bumper Harvest: Ministry of Agriculture Launches Special Action
According to monitoring by the National Major Crop Disease and Pest Forecasting Network, affected by the warm winter, the incidence base of diseases and pests on summer-harvest grain and oil crops such as wheat and rapeseed this year is higher than in normal years, and the occurrence time is earlier than in normal years. As temperatures rise, a variety of major diseases and pests will successively enter the peak period of occurrence and damage,
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Legume products as a staple food: Former Vice Minister of Agriculture says it will be considered in the future
Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, former Vice Minister of Agriculture, China's Permanent Representative to the UN Food and Agriculture Agencies. Yesterday morning, after attending a group discussion of the CPPCC, Niu Dun, member of the National Committee of the CPPCC and former Vice Minister of Agriculture, accepted an interview with The Beijing News and other media, discussing the issue of genetically modified organisms
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Supply of GM agricultural products will increase, says Vice Minister of Agriculture
On March 5, before the opening of the third session of the 12th National People's Congress, Niu Dun, Vice Minister of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with China Daily that China will increase the variety and quantity of GM agricultural products brought to market, and that GM foods approved for sale and consumption are safe and will not cause disease or cancer in humans.
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Ministry of Agriculture official answers reporters' questions at the NPC and CPPCC news center
On the afternoon of March 6, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong, and Chief Economist and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Agriculture Bi Meijia, answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters at the NPC and CPPCC news center on agricultural and rural economic development. What is the current food security situation? China's grain production capacity has stabilized at a relatively
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How can the Chinese medicinal herb industry achieve healthy development?
This January, the Ministry of Commerce issued the "Notice of Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a Modern Logistics System for Chinese Medicinal Herbs." The Notice requires local competent commerce departments to promote the establishment of a modern logistics system for Chinese medicinal herbs, advance the modernization of Chinese medicinal herb circulation, and enhance the quality and safety assurance capacity for Chinese medicinal herbs.
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More paddy fields in southwest China converted from water to dry land, undermining disaster resilience and the ecological environment
Paddy fields seen everywhere in southwest China are facing a crisis: more and more are being converted from water to dry land, more are being left abandoned, and their number keeps shrinking. This not only directly affects agricultural production but, more importantly, paddy fields in the southwest also serve as a huge water conservation area, and their destruction poses no small hidden risk to agriculture
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Land rights confirmation: no uniform pace, no one-size-fits-all approach
Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu recently stated that all localities should actively and steadily carry out the work of confirming, registering and certifying rural land contractual management rights, without seeking a uniform pace and without adopting a one-size-fits-all approach. Han Changfu made the remarks at a video conference on the confirmation, registration and certification of rural land contractual management rights jointly convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and five other departments on the 11th.
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Ministry of Agriculture Deploys Drought Relief and Spring Management Work, Strengthens Guidance and Services to Advance Scientific Drought Relief
"Start of Spring" has passed, and spring field management is unfolding from south to north. Since December last year, most of the northern winter wheat region has had no effective precipitation for more than 60 consecutive days, with temperatures 1-2°C higher than normal, and surface soil moisture in some wheat fields is poor, with signs of drought emerging. According to the China Meteorological Administration, in spring the temperature in the northern winter wheat region is expected to be close to or higher than the same period in normal years, and some areas may experience relatively severe spring drought. On February 13, the Ministry of Agriculture urgently deployed the current drought relief and spring management work, requiring all localities to conscientiously implement the spirit of the national video conference on spring field management and spring plowing preparations, with a high degree of self-awareness and firm confidence, base themselves on fighting disasters to secure a bumper harvest, strengthen responsibility and ensure implementation, and go all out to win the tough battle of drought relief and spring management, so as to gain the initiative for securing a summer grain harvest.
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No one-size-fits-all approach to land confirmation; localities not required to march in lockstep
Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said on the 11th that all localities should actively and steadily carry out the work of confirming, registering and certifying rural land contractual management rights, not seeking to march in lockstep and not resorting to a one-size-fits-all approach. Han Changfu made the remarks on the 11th at a video conference on the work of confirming, registering and certifying rural land contractual management rights, jointly convened by the Ministry of Agriculture and five other departments.
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2014 Agricultural Machinery Purchase Subsidy Policy Achievements Recognized by the Ministry of Finance
In 2014, driven by the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, the level of agricultural machinery equipment and agricultural machinery operations improved rapidly, new agricultural mechanization technologies were accelerated in their promotion and application, and farmers' enthusiasm for purchasing and using machinery ran high, providing strong equipment and technical support for achieving the "eleventh consecutive increase" in grain production and the "eleventh consecutive
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