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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ministry of Agriculture Reports 23 Seed-Related Legal Violation Cases
In 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the Ministry of Public Security and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, organized and carried out a special campaign against infringement of variety rights and the production and sale of counterfeit and inferior seeds. Through innovative mechanisms and multiple measures, they cracked down hard on illegal activities such as the production and sale of counterfeit and inferior goods, unlicensed production, and the promotion of unauthorised varieties. According to statistics
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Typical Cases of Fake and Inferior Agricultural Materials: The Ministry of Agriculture Announces 13 Cases
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that in 2014, agricultural departments across the country earnestly fulfilled their leading responsibility for cracking down on fake agricultural materials, and together with public security and other departments severely cracked down on illegal acts of producing and selling fake and inferior agricultural materials, effectively safeguarding farmers' lawful rights and interests and effectively guaranteeing that year's grain harvest and the quality and safety of agricultural products
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How is the autumn grain procurement progressing? The National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration reports on the main producing areas
According to statistics, as of March 10, various grain enterprises in 14 main producing areas of mid-to-late indica rice, including Hubei and Anhui, had purchased a cumulative total of 28.21 million tons of newly produced mid-to-late indica rice, a decrease of 1.52 million tons from the same period last year; various grain enterprises in 7 main producing areas of japonica rice, including Heilongjiang and Jilin, had purchased a cumulative total of newly produced
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