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Do tea leaves have pesticide residues? Should you discard the first infusion?
Pesticides are now found everywhere on agricultural products, and even tea leaves contain pesticides. Some people discard the first infusion when brewing tea, pouring it away and not drinking it. Is this correct? How can you reduce the chance of ingesting pesticides when drinking tea? Director of the Tea Research and Extension Station of the Council of Agriculture
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Greenhouse Design: High Biosecurity in Greenhouses? Even More Need to Guard Against Highly Contagious Pests and Diseases
Greenhouses may appear to avoid many pests and diseases, but in reality they place even greater demands on everyday execution of environmental hygiene and safety. Only by being a bit finicky can you grow sweet, beautiful fruit. Let's take a look below. Biosecurity is not just a basic requirement for farms, poultry and livestock operations.
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How to prevent and control common corn pests and diseases? A detailed explanation of prevention and control measures
Pest and Disease Control Strategies for Organic Corn Cultivation The diseases that easily occur during corn cultivation are leaf spot, smut, rust, and mosaic virus, while the pests include corn borers and aphids. The occurrence of pests and diseases is closely related to climatic conditions, so the timing of control should be decided according to climatic factors and field diseases
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Why are jujube farmers cutting down their jujube trees? Market development needs to be accelerated
A snowfall not long ago brought waves of chill to the Lüliang Mountains. Living on the mountain, jujube farmers gazed at patch after patch of jujube groves and could not help shaking their heads in helplessness: these jujube trees that had given them hope of prosperity more than a decade ago now left them deeply disappointed. No one buying jujube, some cutting down trees. Shilou
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Structural overcapacity in agricultural production also calls for supply-side reform
It is the beginning of the year, and the 2016 No. 1 Central Document focused on the "three rural issues" is about to be issued. The reporter learned that the "Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Implementing New Development Concepts, Accelerating Agricultural Modernization, and Achieving the Goal of Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects (Discussion Draft)" announced at the Central Rural Work Conference at the end of last year has been listed as the draft of this year's No. 1 Document.
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Farmers Need Encouragement to Buy Homes, Supporting Policies Must Keep Up
De-stocking is a powerful measure taken by the state in light of the current economic situation to boost development and improve people's livelihood. To a certain extent, it will inevitably bring a direct increase in the number of farmers becoming urbanized, but de-stocking is by no means a necessary precondition for farmers' urbanization, and farmers moving into cities is even less
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What should the new concept of food security be like?
Food security is closely linked to social harmony, political stability and sustained economic development. Under the new normal of economic development, based on the national conditions of China's population, land, urbanisation, industrialisation and people's living standards during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, it is predicted that in the next six years China's food demand will rise further
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Food safety liability insurance is widely praised but poorly subscribed, and needs market preconditions
After the media exposed on July 20 that Shanghai Husi sold expired meat, involving McDonald's, KFC and several other chain restaurant companies, on July 28 the media again exposed that the Changping branch of the Hanlixuan barbecue supermarket had various problems including "saliva meat" flowing back to the table. One after another food
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Town-to-city conversion requires accelerated reform of supporting systems
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice on comprehensive pilot projects for new-type urbanization, requiring each province to select eligible cities and towns at different levels as pilot projects to report to the NDRC, especially for towns with a population of over 100,000
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China's Agricultural Wholesale Markets Urgently Need Transformation and Upgrading
In recent years, the development of China's agricultural wholesale markets has slowed down, showing signs of fatigue. Regarding the transformation and upgrading of agricultural wholesale markets, theoretical circles have been continuously exploring, and government departments such as the Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission have also attached great importance to this. However, the pace of transformation and upgrading
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