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The seed industry market is expected to bottom out and rebound in the third quarter
Editor's note: In recent years, some seed inventories have been severe, with corn and rice seed supply exceeding demand, the number of seed companies and seed production areas shrinking, and production capacity declining. According to general patterns, after two or three years of wandering in the trough, the seed market will enter an upward cycle. Last year, the seed production, supply and demand analysis meeting of the National Agricultural Technology Center also predicted that the seed supply and demand relationship would improve this year. Some analysts in the agricultural materials industry, based on the bottoming-out situation of the industry's economic operation and various favorable conditions, predict that the seed industry will bottom out and rebound in the third quarter, but some people in seed companies believe that the risks in the seed industry market have not yet been fully released, and the destocking and capacity reduction of the two hybrid crops have not yet been completed. Which view is more well-founded? Where does the seed market's wind vane point? Readers are invited to pay attention and think.
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How does the beekeeping industry help farmers increase their income?
Editor's note: The beekeeping industry occupies a relatively important position in our national economy. It not only provides society with abundant bee products, but can also help farmers increase their income and become prosperous. At present, China raises about 6.5 million bee colonies, with an annual output of nearly 200,000 tons of honey, 1,500 tons of royal jelly, and 1,100 tons of pollen, all ranking first in the world's beekeeping industry. Honey and royal jelly are China's traditional export commodities. Annual honey exports exceed 100,000 tons, and royal jelly exceeds 900 tons, with export volumes ranking first in the world. Bee product exports earn more than 80 million US dollars in foreign exchange.
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Grain-selling farmers, take note: National Food Administration issues urgent notice banning IOUs
As the summer grain purchasing peak season is currently underway, the National Food Administration recently issued an urgent notice requiring strict oversight and serious investigation and punishment of the practice of giving IOUs to grain-selling farmers. The National Food Administration stated that since the second half of 2014, a few grain trading enterprises have violated
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New Wheat Purchase Policy Implemented, Farmers' Income Guaranteed
Editor's note: Affected by the domestic macroeconomic situation and the supply-demand relationship for wheat, the market price of new wheat has been running weak this year. Driven by the minimum purchase price policy, the price has generally risen slightly while remaining stable, but quality differentiation is obvious, and the purchase volume has dropped sharply compared with the same period last year. This year's new
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E-commerce Gives Agricultural Product Sales Wings to Soar
Editor's Note In recent years, e-commerce has become a new platform for rural youth to start businesses and find employment, and a new way for farmers to increase their incomes, especially playing a unique role in solving the difficulty of selling agricultural products. Many readers have written in saying that agricultural product e-commerce has broad prospects, but at present there are still
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Have the Grain Subsidies Arrived? A Clear Guide to the Payment Details
Editor's Note: For stabilizing grain and raising incomes, agricultural subsidy policy has played an indispensable role. However, as agriculture and rural areas undergo profound change, the effects and efficiency of a subsidy policy implemented for more than 10 years are diminishing, making adjustments and improvements urgently necessary. In response to current practical problems, this year the state is advancing
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Rice minimum purchase price policy boosts rice prices, but farmers' income growth still needs policies in place
Editor's note: Starting July 28, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei provinces successively launched the 2015 early indica rice minimum purchase price procurement, easing the brief pressure on market purchase prices in the early period, and the policy's price-support effect is gradually emerging. However, constrained by storage conditions, farming schedules, etc.,
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How Can E-commerce Transactions Move Beyond "Price by Inspection of Goods"?
Editor's note: Recently, after review and deliberation by industry experts from the Ministry of Agriculture, the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the China Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Logistics Expert Committee and other departments, the "Electronic Trading Specification Standards for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials Products" (hereinafter referred to as the "Standards"), completed by Chengdu Tiandiwang Information Technology Co., Ltd., was approved, pioneering electronic trading standards for agricultural products. How were these standards formulated, what are their characteristics? How will they be implemented? What insights do they offer for China's agricultural product e-commerce?
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A Record of the Reform, Innovation and Development of Our Nation's Seed Industry
Editor's Note: Grain is the foundation of the state, and the seed industry is the foundation of grain. China's seed industry started from nothing at the beginning of the founding of New China, and through decades of unremitting efforts, it has continued to develop and grow through shared endeavor. Especially since entering the new century, China's seed industry, under external pressure from international competition and internal challenges of transforming the growth model and adjusting the structure, has continuously reformed and innovated, pressing forward into deep-water areas, gradually breaking through the shackles of systems and mechanisms, and radiating new vitality and brilliance. An in-depth analysis of the course of seed industry reform and development not only profoundly reflects the great process of China's agricultural modernization, but also vividly embodies the hardships and efforts of China's comprehensive deepening of reform, possessing unique typical significance and distinct contemporary value.
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Banning straw burning cannot succeed without supporting policies
Editor's note: Every harvest season, air pollution caused by burning straw always becomes a focus of attention. How can we comprehensively utilize this valuable biomass resource and avoid simply burning it all and creating a source of smog? Reporters from Economic Daily visited experts and scholars and went
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