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Sharp increase in grain imports heightens food security concerns
On one hand, grain production has increased for eleven consecutive years; on the other, grain imports have hit a record high. Yesterday, Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges' "Economic Monthly Talk" that last year China's imported soybeans and grains accounted for 10
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Food security: no immediate worries, but long-term challenges cannot be ignored
China's grain harvest has already been bumper for 11 consecutive years. Jiangsu's grain output last year also reached 68.9 billion jin, ranking fifth in the country, and it was also a high-yield year in recent years. Speaking about the reasons for China's consecutive bumper grain harvests, Xu
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Too Much Grain in Reserve? Committee Member Rebuts: If Production Is Cut and Prices Rise, We Will Regret It Too Late
As a major agricultural country, China cannot avoid the issue of food security. Due to China's minimum purchase price policy, wheat and rice stocks are overflowing. This is a microcosm of the "eleven consecutive years of increase" in total grain output. However, the fact that some domestic grain prices are higher than those abroad has prompted
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New-type fertilizers do not lack concepts; what they lack is successful promotion on the ground
Compared with traditional chemical fertilizers, whether it is biological nitrogen positioned as controlling nitrogen release, slow and controlled-release fertilizers, or medium and trace element fertilizers that balance crop nutrient absorption, as well as various functional fertilizers, soil conditioners, etc., all are designed to focus on solving crop growth
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The current trajectory of traditional village evolution is cause for concern
China's traditional villages are undergoing a transformation unprecedented in a thousand years. According to data published by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2011 China's mainland urban population reached 690.79 million, accounting for 51.27% of the total population and surpassing the rural population for the first time. At the same time, however, rural China has shown a trend of hollowing out
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Family farm owner once visited by the Premier looks forward to a bumper year
Pictured: Li Keqiang visited Lingxian County, Dezhou, Shandong on July 24, 2014, for a "whole-process" inspection of Deqiang Modern Family Farm. Photo by Liu Zhen, China News Service
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What new concepts does China's agricultural development transformation need
Since the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has always placed solving the issues relating to agriculture, rural areas and farmers in the most important position in the work of the whole Party, and has successively issued twelve central "No. 1 documents" themed on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, implementing a series of unprecedented policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers and enrich rural areas. Through
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Land transfer pilot program has reached 300 million mu, rural reform fires three arrows at once
Agricultural product price reform, rural land system reform, and rural collective asset property rights reform have entered deep water, marking a comprehensive acceleration of a new round of agricultural and rural reform. Although it is still deep winter, the spring tide of the rural land system reform pilot has already surged. Along with the rural land
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Conditions for Making Potatoes a Staple Food Are Ripe, but Concerns Over Price Fluctuations Remain
At a seminar recently held by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, advancing potatoes to become China's fourth-largest staple food crop was publicly proposed from a national strategic perspective for the first time, and it has also become a focus of heated public discussion in recent days. As of January 10, on Sina Weibo alone, views of the topic "potatoes become a staple food" had
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Explaining the push to make potatoes a staple food: What impact will it have once potatoes become a staple grain?
On the 6th, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong said at the Potato Staple Food Strategy Seminar that in the future, by advancing the move to make potatoes a staple food, and striving through several years of unremitting effort, the potato planting area, per-unit yield level, total output and the share of staple-food potato products in total potato consumption should all increase significantly, so that potatoes gradually become China's fourth-largest staple grain crop after rice, wheat and corn.
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