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FAO to strengthen cooperation with China in the fight against hunger
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Oct. 16 is World Food Day. What is the global grain output situation this year? What challenges does China's food security face? How should we view the "China food threat theory"? Is genetically modified technology a "lifeline"? A few days ago, Xinhua reporters conducted an exclusive interview on hot issues in the grain sector
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Li Keqiang: Advancing agricultural modernization on the basis of family farming
Dear Director-General Graziano, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends: It gives me great pleasure to come to the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in this golden autumn season to attend the events of the 34th World Food Day. Just now, as soon as I entered the FAO building, I saw on the wall of the lobby on the first floor
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Opportunities Arise for Farmer Cooperatives to Develop Processing and Distribution
Editor's Note: This year's No. 1 Central Document proposed implementing and improving relevant tax preferential policies to support farmer cooperatives in developing agricultural product processing and distribution, drawing a clearly directed and distinctly outlined roadmap for farmer cooperatives under the new situation. Recently, the Agricultural Product Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture
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Farmers no longer face difficulty getting loans; they can apply as long as they have a guarantee or collateral
The cooperative has more than 500 farmer households holding shares and over a thousand mu of land contributed as shares. It produces high-quality waxy corn and engages in contract farming. Industrialized development requires a large amount of capital. Previously, because there was no collateral, it could not get loans from banks and often had to resort to private lending, which carried high interest and high
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The Future Opportunity for Supply and Marketing Cooperatives Lies in Agricultural Socialized Services
As an important force in rural economic and social development, supply and marketing cooperatives have played an important role for 60 years. However, having emerged from the planned economy, supply and marketing cooperatives have been greatly impacted by the market economy. The supply and marketing cooperatives that formerly had "many outlets, broad coverage and long reach" have in some
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New Thinking Needed for Supporting New-Type Agricultural Operating Entities
In recent years, China's distinctive new-type agricultural operating entities have grown vigorously, becoming one of the most striking phenomena in the transformation of agricultural development modes. However, with economic development, in the field of agricultural production, the development of new-type agricultural operating entities faces a series of new difficulties,
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Five departments issue opinions to support the innovative development of farmer water user cooperative organizations
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 5 (Reporter Yu Wenjing) The Ministry of Water Resources, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the State Administration for Industry and Commerce recently jointly issued guiding opinions, specifying that through methods such as policy preference, property rights reform, increased funding input, and comprehensive water price reform,
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How can agricultural cooperatives break through three development ceilings?
Qin Jianfeng, chairman of the Guanshan Jianfeng Chicken Farming Professional Cooperative in Ningxiang County: For a cooperative like ours to get an interest-free loan, the policy exists, but putting it into practice is extremely difficult. By the end of 2013, Hunan had 18,259 farmers' professional cooperatives, with 1.807 million farming households
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How can the development vitality of farmers' cooperatives be fully stimulated?
Recently, nine departments including the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Finance, which form the national inter-ministerial joint conference on farmers' cooperative development, issued the "Opinions on Guiding and Promoting the Standardized Development of Farmers' Cooperatives," proposing from 12 aspects the tasks for strengthening the standardized construction of farmers' cooperatives.
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Some Reflections on How to Promote the Healthy Development of Cooperatives
Since the implementation of the "Law on Specialized Farmers' Cooperatives," China's specialized farmers' cooperatives have developed rapidly, showing characteristics of heterogeneity and diversity. The 2013 Central Document No. 1 pointed out: manpower support for developing new types of farmers' cooperative organizations in various forms. Farmers' cooperatives are the driving force
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