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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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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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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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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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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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Upgrading agricultural cooperatives requires joint efforts from both inside and outside
The state introduced this policy very timely; agricultural cooperatives really need to be regulated. At present there are many kinds of cooperatives, but those with high operating quality are exceedingly rare. On the 8th, after hearing the reporter describe the "Opinions on Guiding and Promoting the Standardized Development of Farmers' Cooperatives" recently jointly issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and nine other ministries and commissions,
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Developing moderate-scale agricultural operations must be both proactive and prudent
China has a large population and little land, and the average household farmland scale is tiny, far below the international average, and the level of agricultural labor productivity is relatively low. With the advancement of China's industrialization and urbanization, farmers' non-agricultural employment income has continued to rise, while their willingness to engage in agriculture has been declining day by day,
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Recommendations on How Land Transfer Mechanisms Can Help Create a New Type of Agricultural Operating System
Building a new type of agricultural operating system composed of specialized large-scale farmers, family farms, farmers' cooperatives, and agricultural enterprises is another important reform of China's rural economic system, building on the household contract responsibility system. This particularly involves the key issue of both adhering to the long-term stability of land contracting relationships and promoting effective land transfer in achieving appropriately scaled operations.
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What are the changing characteristics of agricultural cooperative finance in modern China?
Agricultural cooperative finance in modern China began with the rural credit cooperation experiment conducted by the China International Famine Relief Commission in Hebei in the 1920s. After the 1930s, as traditional rural finance in China dried up and the economic crisis intensified, the cause of cooperative finance was regarded by the Nationalist Government and all sectors of
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Four Issues to Watch in Advancing Land Transfer and Scale Operation
At present, China's agriculture is at a critical stage of accelerated transformation, and whether traditional agriculture can smoothly achieve the historic leap to modern agriculture fundamentally depends on whether the process of land transfer and appropriate scale operation can be advanced steadily and in an orderly manner. With the central government further cl
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