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China's rice area at 30.37 million hectares; rapeseed output expected to exceed level of 7 years ago
China's rice area reaches 30.37 million hectares. According to estimates by the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2015 China's rice planting area increased by 0.2% over the previous year, reaching 30.37 million hectares. Among this, this year's early rice planting area was flat compared with the previous year, at about 5.8 million hectares or so. If calculated based on the per-unit yield trend of recent years, 2015 early rice output could reach a level of about 34.5 million tons. Statistics show that from May last year to now, the total transaction volume of the three types of rice was 6.79 million tons, of which early rice transactions were 810,000 tons, middle and late rice transactions were 3.32 million tons, and japonica rice transactions were 2.66 million tons. Before the new grain comes to market, the remaining policy-related rice volume is still relatively large, and the pressure on the market remains fairly significant.
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Domestic rapeseed gradually loses market share, may be dominated by the international market
Currently, the Yangtze River basin is in the peak season for the market release of newly harvested rapeseed. In previous years at this time, farmers growing rapeseed, oil mills purchasing rapeseed and traders would be bustling with activity: farmers actively selling, while oil mills and traders scrambled to buy up the newly harvested rapeseed, and newly pressed rapeseed oil and rapeseed meal had also begun to be supplied to the market in large quantities.
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Rapeseed Production Halved, China May Repeat the Soybean Industry's Mistakes
Anhui is a major rapeseed-producing region in China, and Hefei, Chuzhou and Lu'an in central Anhui are key rapeseed-growing areas. Zhang Yongwen, a large-scale farmer in the area, told reporters that few people there now grow rapeseed, with wheat and rice being the main crops.
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Rapeseed purchasing entity shifts to local level starting 2015
The reporter learned from the National Grain Administration on the 18th that starting in 2015, the entity responsible for rapeseed purchasing will shift from the central government to local governments, with local governments responsible for organizing various enterprises to carry out rapeseed purchasing. It is reported that the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Grain Administration, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Agricultural Development Bank of China
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How is the rapeseed harvest quality? 2015 national survey report released
In order to understand the quality status of newly harvested rapeseed in 2015 and guide all localities in doing a good job in procurement, the State Administration of Grain organized 7 major rapeseed-producing provinces, namely Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Sichuan, and in accordance with the unified national sampling and spot-check requirements, collected rapeseed
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Progress of wheat and rapeseed procurement in main producing areas as of July 25
According to statistics, as of July 25, various grain enterprises in 9 main producing areas including Henan and Jiangsu had purchased 44.92 million tons of newly harvested wheat, a decrease of 14.43 million tons compared with the same period of the previous year. Various grain enterprises in 9 main producing areas including Sichuan and Hubei had purchased 900,000 tons of newly harvested rapeseed, a decrease of
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Mechanization is the only fundamental way forward for rapeseed production
The fundamental way forward for rapeseed production lies in mechanization - this is the broad consensus of agricultural machinery and agronomy experts at the Rapeseed Production Mechanization Technology Seminar. On August 11, the Rapeseed Production Mechanization Technology Seminar was held in Beijing. At the meeting, results were released from rapeseed main production areas in 4 provinces of our country
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Rapeseed procurement volume in 2015 decreased by 54% year-on-year
According to relevant statistics, as of September 30, various grain enterprises in 9 major production areas including Sichuan and Hubei had procured 10,000 tons of newly produced rapeseed, a decrease of 1.88 million tons compared with the same period of the previous year, a decline of 54%. Due to this year's policy adjustment canceling the unified temporary storage procurement, rapeseed
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Where exactly is the way forward for spring-sown rapeseed?
As of mid-October, the harvest of China's spring-sown rapeseed is nearing its end, with the harvest in the Inner Mongolia region basically complete, and the harvest progress in the northwestern production areas also approaching about 80%. However, constrained by the end of the national temporary storage price-support system, rapeseed from the above production areas has not only seen prices plummet,
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Technical Guidance on Field Management of Rapeseed During the Wintering Period (2015)
During this year's autumn sowing of rapeseed, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River basin received excessive rainfall, while in the middle and lower reaches the rice harvest period was delayed and a drought occurred in mid-October. The sowing and transplanting period of rapeseed was generally delayed compared with normal years, by about 10 days in the upper reaches and by about 5 days in some parts of the middle and lower reaches,
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