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Record Soybean Harvest Fails to Reverse Declining Legume Prices
An extra harvest of three to five dou was originally a sight that delighted farmers, but in a year of abundant production it became the straw that bent agricultural prices downward. In the golden autumn season, a spell of rainy weather during the soybean harvest on the other side of the ocean brought a small rebound in domestic and international soybean futures and soybean oil futures.
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Super rice sets a new target: 16 tons per hectare within 5 years
Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice," said on the 21st at the Xiangjiang Forum held in Wangcheng, Hunan, that after achieving a major breakthrough in the fourth-phase super rice project, he hopes to continue with the fifth-phase research, and suggested setting the fifth-phase target at 16 tons per hectare, with a plan to raise super rice yields to this new level within 5 years.
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Organic food is expensive but its authenticity is inconsistent. Can consumers trust it?
Organic vegetables, organic rice, organic eggs. Nowadays, various organic foods are expensive but their authenticity is inconsistent. Please see the investigation our reporter conducted deep in the market. Organic food, can we trust it? True and false confusion: Are organic foods easy to recognize? The concept of organic food is vague,
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Cotton price reform opens up space for futures market innovation, price fluctuations will become the norm
The most core effect released by the cotton target price reform pilot is that the market mechanism is gradually playing a decisive role in cotton price formation. Zhang Fan, chairman of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, said this at the recently held 2014 Zhengzhou Agricultural Products (Cotton) Futures Forum. He introduced
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Ensuring food security: the Chinese people's rice bowl must always be held firmly in our own hands
On January 10, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference was grandly held in the solemn Great Hall of the People. The achievement "Research and Application of Two-Line Hybrid Rice Technology" obtained by our research team won the Special Prize for Science and Technology Progress. When presenting the award, General Secretary Xi Jinping said to me kindly
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On October 22, 2014, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 22 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 199.24, down 0.22 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 199.88, down 0.21 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market pig
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China Green Food Consumer Price Index edges down month-on-month
According to the latest monitoring data from Xinhua (Daqing) International Petroleum Information Center, in September 2014 the China Green Food Consumer Price Index stood at 103.12, down 0.18% month-on-month. Overall, affected by factors such as the relatively ample supply of agricultural products during the harvest season, vegetables
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On October 23, 2014, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 23 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 198.95, down 0.29 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 199.57, down 0.31 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at national agricultural wholesale markets, pig
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Great progress in hybrid rice, food security guaranteed
Rice is the most important food crop. More than half of the world's population relies on rice as a staple food, and in China, over 60% of the population relies on rice as a staple food. Among food crops, rice ranks first, wheat second, corn third, and tubers fourth. In China, rice accounts for
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Low prices are only the surface; overcapacity is the main cause
In recent years, although wheat prices have risen slowly, they remain strong compared with processed flour, giving rise to the phenomenon of "strong wheat, weak flour." A reporter recently learned from an investigation of several flour processing enterprises in Henan Province that the problem of overcapacity is prominent, and overall poor profitability has become
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