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Yinchuan Sustainable Farm's organic rice growers cultivate agricultural talent through organic life camps
Organic rice growers take on the responsibility of nurturing agricultural talent! Yinchuan Sustainable Farm launches a land restoration revolution through organic life camps. Arriving in Fuli Township, Hualien, Taiwan, China, one is greeted by rice paddies everywhere, and this is Fuli rice, one of the "Three Treasures of Fuli" alongside shiitake mushrooms grown on logs and daylilies. Hualien has the largest organic cultivation area in all of Taiwan, about 2,800-plus hectares, and Yinchuan Sustainable Farm is the largest organic rice grower in all of Taiwan, cultivating 680 hectares of organic rice a year, but for Yinchuan, the connection to this land in Hualien is not merely planting rice in the fields, but taking root locally through "organic life camps."
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Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau: The recent high-level rise in vegetable prices will continue
At yesterday's Beijing epidemic prevention and control work session, an official from the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau explained the recent performance of market vegetable prices. First-level inspector Wang Hongcun said that due to multiple factors, vegetable prices in the city, especially leafy vegetables, have continued to rise since the National Day holiday. Monitoring shows that wholesale vegetable supply has declined recently; due to the diversity of the city's distribution channels,
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Pomelo prices plummet: red-fleshed pomelo, Sanhong pomelo and grapefruit markets remain sluggish
At present, China is in the season when pomelos ripen and hit the market in concentrated volumes. In recent years, pomelo varieties have been upgraded and replaced markedly, and many former premium varieties have now fallen from grace, with low purchase prices and slow market movement. Take the most traditional white-fleshed pomelo as an example: in Pinghe, Fujian, the price of white pomelo at the production area is as low as 0.5-0.6 yuan/jin,
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Australian avocado planting expands sharply, production up 65%, import prices plummet
Avocado is a fruit native to South America. In earlier years, prices were relatively good, but with the current growth in planting area, prices have fallen sharply. In recent years, due to strong consumer demand for avocados, Australian fruit farmers have rushed to plant them in large numbers, and many trees planted in the past two years began to flower and bear fruit this year. In addition,
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Why did the price of Shine Muscat grapes plummet?
Shine Muscat is known as King of Sunshine in Japan and as Shine Muscat in China. Its price once reached 500 yuan per jin, and only 6 years after it was introduced in 2015, its market price is 10 yuan. For the market, this is a good thing, but for the majority
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Heavy rain causes 150 million yuan in agricultural losses; Council of Agriculture closely monitors fruit and vegetable price fluctuations
The Council of Agriculture stated that agricultural losses from the heavy rain have reached NT$150 million, with melons and leafy vegetables particularly affected in Yunlin County, Tainan and Pingtung areas. It will assist county and city governments with agricultural loss procedures and guard against fruit and vegetable price fluctuations. The Ministry of Economic Affairs today held the central flood
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Brewed with organic tea, hot spring rice and Chinese herbs: 3 Yilan shops launch limited-edition craft beers
Craft beer has become very popular in recent years, and opening a bottle to savor slowly on a scorching summer day is quite refreshing. Three shops in Yilan have teamed up to launch the "Lanyang Field Local Beer, Summer Terroir Beer Set," combining Dongshan organic tea, Jiaoxi hot spring red glutinous rice, Chinese herbs and craft beer
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Anthurium industry chain hit by the pandemic, expanding exports to balance prices
Hit by the novel coronavirus pandemic, with the Level 3 epidemic alert about to reach two full months, religious venues, celebrations and public commercial promotional activities have all been suspended, dealing a severe blow to the flower market that relies heavily on such domestic demand, but relevant flower associations are still working hard on exports
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Yilan Zaodaotian Leisure Farm has been rooted for five years, building an organic food-and-play agri-innovation space
As the saying goes: "Focus on your own trade and run it with heart, and in five years you will certainly achieve something through your efforts!" Located in Yuanshan, Yilan, the Zaodaotian food-and-play agri-innovation space is being built on this piece of land that began as an eel-farming site in the 1970s of the Republic of China era, then later became farmland for crop cultivation, and now, as Zaodaotian, is renowned across Taiwan for its diamond-grade green building constructed with the solid-wood cross-laminated timber CLT method and building materials from Japanese hinoki cypress, all writing a new page in the history of Yuanshan, Yilan.
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Experts urge rice farmers to switch to organic farming: helps make land sustainable and prevents lodging disaster losses
As extreme climate becomes increasingly severe, the first rice crop harvest period every June often encounters days of torrential rain, causing rice ears to turn green-yellow, lodge and sprout, and farmers rushing to harvest green-cut rice, resulting in agricultural losses; the government must allocate funds to purchase the disaster-affected rice. Liu, head of the Department of Agriculture at Mingdao University
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