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Labor shortage makes hiring difficult in grain farming, how can efficiency be improved?
Recently, at the wheat field of Zhang Junbao, a major grain grower in the 11th Company of the 49th Regiment of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, this writer saw that with the roar of the combine harvester, the tasks of feeding the heads, threshing and loading were completed in one go, while the baler quickly pressed the wheat stalks into neat rectangular stacks. Zhang Junbao said:
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Small-scale, low-efficiency agriculture: how to make up for the shortcomings
The Ministry of Finance recently issued guidance to advance appropriately scaled agricultural operations, accelerate the building of a new type of agricultural operating system, and drive the transformation of agricultural development methods and the process of agricultural modernization. To advance appropriately scaled agricultural operations, how can the advantages of comprehensive agricultural development be brought into play? How
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Industry opinion holds that wheat supply will remain loose in the short term
Wheat supply to remain loose in the short term. Affected by the macroeconomic environment, wheat demand is suppressed by the flour market, milling enterprises show average enthusiasm for purchasing, and in the short term there is basically no incentive to raise prices for procurement. The overall market downturn has also made purchasing and sales enterprises more cautious in their operations, and policy grain purchases have shrunk considerably compared with last year, mainly because the market's purchasing sentiment is more relaxed than last year; in some areas, wheat quality problems have also affected the pace of purchasing. As purchasing work gradually progresses, policy grain purchases will gradually expand and become the main force in market purchasing. In the short term, wheat will continue to maintain a loose supply situation, and wheat prices will remain near the support price.
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China's livestock industry development enters the fast lane as the era of meat, egg and milk shortages comes to an end
From eating meat only on holidays to a 7-fold increase in per capita meat availability, from less than 15% of total agricultural output value to "one of three pillars," from a rural household sideline to an important national industry, China's livestock industry has entered the fast lane of development. Farewell to the era of meat, egg and milk shortages. Livestock farming is an
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How can the shortcomings in agricultural modernization be addressed?
Simultaneously advancing industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization was clearly set out as one of the major policy orientations in the 12th Five-Year Plan outline. Looking ahead to the 13th Five-Year Plan, while this policy orientation continues its essence and expands into the "new four modernizations," it also reveals an intent to address shortcomings. At the recent
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Industry Viewpoint: Short-Term Corn Prices Will Run Weak
Industry data monitoring shows that since mid-July, corn prices in North China had already seen a slight decline. Entering August, prices fell off a cliff, and the subsequent short-term rebound did not last long. The industry calls this a "continuous plunge" in corn prices, and the corn price-cutting storm is sweeping across the country. Corn
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Corn prices have already entered a long, drawn-out bear market, and the downward trend is unlikely to reverse in the short term
Since June, domestic corn futures prices have shown an accelerating downward momentum, and the monthly chart of the corn main 1601 contract even posted 6 consecutive declines, showing that corn prices already have bear market characteristics. Under the heavy pressures of adjustment to the stockpiling policy, massive inventory buildup, the new-season corn coming to market, and sluggish demand,
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Heavy soybean meal supply pressure, sell on rebounds
On the 11th, the soybean meal 1509 contract showed an oscillating trend. As of the close, the soybean meal 1509 contract edged lower, settling at 2733 yuan/ton, down 0.11% from the previous day's settlement price, while open interest increased by 45980 contracts to 4101558 contracts. Before the USDA released its latest soybean supply and demand report,
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Rice prices rise in some areas due to a temporary supply shortage
During the Spring Festival, rice processing enterprises in Northeast China stopped operation, and they also resumed work relatively late after the holiday, so the rice market supply was relatively small; moreover, before the holiday, distributors in sales areas were rather pessimistic about the later rice price trend, so they kept relatively small rice stocks. After the holiday, market demand recovered,
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When Will the Financing Difficulties of Modern Agriculture Be Resolved?
Not long ago, the China Banking Regulatory Commission issued the "Regulatory Guidelines on Strengthening the Construction of the Three Rural Financial Service Mechanism of Rural Commercial Banks," requiring rural commercial banks to continuously enhance their distinctive, specialized, and refined capacity to serve the three rural sectors. The Central Rural Work Conference proposed that no matter how tight the financial resources,
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