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Grape orders plummet by 70 percent, small farmers call for bulk group purchases by companies and communities
Grapes hang heavy on the vines, yet farmers in Dacun, Changhua pick them with great anxiety. After the domestic pandemic alert was raised to Level 3, people's consumption shifted from physical stores to online, causing orders from restaurants and fruit shops to drop; when "Upstream and Downstream" actually asked farmers' associations and farmers in the production areas, it found that grapes in the Dacun area are mostly sold directly by farmers, with a small portion sold on their behalf by the farmers' association. With school closures, staggered work shifts and unstable logistics and delivery conditions, orders have fallen sharply for both the farmers' association and the farmers, with farmers' orders down by more than 70 percent. Last year's warm winter also caused grapes in Nantou to mature early, so the grapes from both areas clashed head-on, which is quite unfavorable for sales.
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Can People with High Blood Sugar Eat Millennium Cherry Tomatoes? Answers on Sugar Content and GMO Concerns
The Millennium cherry tomato is a fairly popular tomato-type fruit in recent years. Because it tastes better than ordinary tomato-type fruits, with a sweet-and-sour flavor, it is very well liked by the public. However, many people worry about whether the Millennium cherry tomato is a genetically modified food, whether its sugar content is high, and whether people with high blood sugar
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Thrips Pest Control Methods: Orius strigicollis (Anthocorid Bug) Preys on Thrips
Thrips: Thrips typically suck sap from the tender tips and flowers of watermelon, causing the growing points of the watermelon to shrivel and turn black, or even become necrotic. With such significant damage, what should we do to effectively control them? The damage caused by thrips on crops has in recent years
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How to grow cucumbers? A detailed guide to the planting time and methods of cucumbers
Fertilizer management techniques for organic cultivation of small cucumbers. Cucumber is a vining plant of the genus Cucumis in the gourd family. The cultivated area in Taiwan, China is about 3,000 hectares or more, divided into two main categories: large cucumbers and small cucumbers. Small cucumbers, also called baby cucumbers or flower cucumbers, are cultivated in Yilan and Hualien counties
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China's grass industry annual output value exceeds 300 billion yuan: small grass, big business
China has nearly 400 million hectares of various types of grassland, and the annual output value of the grass industry has already exceeded 300 billion yuan. Small grass is a big business. Right now, it is the most beautiful season on the grasslands. Grass can nourish increasingly fragile ecosystems and can also give rise to a large industry. Small grass is a big business. Chinese grass
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Large grain growers must return subsidies to smallholders, leaving agricultural support policies stranded in confusion
In order to encourage the development of new types of agricultural business entities, in recent years the state and local governments have begun to provide them with fiscal subsidies. In Chongqing, subsidy standards are divided into two tiers according to operating scale: 160 yuan and 230 yuan per mu. But in grassroots practice, many smallholders have become "field bosses," and large grain growers have to "return" part of the subsidy money to them. In some districts and counties, large growers actually receive about 90 yuan per mu in subsidies, and in a few places even less than 10 yuan.
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The key to differentiated household registration lies in the attractiveness of small and medium-sized cities
A few days ago, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Advancing the Reform of the Household Registration System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which is a programmatic document guiding the reform of the household registration system for the current period and the period ahead. The "Opinions" clearly propose taking a differentiated
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Why does opening up household registration in small cities mean so little?
In order to help farmers obtain equal rights, it is necessary to abolish the identity discrimination aimed specifically at farmers; this is progress. And in order to support agricultural development more effectively, it is necessary to identify farmers' status; this is even greater progress. Reform of the household registration system is meant to establish an operational...
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What small details should be emphasized in the development of grass-fed livestock husbandry?
In the course of its development, grass-fed livestock husbandry requires not only scientific planning and design and reasonable coordinated arrangements from a certain height, but also attention to various details. In the author's view, to find a
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The advantage of a village bank lies in being small and stable
Since the founding of China's first rural mutual fund cooperative in 2007, rural mutual fund cooperatives have been developing in our country for 7 years, and there are currently 49 of them. The Yimin Rural Mutual Fund Cooperative in Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, located in a remote mountain village, is one of them, and it has been operating for 7 years now.
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