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Small grains also have a big future: why are farmers unwilling to grow them?
When people talk about miscellaneous grains, they habitually attach the word "small" to them. Compared with field crops, miscellaneous grains are mainly intercropped along ditch edges and embankments and on dry slopes in mountainous areas, with small planting areas, and they are not staple foods, so they are called "small miscellaneous grains." In the past, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, once widely grew small miscellaneous grains, especially intercropped with cotton. But now, cotton fields in Gaoqing County have shrunk sharply, and the area of miscellaneous grains has plummeted accordingly. The once-flourishing scene of every household growing cotton and every household enjoying the fragrance of miscellaneous grains is hard to see again.
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Small and medium-sized leisure agriculture enterprises and business operators encouraged by policy to obtain mutual guarantee financing
Beijing, December 1 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang): The Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a notice making arrangements for promoting the sustained and healthy development of leisure agriculture. The Notice proposes continuously improving support policies for leisure agriculture, advancing the implementation of existing support policies, and striving for policies such as enjoying agricultural charging standards for water
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Unified tea safety standards benefit small-scale tea farmers
Tea did not originally come in decorated canisters or neat tea bags. It comes from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant, and more than 50 countries currently grow tea, but there are four main growing regions: China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka. In these regions
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Smuggling of agricultural products: ever-changing tricks, endless devious schemes
In the small hours, in Tansan Village, Naliang Town, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi, on the China-Vietnam border, 30-year-old Tang Moumou was arrested at home by customs anti-smuggling police. He is suspected of smuggling Vietnamese rice into the country from a non-designated crossing point by way of "guaranteed cargo." And far to the north, in the coastal city of Dalian,
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Turning Potatoes into a Staple Food Is No Small Matter: Five Questions About Potato Staple-ization
The Ministry of Agriculture says it will promote potatoes as China's fourth-largest staple food; experts say the ultimate goal is to win public acceptance in terms of varieties, nutrition and other aspects. On the 6th, a seminar on the development strategy for potato staple-ization, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other institutions, with the participation of a vice minister of agriculture, was held, and the meeting
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How the smallholder pattern can move harmoniously toward scaled-up operation
Joint cultivation and joint planting is a reform innovation originating from the agricultural and rural work practice of Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province. On the basis of stabilizing the household contract responsibility system, it adopts the "farmers + farmers + cooperative" approach, organized uniformly by villages and groups, to break down the drawbacks of land fragmentation and achieve
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Small-packaged oil will become a new profit growth point for the grain and oil industry
Under the dual pressure of falling soybean prices and sluggish consumer demand, small-packaged oil at retail terminals has nevertheless been one of the few success stories. Xiwang Foodstuffs' recently launched sunflower seed oil and olive oil have seen rapid sales growth, with outstanding results. As consumption levels rise, the consumption of small-packaged oil
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Ministry of Water Resources Encourages New-Style Agricultural Operating Entities to Invest in and Build Small-Scale Farmland Water Conservancy
On March 31, a reporter learned from a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that the state encourages cooperatives, large grain growers and other new-style operating entities to invest in and build small-scale farmland water conservancy facilities, and through certain measures allows "small-scale farmland water conservancy" projects funded by fiscal investment or built by farmers themselves to be
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Competition in the Feed Industry Escalates: Large Enterprises Integrate Smaller Ones in Pursuit of a Breakthrough
In recent years, the number of feed enterprises in China has been decreasing at a rate of 1,000 per year, with most newly opened plants concentrated in large feed groups, and the survival space for small and medium-sized enterprises increasingly shrinking. As of December 2014, the number of enterprises nationwide that had obtained feed production licenses was 7,061,
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How can agricultural machinery subsidies precisely help the transition from small agricultural machinery to large agricultural machinery
It is exactly the season for spring plowing and preparation. In the vast fields of Jiangsu and Anhui, major grain-producing areas, more agricultural machinery is showing its prowess in the farmland. In recent years, with the implementation of the agricultural machinery purchase subsidy policy, agricultural machinery has replaced human labor as the main tool of labor. The latest published
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