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Agricultural development needs to shift from grain supply to the pursuit of economic returns
Advancing agricultural modernization and transforming the agricultural development model are the focus of China's 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture. How should agricultural development transform its model under the 13th Five-Year Plan? In the view of Li Jieren, Party Secretary of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the extensive production that used to pursue output above all, and the low efficiency brought by excessively dispersed smallholder production, both urgently require a transformation of the model.
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Approval from the Ministry of Agriculture for the Change of the Issuer of Fishing Licenses in Guangdong Province
Guangdong Provincial Oceanic and Fishery Administration: Your bureau's "Request for Instructions on Changing the Issuer of Fishing Licenses" (Yue Hai Yu [2014] No. 35) has been received. Upon study, it is agreed that the issuer of fishing licenses in Guangdong Province be changed to Yang Wenkui, with validity until December 31, 2015. Chen Wen
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Developing edible fungi accelerates the pace of income growth for farmers in Shizhai Town, Feng County, Jiangsu
In recent years, Shizhai Town in Feng County, Jiangsu, based on increasing farmers' income and improving agricultural efficiency, has vigorously developed the edible fungi industry, among which the wood ear mushroom industry has especially flourished. By 2015, the whole town had grown 250 million bags of wood ear mushrooms, with total revenue of 250 million yuan and per capita net income of more than 3,000 yuan, and was
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Periodic Tightening of Wheat Supply and Demand Pushes Prices Back Toward Policy Price
The scope of the launch of the minimum purchase price policy for wheat in major producing areas has further expanded, which is expected to drive the start of a periodic market trend for wheat. As grain sources in the domestic circulation market further decrease, combined with the consumption of inventory grain sources by flour processing enterprises, the new wheat circulation market will show a pattern of "declining supply and rising demand"
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Farmers' entrepreneurship and innovation need strong support from rural finance
Not long ago, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice to deploy and implement an action plan to advance farmers' entrepreneurship and innovation. As rural financial institutions, they should actively cooperate with the action plan to advance farmers' entrepreneurship and innovation, fully leverage the "incubation" and "catalysis" functions of rural finance, so that farmers' entrepreneurship and innovation activities can take root and bear abundant fruit.
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Rice and corn grain filling will be affected, southwestern China to see low temperatures and scant sunshine over the next ten days
Since late July, most of southwestern China has had many rainy days, with sunshine hours in Yunnan and Guizhou 30% to 80% below the same period in normal years; temperatures have been low, with Yunnan's average temperature at 21.1°C, the lowest since 1990. Single-season rice in southwestern China is at the critical stage of heading and flowering and grain filling, while summer corn is at the tasseling to grain-filling stage. Low temperatures, rain and scant sunshine will inhibit or delay rice flowering, causing poor pollination of rice ears and an increased rate of empty grains; at the same time, low temperatures and scant sunshine will also affect the grain-filling rate of rice and corn, leading to a decline in grain weight.
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China Becomes the World's Largest Producer and Consumer of Potatoes, Pushing Forward the Industrialization of Potatoes as a Staple Food
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing ever higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time - the potato is a major food that is nutritious and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat, and
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Should the fertilizer export tariff be abolished? Industry experts and scholars suggest abolishing it
Recently, at the analysis meeting on the economic operation situation for the first three quarters organized by the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation, attending experts and scholars expressed their views on the fertilizer tariff issue one after another. Wang Ying, deputy director of the Information Department of the China Phosphate Fertilizer Industry Association, said: "Previously the fertilizer industry enjoyed
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How to Do a Good Job of Subtraction and Multiplication in Rural Entrepreneurship
Since the 1990s, as the entrepreneurial wave gradually emerged, the issue of farmers' entrepreneurship began to attract increasing attention. From the rise of township enterprises, to farmers going out to work, to returning home to start businesses, all of this has demonstrated the creativity and pioneering spirit of farmers' entrepreneurship. At present, our country's economy
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Grassland ecological subsidy policy sparks herders' entrepreneurial vitality
Last year, the province established a pilot performance management scheme in Shaliuhe Town and Quanji Township of Gangca County, linking the distribution of grassland ecological protection subsidy funds to protection responsibilities and protection results. This reform was aimed at protecting the grassland we rely on for survival, and won the support of the vast majority of herders. As
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