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Breaking the Bottlenecks in the Rural Land System Is a Key Move to Strengthen Agriculture and Enrich Farmers
In 1978, 18 farmers in Xiaogang Village, Anhui, took a huge risk and pressed bright red fingerprints onto a contract implementing household contracting with output quotas fixed for each household. It can be said that this very act made Xiaogang Village the birthplace of the "all-round contract" and also made rural land system reform the starting point of China's reform.
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How can farmers overcome the difficulty of spraying pesticides? Specialized plant protection services are the key
In recent years, China's plant protection machinery is undergoing profound changes. With the application of small remote-controlled aircraft, helicopters and large self-propelled boom sprayers, plant protection operations have begun to realize the transformation from people carrying machines to machines carrying people. On August 12, hosted by Sino-Agri Leading Biosciences
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Good varieties are the key for seed companies to grow bigger and stronger
The corn seed industry has advanced by leaps and bounds in recent decades, reflected in the continuous expansion of corn planting area. From less than 200 million mu in the early days after Liberation, it hovered at the 200 million mu level for 30 years, broke through 300 million mu in the 1990s, and remained at this
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How can the rapeseed industry be made stronger? Five provinces join hands to promote development
Hubei Daily dispatch (reporter Wu Wenjuan, correspondent Zhong Ping) On the 12th, at the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches rapeseed yield increase model research technical exchange meeting held in Wuhan, heads of agricultural departments from five provinces - Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Hubei - as well as rapeseed experts, discussed tackling ⟦4 <p> Hubei Daily dispatch (reporter Wu Wenjuan, correspondent Zhong Ping) On the 12th, at the “Yangtze River middle and lower reaches rapeseed yield increase model research technical exchange meeting” held in Wuhan, heads of agricultural departments from five provinces - Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu and Hubei - as well as rapeseed experts, held discussions on overcoming technical challenges in rapeseed breeding, transplanting and segmented harvesting.</p> <p> Experts explained that in recent years, despite repeated calls, the rapeseed planting area has been difficult to expand, mainly because the level of rapeseed mechanization is low, especially the lack of new early-maturing and very early-maturing varieties. In 2012, the national level of mechanized rapeseed planting and mechanized harvesting stood at 12.3% and 13.3% respectively, far lower than other crops.</p> <p> To keep the “oil bottle” stable, in April last year, the Ministry of Agriculture launched the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches rapeseed yield increase model research project, led by the Hubei Provincial Department of Agriculture, with the participation of the departments of agriculture of the four provinces of Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Jiangsu, to overcome the bottlenecks of early-maturing, high-yield, high-oil, high-resistance varieties and mechanization technology in rapeseed production.</p> <p> Over more than a year, new breakthroughs have been made in research on early-maturing varieties. Hubei has bred several promising early-maturing varieties and combinations such as “Shengguang 127” and “Huazao 291”, which can be harvested from late April to early May in the southeast and central regions. They are suitable varieties for the “rapeseed-rice-rice” combination, can ease the tight conflict in crop rotation, and can expand the rapeseed planting area in triple-cropping regions; in Hunan, a batch of early-maturing varieties (combinations) maturing around April 25 have been bred, and a batch of extremely early-maturing rapeseed lines sown in the Changsha area at the end of October and maturing around April 20. At the same time, the project areas have balanced grain and oil and pursued coordinated development, exploring triple-cropping planting models for grain and oil such as “rapeseed-rice-rice” and “rapeseed-rice-ratoon rice”.</p> <p> The meeting revealed that through large-scale promotion of mature technical models, by 2020, the rapeseed area in the Yangtze River middle and lower reaches project areas will achieve stable development, reaching more than 73 million mu, an increase of about 7 million mu; total output will approach 10 million tons, an increase of 1.3 million tons; the full-process mechanization rate of rapeseed will increase by 15 percentage points; and grain yield per unit area will increase by an average of 1.5 percentage points per year.</p>
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Ministry of Agriculture Establishes Yangtze Office to Strengthen Inland Fisheries Management
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 1 (Reporter Wang Yu) The reporter recently learned from China's Ministry of Agriculture that the Ministry of Agriculture has officially established the Yangtze River Basin Fisheries Supervision and Management Office to further strengthen inland fisheries management. According to the introduction, the Yangtze Office is China's first inland river basin fisheries supervision
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Stronger Organizations Help Villagers Get Rich (Frontline Investigation)
This year's No. 1 Central Document proposed further strengthening Party building work in farmers' cooperatives and professional technical associations, and innovating and improving organizational setups. Chifeng City in Inner Mongolia uses the "1+3" Party organization setup model to boost the healthy development of farmers' professional cooperatives and accelerate farmers' income growth
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The agricultural insurance protection function urgently needs strengthening
Agricultural insurance has played an irreplaceable role in reducing agricultural risks and safeguarding economic interests. However, compared with the rapidly changing development situation in rural areas, the development of agricultural insurance has only taken substantive steps, and there are still many constraining factors. Some places
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Rural Distribution Channels Then and Now: Markets Are Quietly Changing
Editor's note: As distribution channels multiply, buying and selling in rural areas is becoming more and more convenient. What has become of the rural market, once the main channel for farmers' consumption? Is it still as bustling as it was in the past? Will farmers still travel several li, or even dozens of li,
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The Sighs of Landless Farmers: Where Are the Livelihood Options?
When farmers lose their land, they lose the basic foundation on which their ancestors relied for survival for generations, lose the arena in which their traditional livelihood skills could be put to use, shatter the rice bowl of their descendants, disrupt the familiar environment in which clans had lived together for generations, sever the traditional bloodline of rural culture,
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Why is strengthening granary safety management urgent?
On October 8, a fire broke out at a granary of Sinograin in Hailin City, Heilongjiang, and the fire was not put out until around 7 a.m. on the 10th, lasting more than 50 hours. And on May 31 last year, a fire broke out at the Lindian Directly Subordinate Depot of Sinograin in Heilongjiang, causing 40,000 tons of grain to be affected by the fire. Now, more than a year later, a fire has once again occurred at a national reserve grain depot, causing serious losses to grain stocks, which is deeply regrettable!
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