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Serious harm from excessive fertilizer use: how can we farm the land and nourish it at the same time?
At present, China consumes 59 million tons of chemical fertilizer each year, accounting for 35% of the world's total consumption, a 2-fold increase over 30 years ago, causing serious environmental problems, said Chen Wenxin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the national soil microbiology academic symposium held a few days ago. In recent years, with
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How can the problem of cheap vegetables hurting farmers be solved? It cannot rely only on timely help
In some vegetable-producing areas of Jinzhong, Shanxi, large quantities of fennel cabbage are stuck unsold, with no one willing to buy even at 0.1 yuan per kilogram, and many vegetable farmers' hard work for a year has come to nothing. Reporters learned that growing one mu of fennel cabbage, including seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, plastic film, irrigation, etc.
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Training a large contingent of full-time agricultural workers to solve the problem of no one to take over farming
Author: Bi Xiaozhe Normally, young people are basically nowhere to be seen in the village. Chen Maosheng, a professional grain-farming farmer in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, said with no small worry that he is already 55 years old, and that it has become a common phenomenon for middle-aged and elderly people to farm. For now, at least, someone is still farming the land, but
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Machines Replace Farmers in the Fields, and Humans Reap the Harvest Without Lifting a Finger
The next time you stand in line at the supermarket checkout, spare a thought for the farmers who fill your shopping basket. These days they are having a hard time, and you will certainly have to pay more for food because of it; for the millions around the world who cannot get enough to eat,
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The claim that farmers have no successors is just mawkish sentimentality
"Ordinarily, you basically never see young people in the village." Chen Maosheng, a professional grain-growing farmer in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, said with no small worry. He is already 55 years old, and he said that farming by middle-aged and elderly people has now become a common phenomenon. At least there are still people farming the land now, but in another ten
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A good time for capital to enter the seed industry has arrived
"Social capital entering the seed industry is entering a good period this year." On October 15, the second investment cooperation roundtable of the Modern Seed Industry Development Fund was held in Beijing, and attending representatives made the above judgment at the meeting. Liao Xiyuan, deputy director of the Seed Management Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at the meeting that currently
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Carbon sink trading gives farmers their first monetary returns from forest management ecological services
On the morning of the 14th, the Zhejiang Provincial Branch of China Construction Bank purchased in Lin'an the first batch of carbon sink emission reductions generated by the forest management of 42 local farmers. This is the first order of farmer forest management carbon sink trading, and also the first time farmers have obtained monetary returns from forest ecological services since the forest tenure reform
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Egg and pork prices fall for the first time, a lower CPI increase in September becomes the consensus
As egg prices and pork prices, which have an important impact on household consumption, saw their first decline after consecutive rises, a lower CPI increase in September has also become the consensus in the industry. On October 15, the National Bureau of Statistics will release the September CPI and PPI figures. China
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High-tech transformation of traditional agriculture has become the trend of the times
If you want to ventilate the rice seedlings in the seedling shed, you only need to pick up your phone at home and press a few keys to open the rolling shutter door of the seedling shed - a high-tech scene from Hollywood movies has now been realized in the intelligent rice production of Qixing Farm in the Heilongjiang reclamation area.
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Autumn tea picking is in full swing, and the National Day holiday is a busy time for harvesting tea
On October 2, tea farmers pick autumn tea at an ecological tea garden on the outskirts of Zhaoping County, Hezhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. During the National Day long holiday, tea farmers in Guangxi, Hubei and other places are still busy in the tea gardens, going up the hills to harvest autumn tea. Photo by Xinhua (Huang Xuhu). October 2, tea
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