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Corn market enters the off-season early, buying and selling in Hebei, Shandong and Henan turn cold
Recently, reporters traveled through the vast rural areas of Henan, Hebei and Shandong, where neatly stacked corn cribs could be seen everywhere, with some farmers' doorways even piled with more than 10 corn cribs about two meters high. Corn traders traveling with the reporters from Futures Daily
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The phenomenon of young people being unwilling to return to their hometowns to farm should arouse vigilance
What is preventing young people who go out to work from being willing to return to their hometowns to farm? Today, this is not a topic that is deliberately made to sound profound. When rural young people prepare for their careers, they seldom take becoming a professional farmer as a future goal. Apart from those born in the 1950s and some born in the 1960s, among the village people who consciously choose to be a professional farmer, those born in the 1970s are unwilling, those born in the 1980s do not know how, and those born in the 1990s do not even discuss it.
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Organic food should not be hyped into a luxury
■If organic products are to win a broader market, the approach of going the luxury route and simply raising prices probably will not work. Pricing that is out of touch with reality not only fails to play the leveraging role of spurring demand, but instead leaves consumers with the impression of hype and unreliability.
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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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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland launched with central government financial support
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland" (hereinafter referred to as the "Overall Plan") approved by the State Council, recently the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, together with the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant departments, issued the 2014 annual task of returning farmland to forest and grassland of 5 million mu to ten provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Shanxi and Hubei, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Of this, 4.83 million mu was for returning farmland to forest and 170,000 mu was for returning farmland to grassland.
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Grasslands in northern China begin to enter the withering period, and forage grass gradually turns yellow
The Grassland Supervision Center of the Ministry of Agriculture adopted methods of satellite remote sensing, ground observation and analysis combined with meteorological data to monitor and analyze the withering status of forage grass in the grasslands of northern China. The results show that as of September 20, about 60% of the grasslands in northern China had already withered. I
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Good tea comes down to earth as tea consumption returns to reason
Core tip: As the autumn tea season for Anxi Tieguanyin (Anxi Tieguanyin tea) arrives, reporters visited several townships in Anxi County and found that the weather has been favorable this year. During the autumn tea picking period, the weather was cool with no rain, the autumn tea quality was very good, tea values are gradually returning to reason, many merchants are shifting to focus on the mass consumer market, and residents can drink good tea while spending less. The Anxi tea industry is in a period of actively advancing tea transformation and upgrading. Reporter Zhang Xiaoming, text/photos
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Guidance on field management techniques has become an urgent need for farmers
Recently I returned to my hometown in the countryside and found that some farmer friends, when preventing and controlling crop diseases and insect pests, spray pesticides without targeting the specific problem. This not only increases production costs but also fails to achieve good control results. Since the beginning of autumn, the weather in Wuhu City has been continuously overcast and rainy, which is extremely conducive to various
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Forestry Bureau Officially Launches a New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest
On September 25, the 2014 plan task of returning 5 million mu of farmland to forest and grassland was officially issued, marking the official launch of a new round of the farmland-to-forest program. On September 28, the State Forestry Administration held a national teleconference on the implementation of returning farmland to forest, to implement the
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In 2014, all localities were assigned a task of returning 5 million mu of farmland to forest and grassland
According to news from the Ministry of Finance website, on September 25, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the State Forestry Administration, the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ministry of Land and Resources, in accordance with the overall scale of the new round of returning farmland to forest and grassland approved by the State Council and the 2014 task arrangements, and in light of the sloping farmland above 25 degrees in various localities and
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