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US Public Health Group: Multiple Quaker and Kellogg's Breakfast Cereals and Oats Contain Cancer-Causing Herbicide
A US public health group says its latest research found that a range of breakfast cereals, oatmeals and snack bars popular among American children have tested positive for excessive levels of the cancer-causing herbicide "glyphosate," with well-known brands among those affected. The UK's "Guardian"
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Strawberries unsold amid cancer-causing acetochlor exceedance scare; prices fall in many places
Although the claim that strawberries had excessive acetochlor residues was later refuted by authoritative test results and industry experts, the earlier reports that "strawberry acetochlor residues exceeding the limit cause cancer" spread widely and quickly led to unsold strawberries in several major strawberry-producing areas, with prices falling sharply and growers and traders suffering serious losses.
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Farmers Self-Breeding and Self-Using Seeds Allowed to Be Sold or Bartered Sparks Controversy
If individual farmers have surplus conventional seeds that they have bred and used themselves, they may sell or barter them at rural fairs without needing to apply for a seed production and operation license. This provision in Article 37 of the draft amendment to the Seed Law was highly controversial. On October 31, multiple members of the Standing Committee
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Relying on Processing Parks to Advance the Integrated Development of Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries
On November 26, the National Experience Exchange Meeting on the Construction of Agricultural Product Processing Parks and the Symposium on the Integrated Development of Rural Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Industries was held in Yichang, Hubei. The meeting emphasized that, based on regional specialty and advantageous agricultural products and supported by modern biological, information and equipment technologies, in accordance with
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Central Rural Work Conference convenes on the 22nd, focusing on modernization development
The Central Rural Work Conference will be held in Beijing on December 22 and 23. The conference will continue to focus on advancing agricultural modernization and rural reform. Central Rural Work Conference convenes on the 22nd, focusing on modernization. The Central Rural Work Conference is the most important annual meeting of the central leadership in the field of agriculture, rural areas and farmers.
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Ministry of Agriculture Releases First Agricultural Outlook Report, Focusing on Food Security in the Next 10 Years
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture released an agricultural outlook report for the first time, predicting that over the next 10 years, higher yields per unit area will become the main factor in agricultural production growth, and the agricultural industry chain will be further expanded and extended; market supply and demand for major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, sugar, meat, eggs and milk will continue to remain balanced.
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How can the reform of farmers' housing property rights be advanced steadily? Chen Wensheng and others offer suggestions
Since the reform and opening up, rural China has undergone earth-shaking changes, but the urban-rural dual structure has not been fundamentally changed, and the trend of the widening urban-rural development gap, especially the income gap, has not been fundamentally reversed. The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee proposed to give farmers more property rights
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Wheat Quality Fails to Meet Standards, Causing Grain Selling Difficulties in Central and Southern Henan
In the granary, over 1 million jin of wheat is piled into a heaping mountain. The grain harvest was bumper, but Peng Zhihe, a large-scale grain farmer in Runan County, Henan Province, has his brows knitted into a knot. Having been a farmer all his life, he has hoped for a full granary year after year, but this year the harvest was good yet the grain cannot be sold, which is deeply frustrating.
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Leveraging the Internet Plus to Expand Rural Entrepreneurship Platforms
With the advancement of various rural reforms, the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas are accelerating their integration, industry chains are continuously extending, and financial support is steadily being injected, unleashing enormous market space as a wave of rural entrepreneurship surges. New agriculture, new towns, new consumption, new farmers
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Vegetable labels are dazzling: why do vegetable prices differ tenfold?
Organic vegetables, premium vegetables, healthy vegetables, pollution-free vegetables, green vegetables... Nowadays, anyone buying vegetables is confronted with so many labels, and prices between different labels differ severalfold or even more than tenfold. Consumers say, with so many vegetables, which one to buy
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