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How can agricultural subsidy funds truly benefit farmers?
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, from 2008 to 2014, the central government allocated a cumulative total of more than 119.1 billion yuan to support the renovation of dilapidated rural houses. This year's government work report pointed out that efforts to renovate dilapidated houses in urban and rural areas will be intensified, with 3.66 million rural dilapidated houses to be renovated. "Xinhua Viewpoint"
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Investigation and Reflections on How Water Conservancy Projects Can Boost the Building of a Major Grain-Producing City
As one of the 20 national commodity grain bases, Xiangyang has for many years insisted on firmly grasping grain production without slackening, ensuring an "eleven consecutive years of increase" in grain output, especially after breaking through the 10-billion-jin mark in 2012 and maintaining the 10-billion level for three consecutive years, thus making its due contribution to establishing Xiangyang's status as a major grain-producing city
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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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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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How can big data lead agricultural development? Zhang Xingwang shares his views
The photo shows Zhang Xingwang, director of the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture. (Image source: Sina Finance, photo by Liang Bin) Sina Finance News - The 2015 4th China International Agribusiness Summit Forum was held in Beijing on May 17. Zhang Xingwang, director of the Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, suggested using big data to lead China's
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Exploring China's Food Security Issue and Its Solutions
China's housing area is less than half that of the United States and 2/3 that of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany; when per capita housing area reaches 35 sq m, it equals that of the United Kingdom and France. The green coverage rate is not high because there are many high-rise and super-high-rise buildings; China's per capita residential land area of 5 sq m ranks at the bottom worldwide, less than the land area for cattle and horse pens - truly worse off than cattle and horses, living in overcrowded houses without natural wind or natural light, and the sports areas in residential compounds cannot accommodate 1% of the residents for outdoor fitness and exercise. According to estimates by relevant experts, without exercise, or with 3 hours of exercise a day or running 5 km, one would need to eat 30% less grain.
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Garlic Prices Surge Sharply Again Before Spring Festival
On the day of the Laba Festival, Ms. Yu had a sudden urge to make some Laba garlic, but when she asked at the market, the price of 7.5 yuan per jin really startled her. Ms. Yu said that in her hometown of Henan, there is a custom of eating vinegar-soaked garlic on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month - it tastes good and can kill bacteria. She just remembered
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Farmer in Guangzhou Approved for Arrest for Using Highly Toxic Pesticide on Green Beans
Reporters recently learned that the Zengcheng District Procuratorate of Guangzhou recently approved the arrest of a vegetable farmer surnamed Huang Mouguang, who used the highly toxic pesticide isocarbophos while growing vegetables, on charges of producing and selling toxic and harmful food. Following a procuratorial review, it was ascertained that in November 2015, grower Huang Mouguang
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What are the four major chaotic phenomena of illegal occupation of arable land?
Using the form of "renting instead of expropriation" to enclose land, and then rapidly building factories and houses on arable land; under the pretext of developing ecological agriculture and high-efficiency agriculture, leasing arable land but actually using it to build factory buildings and factories; a small number of village officials even help do the villagers' work and become accomplices in illegal occupation of arable land
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