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Xiji, Ningxia Accelerates the Renewal and Upgrading of Improved Potato Varieties
In 2015, Xiji County seized the opportunity of the state launching the strategy of making potatoes a staple food and the autonomous region designating Xiji as a pilot county for making potatoes a staple food, strengthened the implementation of measures, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the potato industry. First, increase funding input. It mainly supported the potato three
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Multiple seed companies accelerate commercial breeding: good varieties fear no bad market
This year's spring and summer planting seed sales season, for seed companies and the entire industry, is both the worst of times and the best of times. The market is poor, and heavy inventory pressure remains the biggest difficulty commonly faced by seed companies. Taking corn seed as an example, although the hybrid corn seed production area has fallen sharply for two consecutive years and inventory has dropped to 1 billion kg, based on the national hybrid corn seed production area and inventory change trends, changes in corn seed inventory generally lag behind changes in seed production area by about two years. According to this pattern, the first quarter of this year exactly corresponds to the peak in seed production area two years ago.
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International Soy Growers Alliance Lobbies China to Approve Genetically Modified Varieties
On April 21, at the 2015 Biotechnology and Global Soy Trade Forum held in Beijing by the International Soy Growers Alliance (ISGA), a 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned through an interview that the International Soy Growers Alliance will communicate with China's Ministry of Agriculture, hoping that China's policy authorities
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The number of major crop varieties subject to approval was reduced from 28 to 5
On April 20, the much-anticipated draft amendment to the Seed Law was first submitted to the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress for deliberation. The draft comprehensively regulates aspects such as strengthening the protection of germplasm resources, improving the institutional mechanisms for breeding innovation, and strengthening oversight and management of the seed industry. Germplasm resources are the material foundation of modern
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Afraid of buying fake seeds, farmers try multiple varieties like running experiments
Li Zhongming, a farmer from Qing'an County in Suihua City, went around more than 10 dealerships in the Heilongjiang Provincial Seed Market but still could not find suitable seeds. Li Zhongming told the Economic Information Daily reporter that his family has more than 4 shang (one shang equals 15 mu) of land, and in recent years he would choose
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Forage maize varieties are world-leading, so why are they hard to promote?
This year's Central Document No. 1 pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the development of the grass-livestock industry, support the planting of forage crops such as silage maize and alfalfa, carry out pilot projects for converting grain to feed and combining planting with breeding, and promote the coordinated development of the three-way planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage. Silage maize,
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Edible oil prices fall, oil companies may shift to deep processing of multiple oil varieties
Recently, monitoring results from the National Grain and Oils Information Center show that from January to October 2014, China imported a total of 56.8440 million tons of soybeans, a year-on-year increase of 13.75% compared with 2013. At the same time, the average price of imported soybeans reached a low point in October. The decline in edible oil prices is regarded as a point of industry
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Rising Temperatures Reduce Wheat Yields: It Is Not Too Late to Breed New Varieties
If adaptive measures are not taken, for every 1°C rise in temperature in the future, global wheat production could fall by 6%, which would cause a worldwide reduction of 42 million tonnes, equivalent to 1/4 of the current global wheat trade volume. In feeding the global population, wheat plays
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State grain reserves auction opens in January, four major varieties totalling 15 million tonnes
The reporter recently learned from the State Administration of Grain that relevant departments will hold a special national policy grain competitive bidding session in Anhui from January 6 to 8, 2015, auctioning four major varieties of state reserve grain: wheat, japonica rice, indica rice and corn. It is understood that the varieties and quantities in this auction are divided into
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The proportion of wheat varieties with excellent steaming and cooking quality reached over 50%
The reporter learned from the 2014 Wheat Quality Evaluation and Wheat Quality Improvement Seminar that in 2014 the Ministry of Agriculture continued to organize wheat quality testing, laboratory analysis and expert on-site evaluation activities. Based on testing and evaluation
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