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North China's groundwater overexploitation areas launch a battle for agricultural water conservation
In recent years, the groundwater overexploitation situation in North China's groundwater depression cone areas has become increasingly severe. It is necessary to make good use of rainwater and focus on water conservation, working on planting structure, drought-resistant varieties and water-saving technologies, to realize the transformation of agriculture from confrontational agriculture to adaptive agriculture, and from passive drought relief to proactive disaster avoidance
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Public Notice List of National Demonstration Cooperatives and Water Use Demonstration Organizations Released
On September 10, the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on the Development of Farmers' Cooperatives nationwide released in Beijing the public notice list of national demonstration cooperatives, with 4021 cooperatives and water use organizations entering the public notice stage of assessment. In accordance with the requirements of this year's Central Document No. 1 and the work arrangements made at the beginning of the year by the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on the Development of Farmers' Cooperatives nationwide,
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The phenomenon of rural industry grabbing water resources deserves reflection
I. Introduction After China's tax-sharing reform in the 1990s, with the upward centralization of fiscal power and the downward devolution of administrative authority in central-local relations, investment attraction became an important means for local governments to seek economic growth (Zhou Feizhou, 2006). Under a series of preferential
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Water-saving irrigation companies receive over 1.5 billion yuan in support, ushering in a good opportunity for development
According to the website of the Ministry of Finance, in 2014, the central government allocated 1.55 billion yuan in comprehensive agricultural development funds to support the construction of water-saving supporting renovation projects in key medium-sized irrigation districts, improving the comprehensive agricultural production capacity, especially for grain. Since July, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning and many other places
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How can dryland farming solve the water shortage problem?
Right now, the drought in China's Huang-Huai region has been effectively alleviated, but the drought in the Northeast region is still ongoing. In recent years, coping with large-scale, prolonged droughts has become the norm in grain production development. The 2007 summer-to-dog-days drought in the Northeast region, the 2009 winter-spring consecutive drought in the northern winter wheat region
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Medium-sized irrigation districts receive 1.55 billion yuan in central government support for water-saving upgrading and renovation
In 2014, the central government allocated 1,550,470,000 yuan in agricultural comprehensive development funds to support the construction of water-saving supporting renovation projects in key medium-sized irrigation districts, mainly used for dredging and lining seepage prevention of canals (ditches), improvement and renovation of branch and main canal (ditch) system structures, and the construction of modern irrigation
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Dryland farming breaks the water dilemma; nationally, the share of effectively irrigated area is limited
Right now, the drought in China's Huang-Huai region has been effectively alleviated, but the drought in the Northeast region is still ongoing. In recent years, responding to large-scale, prolonged droughts has become the norm in grain production development. In 2007, the Northeast region suffered a summer-to-dog-days drought; in 2009, the northern winter wheat region suffered a winter-spring continuous drought
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Ministry of Water Resources: Nearly half of China's cultivated land is still "rain-fed land"
The reporter learned from the National Rural Water Conservancy Work Conference held on the 27th in Bengbu, Anhui, that at present, the national effective irrigation area of farmland is 937 million mu, accounting for only 51.5% of the cultivated land area, and nearly half of the cultivated land is rain-fed land, lacking basic irrigation conditions. Ministry of Water Resources
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Farmland Water Conservancy Put to the Test in a Year of Severe Drought
Since entering July, a severe drought rarely seen in decades has been spreading across central and northeastern China. According to reports, 30.1 million mu of crops have been affected in Liaoning, and in some places, hundreds of thousands of mu of farmland have suffered total crop failure in contiguous patches. In Henan, the "granary of the Central Plains," the drought-affected area involves 13 provincially administered cities including Zhengzhou and Pingdingshan
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Water-saving irrigation proves effective, calmly resolving the challenge of severe drought
In the face of a severe drought rarely seen in decades, crops in some areas of Henan and Liaoning provinces suffered serious damage, highlighting shortcomings in water conservancy facilities (see "In a Year of Severe Drought, a Test for Farmland Water Conservancy" in this section, August 19), but must a severe drought inevitably bring agricultural disaster? Not necessarily. On the road to modern ag
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