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Rural Water Pollution Becomes a Stubborn Problem: Cleaning Up Water Reaches the Last Mile
In recent years, the rural water environment situation has been severe. Livestock and poultry farming, household waste and other sources have become important sources of water pollution, arousing widespread social concern. In many places, preventing and controlling rural water pollution is both an important matter and a difficult one. This year the State Council issued the "Water
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Grain Bank Solves Farmers' Grain Storage Problem
Zhengzhou Lianwanjia Agricultural and Sideline Products Professional Cooperative is located in Langchenggang Town, Zhongmu County, Henan Province. After the cooperative was established in 2012, it contracted 2,600 mu of land in one go, planting wheat and corn on the south bank of the Yellow River, and subsequently contracted contiguous land in two more rounds. By 2014, the grain planting scale
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Why Plastic Mulch Is Hard to Recycle: The Problem Lies in the Mulch Itself
After more than 30 years of development and application, plastic mulch coverage has become one of the most important agronomic techniques in our country, and in the northwest region it has even created a situation in which agricultural production cannot be carried out without plastic mulch coverage. At present, on the one hand, plastic mulch coverage has been incorporated into national and local agricultural
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Zero tolerance must be upheld on the issue of milk powder quality
Recently, two pieces of news about domestically produced infant formula milk powder drew public attention. First, the State Food and Drug Administration conducted a special sampling inspection of infant formula milk powder and detected 11 batches of samples that did not meet national standards and posed food safety risks. Second, a certain domestic
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China's grain output, imports and stocks all rising at once: what new problems does this pose?
In 2014, China's annual grain output achieved an 11th consecutive increase, basically remaining above 600 million tons, and at the same time, China's grain imports also grew rapidly. The reporter learned that over the whole of last year, China's grain imports exceeded 100 million tons for the first time, while according to data released by the General Administration of Customs on the 8th
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Northeast China's black soil long overburdened, degradation and loss problems growing increasingly serious
In the past, a chopstick stuck in the ground would sprout; now, how come fertilizer is applied but grain still won't grow? In Zihe Village, Erjing Town, Bei'an City, Heilongjiang Province, village party branch secretary Yan Zhongjie dug less than 30 cm with a shovel and exposed yellow earth. The black soil layer has dropped from an average of 60 to 70 cm in the 1950s to
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What three major problems can Internet Plus Agriculture solve?
On July 25, the 2015 Agricultural Products and Agricultural Industry Development Summit Forum was held in Beijing. Chen Xiaohua, Vice Minister of Agriculture, who attended the event, said that how to use advanced information technology to transform traditional agriculture, enable agriculture to achieve leapfrog development and rapid growth, thereby bridging the urban-rural
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An agricultural problem or a farmer problem? Looking at China's current stage of development
I. China's Current Stage of Development and the Choice of Development Strategy After more than 30 years of rapid development since reform and opening up, China has successfully moved from the ranks of low-income countries into the ranks of middle-income countries. It is currently in a critical period of transition from economic growth to economic development, from low-end processing and manufacturing
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Why is the unsalable produce problem related to government overreach?
Since the start of summer this year, reports about unsalable agricultural products have once again appeared frequently. From nectarines in a certain northern province to lychees in some southern regions, this should have been a season of bumper harvests, yet farmers are feeling either joy or worry. Unsalable agricultural products, apart from being related to severe weather
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The phenomenon of premature harvesting of Chinese medicinal herbs is alarming, with the problem of early picking particularly prominent in mountainous areas
Recently, the author learned during interviews that due to the rising purchase price of the Chinese medicinal herb Forsythia suspensa (weeping forsythia) over consecutive years, many villagers in the remote mountainous areas of Huguan County, Shanxi Province have been rushing up the mountains to pick immature Forsythia suspensa, causing serious waste and destruction of wild medicinal herb resources. It is understood that since
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