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Budget meat and vegetable stores see business slump, low-profit competition offers no way out
Can budget meat and vegetable stores attract people just by being cheap? Not necessarily. Recently, chain budget stores in Guangzhou have run into this problem. The store manager tried many methods: running promotions, but people came in one wave and then left; slashing the price of one type of rice, but because oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar did not drop in price, it still failed to attract people; the pork counter sat empty, and even with rent halved, no one came. Some experts say that in recent years this kind of homogenized meat and vegetable store has expanded in large numbers, lacking distinctive features, so poor operation is only to be expected. Budget meat and vegetable stores relying solely on low-profit "hand-to-hand combat" have no way out.
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Why do agricultural products become unsalable? A deep analysis of the main causes
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 were divided between joy and worry.
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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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Corn prices remain stable but weak, industry views and interpretation
Corn prices remain stable but weak. Entering July, from the perspective of the large domestic corn market, short-term market supply is sufficient, downstream demand remains weak, temporary storage auctions continue to be sluggish, the north-south port price inversion is severe, and corn substitutes continue to capture ports and sales area markets.
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How many hurdles must the potato clear to go from vegetable to staple food
On the plate it is a vegetable, in the bowl it is a staple food; for the tiny potato to make its counterattack transformation, how many hurdles must it still clear? In 2014, China's potato planting area and output each accounted for about 1/4 of the world's total, making it already the world's largest producer and consumer. This year, China launched the strategy for the development of potato staple food products and the industry, taking the potato, which is "water-saving, fertilizer-saving, pesticide-saving and labor-saving" to grow and nutritionally "perfect in every way," as a supplement to the three major staple foods of corn, rice and wheat for related product development.
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Grain production focuses on sustainable development, with the pace of change in agricultural development accelerating
The recent State Council executive meeting held that the work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers concerns the overall national situation and must be placed in a foundational position at all times. The meeting deployed accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development mode and taking a path of safe, efficient and green development. In recent years, the structural adjustment of the planting industry, herbivorous livestock
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Fertilizer application rates for fruit trees and vegetables in China have exceeded safe levels
The State Council Information Office held a press conference this morning, at which Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin briefed on the work related to the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution. When answering a reporter's question about farmers frequently and widely using agricultural film, pesticides and chemical fertilizers in large amounts, causing serious pollution
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Can you eat off-season fruits and vegetables? Read this and you will understand
Today, many people who pursue an organic lifestyle strongly emphasize one phrase: eat only what is in season. For example, eat loquats in spring, watermelon in summer, apples in autumn, and radishes in winter. They believe that off-season fruits and vegetables are very likely grown using some kind of chemical method
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Vegetable planting area slightly decreased at the end of July, supply guaranteed in August
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's Vegetable Production Information Network, vegetable supply in July decreased both year-on-year and month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose year-on-year and remained flat month-on-month. In August, the overall vegetable supply is expected to be guaranteed, with farm-gate wholesale prices trending upward steadily. In July, vegetable supply entered the summer slack season
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Favorable sunny weather across most of northern China helps autumn-harvest crops fill and mature
The reporter learned from the national agricultural meteorological bulletin released by the Central Meteorological Observatory of the China Meteorological Administration on September 6 that this week most of the southeastern part of northwest China and most of the southwest will see rainy weather, which is unfavorable for harvesting and drying mature crops. Most agricultural areas in the north will be mainly sunny
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