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Agricultural products hit by unsalable surpluses year after year: the bigger the harvest, the heavier the loss
Recently, unsold watermelons have appeared in many places across the country, and melon farmers have found themselves in the awkward predicament of "the bigger the harvest, the heavier the loss." In the face of the strange cycle of unsalable agricultural products that appears year after year, apart from complaining about unfavorable weather, what exactly are the root causes of the "unsalable-surplus disease"? Toiling hard yet struggling to recover costs
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China has identified more than 1.2 billion mu of unpolluted arable land
The China Geological Survey recently released the Report on the Geochemical Survey of Arable Land in China (2015). This is the first time China has carried out a "health check" on arable land nationwide. The report shows that China has identified 1.272 billion mu of unpolluted arable land, accounting for 91.
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Favorable news for corn growth as precipitation increases recently in the Huang-Huai region
According to the agricultural weather forecast issued by the National Meteorological Center on June 25, precipitation is expected to increase over the next week in China's Huang-Huai region, the southeastern part of the Northwest region, and southern Shanxi, among other places. There will be moderate rain in western and southern Huang-Huai and the southeastern part of the Northwest region, and western Huang-Huai and
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China's organic vegetable market is large, but farmers need to invest with caution
The 2015 China International Food Safety and Innovation Technology Exhibition opened in Beijing on June 11. The three-day exhibition attracted nearly a hundred companies, including well-known domestic and international enterprises such as COFCO, Zhonghe, and Nestle. At the exhibition, food companies, regardless of size,
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Where was the 6th China Vegetable New and Superior Varieties Expo held?
Recently, the 6th China Vegetable New and Superior Varieties Expo was held at the China Youth Vegetable Industry Entrepreneurship Park in Pudong New Area, Shanghai. With the theme "Enriching the World's Vegetable Basket," this Expo featured both booth displays and field displays. In a 3-hectare field, 2,050 new vegetable varieties from domestic and international seed companies and more than 350 superior varieties newly developed by the National Bulk Vegetable Industry System were displayed. Thriving tomatoes, peppers, bitter melons and others attracted more than 1,500 attendees, including representatives and vegetable professional cooperatives from horticultural farms around Shanghai, and more than 300 cooperation agreements were signed.
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The Poverty Alleviation Paradox: The Government Pours in Money, but Farmers Sink Deeper into Losses
In a certain area in western China, a rabbit-breeding craze once sprang up to help people escape poverty. The government pooled funds of various kinds to support it, and at its peak the rabbit population approached 400,000. But market conditions changed drastically, and in just 5 years the industry scale shrank to fewer than 70,000 rabbits. Many farming
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Organic farming is about more than just growing vegetables; building ecological trust is fundamental
Every week, Fujita, a Japanese housewife living in Beijing, receives a home-delivered box of organic vegetables, though she has always felt these vegetables taste far better than ordinary vegetables sold on the market. But it was not until she visited the production base of these vegetables herself that she
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China Never Has Too Much Arable Land, and More of It Gives Better Conditions for Raising Agricultural Competitiveness
The more arable land there is, the better the conditions for raising China's agricultural competitiveness, and the easier it is for farmers to specialize. The most effective way to protect arable land is not to rely on administrative orders, but to let market mechanisms play a greater regulatory role. Recently, national leaders prominently emphasized
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South floods and north drought strike: respond actively to ensure stable grain output and increased income
The main flood season has now arrived. Affected by the El Niño event, global meteorological disasters are frequent and widespread, China's severe convective weather is widespread, intense, and accompanied by heavy hail damage, rainstorms are frequent in the south, persistent high temperatures have occurred in some northern areas, and precipitation and temperatures in some regions have broken historical extremes
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Wetland protection faces considerable pressure, and the current state of China's wetlands is not encouraging
Remote sensing monitoring is more accurate and objective, and has gained international recognition. Compared with traditional monitoring technologies, monitoring using remote sensing satellite technology has obvious advantages such as being macroscopic, dynamic, rapid, real-time and accurate, and in particular it minimizes interference from human factors and ensures
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