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China has less than 9% of the world's arable land, yet uses one third of the world's chemical fertilizers
Guangzhou Daily News (Reporter Liao Jingwen, Correspondents Mo Danni and Chen Chengyue) China's arable land accounts for 8%-9% of the world's arable land area, but each year it consumes 35% of the world's nitrogen fertilizer. The abuse of chemical fertilizers not only leaves nitrogen oxide residues in agricultural products and degrades the ecology, but also directly worsens air and water
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Meat, Fruit, Eggs and Vegetables in a Tug-of-War, As Mild Inflation for the Year Gradually Approaches
Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, October 10 (Reporters Chen Aiping and Yuan Junbao) Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 10th show that in October 2014, the national consumer price level rose 1.6 percent year on year and was flat month on month. Among agricultural products, the prices of fresh eggs and fresh fruit rose year on year,
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Embracing Sustainable Agriculture, Exploring the Path of Green Ecological Farming
Every day, China must provide food for more than 1.3 billion people. Considering the complex process of getting food from farm to table, this achievement is astonishing. No other country needs to ensure food security on such a massive scale, and China's current achievement is unprecedented.
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New Aquatic Vegetable Planting Model Overcomes Continuous Cropping Obstacle
In recent years, the Jiangsu Province Aquatic Vegetable Efficient Production Innovation Technology Team, through collaborative research, has extensively carried out cooperation, exchange, integration and demonstration among collaborative groups of ecological and efficient planting models such as "melon and fruit vegetables - water caltrop", "early spring greenhouse water spinach - late autumn melon and fruit vegetables", and facility "mushroom - aquatic - dryland" ecological cultivation.
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How to solve the problem of unsalable agricultural products? E-commerce charity helps farmers crack the code
"After a week of effort, all 250,000 jin of charity apples in the Jiutu Village area of Yongping Township were sold out, recovering about 5,000 yuan in losses per household on average." At 10:28 p.m. on October 24, after posting this Weibo message through his mobile client, Pan Zhe, deputy county head of Li County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
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Winter storage vegetables growing well; China's vegetable production mode transition proceeding smoothly
Due to falling temperatures in Shandong, Liaoning, and the Beijing and Hebei areas, vegetables have gradually shifted from open-field to greenhouse cultivation. After the production mode transition and adjustment over the past period, the volume of vegetables arriving from outside southern regions such as Guangdong Province has decreased. In addition, some provinces and regions have successively entered
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China's agricultural IoT application shows notable results in five areas
Recently, the Agricultural IoT and Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Traceability sub-forum of the 2014 Agricultural Informatization Summit Forum was held in Qingdao, Shandong. Attending officials and experts believe that at present China's agricultural IoT application has shown notable results in five areas. According to the Ministry of Agriculture Agricultural Product Quality
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Good quality control in fresh food e-commerce is inseparable from a good cold chain
In recent years, companies rushing into the fresh food e-commerce sector have emerged one after another, and can be roughly divided into three categories: e-commerce platforms mainly represented by Tmall, Yihaodian, and JD.com; vertical e-commerce players such as Tuotuo Gongshe, Benlai Life, and SF Best; and traditional retail enterprises such as Walmart, RT-Mart, and Yonghui Superstores
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Leisure agriculture has achieved remarkable results in China's development
Since the reform and opening up, China's leisure agriculture has gone through the historical stages of emergence, start-up and all-round development. Since the 12th Five-Year Plan period, leisure agriculture in various regions has been advancing competitively and flourishing, showing the characteristics of an ever-expanding industrial scale, continuously rising development connotations, gradually enriching types and models, gradual transformation of development methods, and simultaneous improvement of comprehensive benefits, forming a sound momentum of "accelerated development, optimized layout, improved quality, and expanded fields". Across the country, diverse leisure agriculture types represented by farmhouse entertainment, folk custom villages, leisure farms and leisure granges have been developing competitively. Leisure agriculture management departments at all levels, responding to the rapidly growing demand for leisure consumption of urban and rural residents, have effectively promoted the sustained and healthy development of leisure agriculture through strengthening departmental cooperation, improving support policies, standardizing industry management, strengthening public services, and cultivating well-known brands.</p> <p> ——Industrial scale growing steadily. In 2013, nationwide leisure agriculture received 900 million visits, with operating revenue of 270 billion yuan, continuing to maintain a growth momentum of more than 15%. In the first half of this year, it received 500 million tourist visits, with operating revenue of 150 billion yuan, benefiting 30 million farmers. Tianjin Municipality, following the concept of "linking points into lines, linking lines into areas, and advancing as a whole", planned premium leisure agriculture routes, leading the upgrading of leisure agriculture; in 2013, its comprehensive leisure agriculture revenue was 2.63 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.5%. </p> <p> ——Rich and diverse industry types. The Ministry of Agriculture put forward requirements such as adapting to local conditions, scientific planning, rational layout and diversified development. Based on natural features, locational advantages, cultural heritage, ecological environment, level of economic development and consumption habits, various regions, on the basis of forms such as farmhouse entertainment, folk custom villages, leisure farms and leisure granges, have continuously innovated development types and expanded the economic, social, cultural and ecological functions of leisure agriculture, activating a region, giving rise to a number of industries, enriching a group of people, and building a paradise. </p> <p> ——Development methods gradually transforming. The Ministry of Agriculture and various regions, through standardized management, have continuously guided the healthy and orderly development of leisure agriculture; the industrial zones and industrial belts formed through development focus on functional linkage and complementary features, highlighting leisure experiences. The development mode of leisure agriculture has shifted from spontaneous development by farmers to planning guidance by governments at all levels; the operating scale has shifted from scattered distribution and dispersed operation to clustered distribution and intensive operation; the functional positioning has shifted from a single catering function to multiple functions such as leisure, education and experience; the spatial layout has shifted from the surroundings of scenic areas and urban suburbs to more suitable regions; and the operating entities have shifted from mainly farmer households to multiple entities. </p> <p> ——Brand building continuously advancing. The Ministry of Agriculture and various regions, through typical demonstrations, have continuously enhanced the social influence of leisure agriculture, and brand building has shown a sound momentum of "a hundred flowers blooming". At present, a total of 149 national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration counties and 386 demonstration sites have been created; 140 of China's most beautiful leisure villages, 248 of China's beautiful pastoral areas and more than 10,000 creative fine works have been recommended; and 39 China Important Agricultural Heritage Systems have been recognized, including 11 Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems. In the course of development, various regions have strived to build local leisure agriculture brands, developing and forming a large number of well-known brands such as the Nanjing Agriculture Carnival and Beijing Agriculture Carnival, the Yunnan Luoping Rapeseed Flower Festival, grassland vacations in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and Gansu, and village tours in Guizhou. </p> <p> Practice has proved that leisure agriculture is an industry that strengthens agriculture and enriches the people, conforming to the laws of economic, natural and social development, adapting to market demand and containing huge potential; it is a sunrise industry and emerging industry that benefits the country and the people, achieves multiple effects at once, and drives the overall situation. Leisure agriculture work is highly consistent with strategic measures being implemented by the state, such as modern agriculture construction, ecological civilization construction, integrated urban-rural development, and Beautiful China construction. The Ministry of Agriculture and leisure agriculture management departments at all levels have always adhered to reform and innovation in their work practice, focusing on six aspects to strive to promote the sustained and healthy development of national leisure agriculture: first, emphasizing organizational leadership, continuously strengthening work organization and top-level design around adding value and increasing efficiency for agriculture, increasing employment and income for farmers, and making rural areas beautiful and harmonious; second, emphasizing policy support, earnestly safeguarding farmers' interests, and strengthening guarantees in aspects such as financial rewards, project support and policy standardization; third, emphasizing planning guidance, further clarifying development ideas, principles, layout and priorities; fourth, emphasizing demonstration creation, continuously improving relevant standards and methods, and effectively giving play to the driving role of typical examples; fifth, emphasizing enhancing connotations, tapping cultural resources, and broadening the resource carriers for leisure agriculture development; sixth, emphasizing creating an atmosphere, carrying out a series of exhibition activities, and publicizing and promoting leisure agriculture from multiple perspectives. </p> <p> </p>
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China's Arable Land Quality Is Worrying, with Insufficient Inherent Soil Fertility
Arable land is the foundation of agriculture. Judging from a survey conducted by a China Economic Times reporter over more than half a month, at present, China's arable land has both a quantity problem and a quality problem. First, in terms of quantity, China's arable land area is 1.826 billion mu, less than 1.4 mu per capita, only
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