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What to Do When Farming Doesn't Pay? Professional Farmers Step In to Crack the Problem
Most farming households in our rural areas now have just seven or eight mu of land, or a dozen mu; each household farms only this little bit of land, and the money earned from one mu of land is about the same as what you'd earn working in the city for a week. Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said, how
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Potato is an indispensable staple crop
[Conference in progress: NPC Standing Committee] NPC Standing Committee members hotly discuss the draft amendment to the Seed Law: Potato cannot be missing from staple crops. Guangming Daily, Beijing, November 1 (Reporters Yin Hong, Wang Yiyin). The 17th session of the 12th NPC Standing Committee
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National grain stocks hit a record high, with sales, transport and storage facing difficulties
Grain stocks hit a record high; experts urge reflection on price signals. China's grain stocks are climbing toward a record peak. Taking corn as an example, according to estimates by the China Grain Network, China's temporary reserve corn surplus has now reached as high as 150 million tons, while this year China's new-season corn
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Green concepts help agriculture achieve sustainable bountiful harvests
Bountiful harvest! Bountiful harvest! At the historic high point of our country's eleventh consecutive grain harvest increase, this year's autumn grain once again enjoyed a bountiful harvest. What is especially valuable is that this hard-won harvest ran the concept of "green" production increase through from beginning to end, most powerfully confirming with facts the correctness of the current shift in mode and adjustment of structure
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Fishery production develops steadily, industrial transformation and upgrading accelerate
This website news: Since the beginning of this year, the nationwide construction of modern fisheries has continued to take solid steps, fishery production has developed steadily, major policies benefiting fishermen have been introduced, and resource conservation work has been solidly advanced. Closely focusing on ensuring supply, transforming the development model, and adjusting the structure, the fishery system has sought innovation and change in developing modern aquaculture models, innovating marketing services, strengthening industrialized operations, increasing marine ranch construction, and advancing fishery informatization, carrying out many effective explorations and achieving relatively good economic and social benefits, providing new impetus for the transformation and upgrading of traditional fisheries toward modern fisheries.
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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How long until vegetables go direct from field to table?
In recent years, farmers' cooperatives in some cities have opened direct-sales stores in communities to sell vegetables, so that the vegetables grown by farmers go straight from the fields to the dining tables of city residents. This should be a good thing that benefits both residents and farmers, but many vegetable direct-sales stores are losing money. Why
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Autumn vegetable planting area slightly increased in September, with the peak harvest season arriving in October
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in September was basically flat year-on-year and increased month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose both year-on-year and month-on-month. In October, autumn vegetables will begin to hit the market in large volumes, and farm-gate wholesale prices for vegetables will edge down slightly, though the price level will remain higher than the previous year.
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Food waste is not only on the dining table; waste outside the dining table also cannot be ignored
When it comes to food waste, people's attention tends to focus on the visible waste at the dining table, yet they rarely pay attention to losses in the various stages after the harvest. Grain missed and not picked up by harvesters, fire and mold during storage, spillage during circulation and handling, excessive polishing during processing... According to statistics, in the post-production stages alone,
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Where is the grain market heading in 2016? Storage pressure remains considerable
After the bumper harvest: grain storage pressure remains considerable At present, China has achieved twelve consecutive increases in the summer grain harvest and eleven consecutive years of bumper annual grain harvests, but after the bumper harvests, the pressure on grain purchase and storage is considerable. Yan Bo, spokesperson for the State Administration of Grain and director of the Department of Policies and Regulations, introduced that our
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