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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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New wheat purchase progress slow, market prices remain stable
New wheat purchase progress slow, prices stable. Last week new wheat entered the concentrated purchase period, with purchase progress slowing compared with last year, and the minimum purchase price policy dominating the market. Later, as large volumes of new wheat from the main producing areas come onto the market, the supply pressure of grain sources in the circulation market will gradually become prominent; at present, the policy-based purchase progress in the main producing areas is clearly lagging behind the same period last year, which also weakens its squeezing effect on the circulation market, and terminal demand will remain weak in the short term, making it difficult for wheat prices to gain obvious upward momentum.
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Higher summer harvest efficiency, with mechanized harvesting playing an indispensable role
In late June, the large-scale cross-regional mechanized harvesting in China's main wheat-producing areas was fully completed. This year during the "three summers," localities across the country invested a total of 560,000 combine harvesters, with a mechanized harvesting rate exceeding 92%. The agricultural authorities' meticulous organization and scheduling of the summer harvest, the promotion and application of a batch of new agricultural mechanization technologies,
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El Niño Arrives: Responding Scientifically to Achieve Stable Grain Output and Increased Income
The bulk of the year's grain production lies in the autumn grain, and the key to securing a bumper harvest lies in disaster prevention and mitigation. As the main flood season has now arrived, in order to actively and effectively respond to the El Niño phenomenon and safeguard autumn grain production, the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "Plan for Scientifically Responding to El Niño to Achieve Disaster Resistance and a Bumper Harvest
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