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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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Returning home to start a business requires not only the courage to dare to fight, but also the know-how to fight smart
It is undeniable that migrant workers who return home to start businesses, after years of hard work and tempering, have mostly accumulated a certain amount of capital, learned the necessary skills, grasped some market information, and met the conditions for starting a business. Add to that the passion and perseverance of the new generation of migrant workers, who are more adventurous and entrepreneurial than
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The fruit unsalable dilemma: can Internet Plus turn it around
This year is a big year for Shanghai-grown fruit to go online. Fruit from some orchards has opened shops on Yiguo.com and several other well-known e-commerce websites, the Malu "Chuanlun" brand organic grapes have opened a flagship store on Tmall, products of the "Taoyong Peach Industry Professional Cooperative" have gone onto Yihaodian, and Songjiang Cangqiao crystal pears have entered the "Disanxian" e-commerce platform.
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The layer hen industry is accelerating its transformation: what does the future hold?
As a veritable major producer of layer hens, for a long time the farming method has nevertheless been dominated by small and medium-scale farms of fewer than 10,000 birds, with the prominent industry characteristic of "small scale, large population." In the course of its development, problems such as overcapacity, weak chick-rearing capacity and insufficient deep-processing capacity
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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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Potato as a staple food: industrialization draws ever nearer, but how far is it from the ordinary dinner table?
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing higher and higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time. The potato is a major food that is rich in nutrients and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat and
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Northeast corn holds steady, imports rise markedly
This month, Northeast corn was basically stable. According to market information, by the end of the month the ex-warehouse price of standard-grade corn was mostly 2150-2200 yuan/tonne in Heilongjiang, mostly 2250-2280 yuan/tonne in Jilin, and 2280-2300 yuan/tonne in Liaoning. Analysis shows that in July, corn in the Northeast region
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