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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Northeast Revitalization: Expanding Modern Agriculture and Enhancing Sustainable Development Capacity
CNR News, Beijing, November 10 (Reporters Guo Wei, Chi Song, Yu Zhongtao) According to China National Radio's "News and Newspaper Summary" report, Northeast China, as a major grain-producing region of the country, has always played an important role in stabilizing grain prices and safeguarding people's livelihoods. In recent years,
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Domestic japonica rice procurement progress accelerates year-on-year, prices overall stable with a slightly stronger bias
In early to mid-November, the harvest of the new-season japonica rice in Northeast China was basically completed, and japonica rice in Jiangsu and Anhui had also entered the final stage. Affected by weather, the quality of rice in Northeast China this year declined somewhat compared with last year. At the same time, boosted by policy-based procurement, various grain enterprises increased their market purchases,
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Southern China's rainfall to weaken over the coming week, favoring the wrap-up of autumn harvest and autumn-winter planting
Since November 4, 2015, most of southern China has experienced frequent overcast and rainy weather, with 9-14 rain days; cumulative precipitation in eastern and southern Jiangnan, western and northern South China and other areas has been 1-4 times more than the same period in normal years, and southern Hunan and Jiangxi, northern Guangxi and other areas have seen heavy to torrential rain for 3-
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