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A middle-aged couple switches to farming - from a two-fen plot to 1 hectare, growing perfect golden passion fruit
The sweet-and-sour taste of passion fruit is so addictive after one bite, making it a refreshing summer fruit. The vine-ripened red passion fruit at "Shihui Organic Farm" in Qishan, Kaohsiung, naturally ripens on the vine and drops into pre-set hanging nets. The farmers use nets to protect their hard-earned harvest, and also net the most perfectly balanced sweet-and-sour flavor!
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Analyzing the Path of Agricultural Modernization from a Soil Science Perspective
After more than twenty years of working in soil and fertilizer experiments, due to the unexpected results of two experiments and some other opportunities, my views on soil and fertilizer underwent a great change. I had collected some materials and, in 1972, published in the semi-monthly magazine "Harvest Year" Volume 22, Issue 1
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Over 100 million mu of damaged land nationwide urgently needs reclamation and reuse
A responsible official from the Ministry of Land and Resources revealed at the recent 2014 Beijing International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration that China has so far reclaimed a cumulative land area of about 30 million mu, and more than 100 million mu of damaged land has yet to be reclaimed and reused. According to the Ministry of Land and Resources Farmland
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China's farmers store about 500 billion jin of grain in stages every year.
A reporter recently went to rural areas of Pingdu County, Shandong, for interviews, and everywhere could see farmers drying grain on roads, with vehicles passing back and forth along roads covered with grain, leaving clouds of dust in their wake. Local farmers told the reporter that rural drying areas are now lacking, so they have
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Over 100 million mu of damaged land nationwide still has room for reclamation and utilization
A relevant official from the Ministry of Land and Resources revealed at the 2014 Beijing International Symposium on Land Reclamation and Ecological Restoration that China has so far reclaimed a cumulative total of about 30 million mu of land, while more than 100 million mu of damaged land has yet to be reclaimed and utilized. In recent years, China's mine ecological restoration
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Fresh produce is now the battleground, and no longer just a customer magnet
Over the past year, both brick-and-mortar retailers and e-commerce players have made fresh produce a core area of development, and recently each has been acting frequently. Upstream: Walmart established a central distribution center; Yihaodian launched "Specialty China," building a unique supply chain through a direct-from-origin model; Yonghui brought in Dairy Farm International, intending to strengthen its procurement channels.
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Small and medium-sized leisure agriculture enterprises and business operators encouraged by policy to obtain mutual guarantee financing
Beijing, December 1 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang): The Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a notice making arrangements for promoting the sustained and healthy development of leisure agriculture. The Notice proposes continuously improving support policies for leisure agriculture, advancing the implementation of existing support policies, and striving for policies such as enjoying agricultural charging standards for water
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Small-packaged oil will become a new profit growth point for the grain and oil industry
Under the dual pressure of falling soybean prices and sluggish consumer demand, small-packaged oil at retail terminals has nevertheless been one of the few success stories. Xiwang Foodstuffs' recently launched sunflower seed oil and olive oil have seen rapid sales growth, with outstanding results. As consumption levels rise, the consumption of small-packaged oil
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How can farmers' disadvantaged position in the financial system be changed?
Recently, some media outlets reported that certain rural specialized cooperatives have turned into counterfeit banks, swindling farmers out of their hard-earned money. Rural specialized cooperatives are a new type of rural economic entity strongly supported by the state. Why have these problems emerged in the rural financial sector? This is related both to the fact that China's rural specialized cooperatives are still at a primary stage and to the shortage of professional cooperative talent, the lack of a supervisory system, and weak institutional design, among other factors.
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The number of farmers working in China's bamboo industry reaches 35 million
At present, more than 35 million farmers across the country are directly engaged in bamboo forest cultivation, bamboo product processing and other production and business activities. China's bamboo industry has become one of the effective ways to increase farmers' income, and millions of bamboo farmers have become wealthy thanks to bamboo resources. This was learned by reporters at the recent International Symposium on Sustainable Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and the Bamboo Industry
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