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State Farm Assets Alone Exceed One Trillion Yuan; Ministry of Agriculture Acknowledges Problems with State-Owned Assets
China News Service, December 7 (Report) Yang Shaopin, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, said today that for a long time, due to constraints from various quarters, the ownership of state farm state-owned assets has not been very clear, the responsibilities of the investor are not very well defined, and management has not been fully in place, which to a certain extent has caused
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Phosphate Fertilizer Market Analysis: May Stand Alone in the Fertilizer Market
Recently, crude oil prices have fallen, affecting many related markets, but the phosphate fertilizer market has maintained a good trend over the past year, and now the months of May and June, when demand was at its lowest, have passed. After this, domestic demand will gradually start up, and even if prices fall, the pace will not be too fast.
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Low temperatures alone are not enough to guarantee frozen food safety
The new version of the "Food Safety Law" will take effect on October 1, 2015. One of its highlights is that it provides a special elaboration on the issue of food transportation, begins to pay attention to safety monitoring of food throughout the entire supply process, and uses legal means to strongly push forward the upgrading of the cold chain logistics industry.
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Why the food issue cannot be measured in economic terms alone
More than 1.3 billion mouths to feed, every meal matters, not a single day can go without food. Food security cannot be measured by economic accounts alone; it must also be measured by people's livelihood. Does the fact that grain has been harvested abundantly for years on end mean we can ease off on the drive to grow grain? Based on the Ministry of Agriculture's crop monitoring and actual harvests across the country, the summer grain harvest is expected to reach a new high, laying a solid foundation for a bumper harvest for the whole year. With the support of the Party's policies to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers, China's grain output has achieved an "eleven consecutive increases," and last year grain output stabilized at the 1.2 trillion jin level for the second time. As this year's summer grain harvest is once again abundant, some people sigh that since grain has yielded such high harvests for so many years, there is no need to keep pushing so hard on grain production. Such a sign is unacceptable; we must keep a very clear head.
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Balancing cultivated land occupation and compensation cannot be judged by numbers alone; quality matters just as much
Due to the long-accumulated impulse and inertia toward extensive land use, combined with multiple causes such as incomplete institutions, imperfect mechanisms and loopholes in supervision, the balance of occupation and compensation has been distorted in some places, even turning into a numbers game, making it hard to guarantee grain output,
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Treating "chemical fertilizer dependency" cannot rely on farmers alone
Agricultural experts repeatedly say that excessive application of chemical fertilizers creates a vicious cycle of "the more fertilizer applied, the thinner the soil becomes," leading to soil degradation, reduced grain yields, and non-point source pollution, seriously endangering our country's food security and affecting the sustainable development of our country's agriculture.
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Phasing Out Toxic Pesticides Cannot Be a Burden on Farmers Alone
Phasing out toxic pesticides is farmers' business, yet it is not entirely a matter for individual farmers. Besides intensifying the investigation and punishment of pesticide varieties that have been explicitly banned, the state should also vigorously develop highly efficient, low-toxicity biological pesticides. At the same time, it should establish and improve the ecological agriculture industry chain, and through special
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Why is offshore aquaculture like gambling, with risks that must be borne alone?
The power of No. 9 Typhoon Rammasun was shocking: when Rammasun made landfall in Wenchang City, Hainan on July 18, its maximum central wind force reached force 17, making it the strongest typhoon to make landfall in South China since 1973, and also the strongest among the typhoons that have made landfall in Guangdong and Guangxi since 1949.
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Organic agriculture cannot rely on producers alone
In Jiangjiazhuang Village, Pingyi County, Shandong Province, Jiang Gaoming, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rented a 20-mu farm, growing corn, soybeans and wheat, and also raised more than 100 head of cattle. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and no agricultural film, additives or herbicides. After three years of cultivation,
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How is live abalone food testing done, and why does it violate the Food Safety Act
First case this year! Live abalone from China was transported in violation of regulations without passing inspection, was stopped by the relevant authorities, and under the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, was sent by the Taoyuan City Health Bureau to the Food and Drug Administration for adjudication. If there is in fact illegal sale, the maximum fine will be 20 times the market price.
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