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An Analysis of the Paradox of Rural Population Decline Amidst Expanding Area
As of 2014, China's urbanization rate had reached 54.7%, with a large rural population continuously migrating to cities. Theoretically, along with the outflow of population, villages should gradually shrink, but in reality, village size is expanding at an accelerated pace in a "pancake-spreading" and "crawling-along-roads" manner.
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China adjusts its food security strategy amid new trends in agricultural trade
After joining the WTO, China became the country with the most open and fastest-growing agricultural product market in the world, so today's food and food security issues are particularly important. In 2015, the national food security strategy was moderately adjusted, establishing the principle of moderate imports,
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Analysis of China's Agricultural Policy: Agricultural Modernization amid Rural Hollowing Out and Poverty
There was originally no cultivated land in the world. Humanity, in order to survive, continuously reclaimed land and water surfaces to obtain agricultural products. Land that can reach high yields through land consolidation and irrigation construction is called usable land; land with high reclamation costs is called difficult-to-use land; land where crop cultivation has reached the world average yield is called utilized land. The ratio of utilized land to usable land is called agricultural land utilization rate, which reflects a country's land use situation and reserve potential.
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High-quality wheat prices decline amid falling demand from flour milling enterprises
Currently, the purchase price paid by grain brokers for Gaoyou 2018 is 1.30 yuan/jin, and the purchase price for Shiluan 02-1 is 1.36 yuan/jin, both down by 0.05-0.07 yuan/jin compared with the purchase prices when new wheat came onto the market in June and July, said Yang Xinshe, a wheat trader in Baixiang County, Hebei Province. Since new wheat came onto the market this year,
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Reflections on Farmers Standing on Their Own Two Feet in a Market Economy
Introduction: After entering the market, farmers are drawn into a strange society full of uncertainty and risk; in the era of a subsistence-oriented economy in kind, farmers reaped a harvest for every effort they put in, but in the era of the monetary economy, effort does not necessarily bring a harvest. Edit
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China's corn production hits a record high
Just as the world's attention is focused on severe weather damaging the corn yield potential in the United States and Europe, Chinese farmers are expected to harvest a record corn crop this year. In its latest monthly report released last week, the International Grains Council (IGC) raised China's corn production
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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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When will the rice market emerge from the cold winter? Market sluggish amid sweltering heat
After entering June, temperatures kept rising, and domestic rice sales slowed noticeably. What followed was a decline in daily processing volume at factories and an increasing number of shutdowns for maintenance. Moreover, most factories said that for a long time, rice processing profits had already hit bottom or were in
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A Sober Reflection Amid the Rural E-commerce Boom: A Blue Ocean Is Not Everywhere
Against the backdrop of the "Internet Plus" era, traditional agriculture is being redefined. Spurred by policy support, industrial and commercial capital eyeing this blue ocean has been flowing into the countryside, especially after large companies such as Lenovo and Evergrande made cross-sector forays, making agriculture a red-hot investment field.
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Strawberries unsold amid cancer-causing acetochlor exceedance scare; prices fall in many places
Although the claim that strawberries had excessive acetochlor residues was later refuted by authoritative test results and industry experts, the earlier reports that "strawberry acetochlor residues exceeding the limit cause cancer" spread widely and quickly led to unsold strawberries in several major strawberry-producing areas, with prices falling sharply and growers and traders suffering serious losses.
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