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Why have corn prices fallen, and how big is the impact on farmers?
After a heavy snowfall, a grain broker came to the home of corn grower Zhao Jincheng to inspect the grain. "Now it has to be graded as third-class; it doesn't make second-class." "If it's third-class, after deducting freight and delivering it to the destination, it can only sell for 0.71 yuan." The corn price fell from 0.90 yuan per jin in 2014 to 0.71 yuan per jin this year. Neighbors and relatives all stored their corn, waiting to see how the price would move. But Zhao Jincheng urgently needed money, so he had to sell even at a low price, because he still had a loan to repay as soon as possible.
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How should characteristic agriculture develop in the New Silk Road Economic Belt, and how should the government set the stage?
A recent study argues that agricultural development in the Silk Road Economic Belt must not blindly follow the old path of scaling up and homogenization, but should leverage local ecological advantages and cultural resources, combine internet thinking, modern marketing concepts and various new business models,
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Handan's vegetable industry is showing encouraging development momentum
[ Lead-in China Vegetable Network ] In the depths of winter, the reporter came to Yongnian County's ten-thousand-mu arched shed production base, where vegetable greenhouses stood neatly arranged, stretching out of sight. Opening a greenhouse at random, rows of fennel seedlings were a lovely green. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, our city's
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How Brand Agriculture Can Embrace New Opportunities in the Capital Era
Editor's Note In modern corporate operations, brand management is often a company's core business strategy and an important criterion by which the capital market evaluates a company, determining whether the company can obtain greater development opportunities. The same is true for the agriculture industry. For brands to grow bigger and industrial clusters
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Against the backdrop of a large population and limited land, why does China's grain sector show the coexistence of "three highs"?
According to data recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the total national summer grain output in 2015 was 141.066 million tons, an increase of 3.3% over 2014. With this, China's summer grain achieved twelve consecutive years of bumper harvests. While total grain output keeps climbing, China's grain imports have also been growing rapidly.
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Fake and substandard agricultural supplies are targeting left-behind elderly people - how can we prevent this?
Recently, Hongze County in Jiangsu heard a case involving fake and substandard agricultural supplies that cheated and harmed farmers. The criminal suspect is suspected of the crime of producing and selling substandard pesticides, mixing chemical fertilizer with water to make fake pesticides and boasting them as a "special-effect medicine" that could treat rice blast, selling them specifically to defraud left-behind elderly people.
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Wheat, Corn and Other Grain Prices Are Falling: How Can the Plight of Grain Farming Be Solved?
The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently held a training session on the "two-deep, one-shallow" simplified cultivation technique for wheat in Matou Town, Dongming County. Photo by Cao Fengqin. Falling grain prices have once again dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. They have also had a negative impact on land transfers and large-scale operations, with signs even emerging of contractors withdrawing from leased land.
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Is the simultaneous increase in the three grain quantities too much or too little, and how should it be tackled?
This year China's summer grain achieved a twelfth consecutive bumper harvest. Last year, China's grain production remained stable above 1.2 trillion jin for two consecutive years. At the same time, grain imports exceeded the 100 million tonne mark for the first time. In the first 7 months of this year, 72.568 million tonnes of grain were imported, up 22.4% year on year. This has left many people puzzled.
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How Can Small-Scale Land Contracting Move Toward Large-Scale Management?
Land trusteeship is a model in which, while keeping farmers' land use rights unchanged, farmers' status as operating entities unchanged, and farmers' status as beneficiaries unchanged, new types of operating entities such as farmers' cooperatives and large grain growers, in accordance with farmers' requirements, exercise unified management and unified services over their contracted land.
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Where does the difficulty for farmers in getting loans lie, and how can it be solved?
Since April last year, the central bank has repeatedly cut reserve requirements in a targeted way for the agriculture, rural areas and farmers sector, releasing liquidity that has reached a scale of one trillion yuan, which will play an important role in promoting the sustainable development of our country's agriculture, rural areas and farmers. However, although farmers' demand for loans is very strong, rural households are currently
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