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Large-scale cooling and precipitation in winter wheat regions benefit safe overwintering of winter wheat
This website news: Affected by a relatively strong cold air mass, since January 24, the central and eastern regions of China have experienced the largest-scale cooling and rain-snow weather process since the beginning of winter. This cooling and precipitation process is beneficial for increasing soil moisture in winter wheat regions, alleviating insufficient surface soil moisture in some wheat fields, and enhancing the cold resistance of winter wheat
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Why has chemical fertilizer off-season storage decreased for the first time?
Since China established the commercial off-season storage system for chemical fertilizer in 2004, the volume of off-season chemical fertilizer storage had only increased and never decreased, rising from 800 million tons at the beginning to 1800 million tons in 2013, with an average annual growth of 125%. However, this year the volume of off-season chemical fertilizer storage fell for the first time. In this round, storage enterprises with an off-season chemical fertilizer storage volume of 50000 tons or less made no change, those with 100000 to 200000 tons reduced their contracted storage volume by 20%, and those with more than 200000 tons reduced their contracted storage volume by 25%.
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Organic Vegetables and Meat Appear in Banks: Gimmick or Crowd-Puller?
More and more community banks are launching lifestyle services and taking a differentiated route. "Crossover" is no stranger to most people, but recently a newly opened community financial convenience store in Shunde New Town has attracted considerable attention. This newly opened community bank took a different approach,
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Brand Agriculture Promotion Service Platform to Make Its Debut Soon
Establishing a brand agriculture promotion platform became an important outcome of this China Brand Agriculture Development Conference. Attending experts believe that at present, China's agricultural brand building has set sail, but still lacks a clear ideological, theoretical and policy system, and the overall level of development remains
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Low prices are only the surface; overcapacity is the main cause
In recent years, although wheat prices have risen slowly, they remain strong compared with processed flour, giving rise to the phenomenon of "strong wheat, weak flour." A reporter recently learned from an investigation of several flour processing enterprises in Henan Province that the problem of overcapacity is prominent, and overall poor profitability has become
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Mainland Agricultural Product Prices Caught in a Recurring Cycle of Rises and Falls; Supply-Demand Imbalance Hurts All Parties
Mao Yugui, a 60-year-old vegetable farmer in Lanzhou, lost money on all four mu of cauliflower he planted this year. The price slump in cauliflower, which has been on the market for nearly a month, has dealt the old man a heavy blow: since mid-July, cauliflower prices began falling from 1 yuan per jin (RMB, same below), down to 1 jiao, 5 fen... until no one would even ask about it, and in the end it could only be dumped or fed to livestock.
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Why has drought appeared in many places this year? Experts say the drought may continue
In recent times, high temperatures have occurred across most of northern China, further intensifying soil moisture evaporation and causing the drought to spread rapidly across various regions. Meteorological experts believe that in summer, it is fairly common for some parts of China to experience either drought or flooding. At present, the main grain-producing areas have not formed large-scale drought, but grain output in some local areas with more severe drought has been greatly affected
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Food rumors keep appearing on social media: what harm do they do?
The Food Sanitation Division also urges the public to maintain "reasonable doubt" toward rumors circulating online; unless they can be confirmed as true, it is better to let rumors stop with the wise and not forward or spread them further. Those who cannot tell true from false can provide the relevant information to the Food Sanitation Division, or go online and
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How do you tell if an avocado is ripe? When is the best time to eat it
Avocado is a high-energy, low-sugar fruit. In terms of health benefits, avocado helps strengthen the stomach and cleanse the intestines, and has important physiological functions such as lowering cholesterol and blood lipids and protecting the cardiovascular and liver systems. It is suitable for infants, young children and the elderly, and it is recommended to eat one a day
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African swine fever appears in Vietnam for the first time; how should the latest outbreak be prevented?
African swine fever has developed particularly severely in China, so screening at airports is also very strict, and the baggage of passengers at ports is also subject to very strict checks. But what about it? On the Vietnamese side, no news of African swine fever had been reported, so the screening of the baggage of tourists traveling from Vietnam was not subject to such high requirements. However, on February 15, a piece of pork from Vietnam was confirmed positive for African swine fever, the first case of African swine fever from Vietnam.
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