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Effective supply of agricultural products and increasing farmers' incomes are the Ministry of Agriculture's priorities for next year
On the morning of December 22, the Ministry of Agriculture convened a meeting of the Party Leadership Group to relay and study the spirit of the Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Urban Work Conference, to intensively study the important speeches of General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, and to study opinions on implementation. Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, Minister
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Rural land reform needs holistic design: three basic recommendations for reference
Rural land system reform faces three most important aspects: market entry of collective operational construction land, paid withdrawal from homestead land, and narrowing the scope of land expropriation. From the current situation, institutional design shows a tendency toward fragmentation, and the three should be designed holistically and integrated into one.
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Animal Disease Eradication Opens a New Era for Animal Health
Recently, some executives of breeding livestock and poultry enterprises have been very pleased: in the first batch of animal disease eradication farms announced by the China Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center, 2 enterprises received the title of "Avian Leukosis Eradication Demonstration Farm," 4 enterprises received the title of "Swine Pseudorabies Eradication Demonstration Farm," and 31 enterprises received the title of "Animal Disease Eradication Development Farm."
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What growth dilemmas do new agricultural business formats face? An in-depth analysis by Half-Month Talk
At present, various new agricultural business formats such as urban leisure agriculture are growing vigorously. But in the course of their growth, as they become increasingly tightly integrated with factors such as capital, labor and land, some policy dilemmas have also emerged: some urban agriculture projects cannot obtain land-use quotas, so they directly start playing "edge-ball" games with land policy, or even use land illegally; some agricultural subsidy policies have poor "on-the-ground" results and provide insufficient support for the development of large-scale agriculture; some agricultural projects have accumulated a large amount of fixed assets on the land, yet these cannot become effective collateral and have become "dead assets" with no financing function. Under reform thinking, how should we respond to the "growth dilemmas" of new agricultural business formats?
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December Marks the Off-Season for Vegetable Supply, Affected by Rain, Snow and Low Light
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's Vegetable Production Information Network, vegetable supply in November was basically flat year-on-year, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose both month-on-month and year-on-year. In December, as the off-season for supply begins, North China, Northeast China and other areas are affected by prolonged haze, overcast skies and snowy weather, which is unfavorable for vegetable growth and development.
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Fresh Ideas and Methods for Building a New Agricultural Ecosystem
After the term "Internet Plus" proposed at the 2015 Two Sessions became hugely popular, every industry was brewing cross-sector integration with the Internet, and even the oldest and most traditional agriculture was no exception. Unexpectedly, "Internet Plus agriculture" was the first to grab the policy bonus. Entering
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What are the reasons for the low efficiency of fiscal support for agriculture?
[Too-long allocation channels, fragmented distribution mechanisms, mismatch between fiscal authority and administrative responsibility, imperfect official assessment and oversight mechanisms, and unscientific decision-making mechanisms are the main factors behind the low efficiency in the use of fiscal funds for supporting agriculture.] Since the beginning of the 21st century, the central government, on the basis of fully realizing the reduction and exemption of agricultural taxes and fees,
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Where are the key focus areas for the development of modern agriculture?
The 13th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for China's agriculture to transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture. The development of China's modern agriculture must, in accordance with the new domestic and international situations and environments currently facing agricultural development, clearly define the goals and key tasks for agricultural development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period.
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How high is the utilization rate of chemical fertilizers and pesticides? The Ministry of Agriculture releases data for the first time
On December 2, the Ministry of Agriculture released data on the utilization rates of chemical fertilizers and pesticides for the first time: in 2015, the fertilizer utilization rate for China's three major grain crops - rice, corn and wheat - was 35.2%, 2.2 percentage points higher than in 2013; the pesticide utilization rate was 36.6%, 1.6 percentage points higher than in 2013. This
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Vegetable brand building becomes the pressing task for the world's largest vegetable-producing country
On December 7, with the support of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the First China Vegetable Brand Conference, jointly hosted by the China Vegetable Circulation Association and the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and co-organized by the Guangxi Agricultural Products Circulation Association, was held in Nanning. The conference lasted
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