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Modern agriculture development showcases China's confidence
From facing the yellow earth with back to the sky to farming easily with a click of the mouse; from wearing masks and carrying sprayer tanks to calling on a mobile phone and letting "dragonflies" do the spraying; from peddling through streets and alleys to building a sales empire on WeChat Moments; from crowdfunding to enlighten poor villages to PPP for soil improvement... On the vast fields, wonderful stories of modern agriculture keep emerging.
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Poverty alleviation and assistance: from back-to-back to hand-in-hand
After several consecutive days of gloom, the weather finally cleared up, and the chill in the mountain hollow was swept away. At the demonstration base of the Xingnong Chinese Medicinal Herbs Cooperative in Huibao Village, Daoba Town, Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province, the Atractylodes macrocephala planted at the beginning of the year had reached harvest time. On the slope, several farmers had their jackets open, straining with effort as each Atractylodes macrocephala plant was pulled up by the roots, the soil knocked off, and the tubers that had slept for nearly a year were nourished plump and endearingly sturdy.
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Prices of Some Vegetable Varieties in Yingkou Fall Back
[ Lead China Vegetable Network ] Since mid-November last year, temperatures in our city dropped sharply, and coupled with continuous rain and snow, low temperatures and scant sunshine, this greatly affected vegetable production and transportation in our city, causing market vegetable prices to rise generally. According to the prices of 2 monitored by the price department at the end of November
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Don't Let Backdoor Grain Selling Break the Hearts of Grain Farmers
Since the beginning of this year, Henan, a major grain-producing province, has encountered difficulties in selling grain after a bumper harvest. Queuing to sell grain has become the norm, and in some places there have even been cases of selling grain through the "backdoor": paying the quality inspector 500 yuan per truck as a "kickback" allows the grain to go straight through quality inspection and weighing. This bizarre grain-selling situation undermines the country's preferential agricultural policies.
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Selling Grain Once Requires a 500-Yuan Kickback, Grain Production and Marketing Trapped in a Dilemma
Xinhua News Agency, Zhengzhou, Nov. 12 (Reporter Zhang Xingjun) A reporter's continuous tracking interviews along Henan and other places found that from the start of summer grain purchasing to the concentrated listing of autumn grain, due to consecutive years of bumper grain harvests, the continuous one-way rise in the minimum purchase price, and high state-owned inventories, the phenomenon of difficulty in selling grain has begun to emerge
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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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Ministry of Commerce: The national backbone network for agricultural product circulation is gradually showing results
Summary: Regarding the construction of the national backbone network for agricultural product circulation, including the development of pilot projects such as public-interest wholesale markets for agricultural products and cross-regional agricultural product circulation infrastructure, Shen Danyang said that overall these efforts have been progressing smoothly and their results are gradually emerging.
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Grain prices too low hurt farmers again, with low grain prices and piled-up stockpiles the main causes
China had a bumper grain harvest this year, but farmers are hardly happy, because the sharp drop in grain prices could send their incomes plunging. Since the start of autumn, corn and wheat prices in the main grain-producing areas have all fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices has been especially pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of
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Xi Jinping's US visit brings back a big agriculture package, helping to better feed China
From September 22 to 28, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to the United States and attended the series of summits marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. During the visit, China and the United States reached consensus, with the theme of strengthening agricultural innovation, promoting food security, and advancing sustainable development, on food
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Periodic Tightening of Wheat Supply and Demand Pushes Prices Back Toward Policy Price
The scope of the launch of the minimum purchase price policy for wheat in major producing areas has further expanded, which is expected to drive the start of a periodic market trend for wheat. As grain sources in the domestic circulation market further decrease, combined with the consumption of inventory grain sources by flour processing enterprises, the new wheat circulation market will show a pattern of "declining supply and rising demand"
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