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Cultivating New-Type Professional Farmers to Boost Modern Agricultural Development
At the end of 2013, the Central Rural Work Conference made an overall plan for the cultivation of new-type professional farmers, and 2014 became a breakthrough year for this work. Amid widespread public concern over who will farm the land in rural areas in the future and how to farm it well, farmer education and training work has moved proactively forward, targeting mainly large specialized households, family farm operators, the backbone members of farmer cooperatives and agricultural successors, vigorously cultivating new-type professional farmers, and exploring the establishment of a "three-in-one" new-type professional farmer cultivation system integrating education and training, certification and management, and policy support.
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Pest and disease prevention and control reduce disasters and losses, boosting the eleventh consecutive increase in grain output
Drought breeds insects, damp breeds disease; the climate is unpredictable, and pests and diseases occur every year. This year's climate changes have caused biological disasters such as pests and diseases to occur frequently and severely. Agricultural departments at all levels, with a high degree of self-awareness and firm confidence, have never relaxed their grip on pest and disease prevention and control, snatching grain from the mouths of insects to ensure a bumper harvest
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How Can Informatization Help Optimize and Upgrade Agriculture
Advancing the building of agricultural informatization is a powerful lever for promoting the optimization and upgrading of the industrial structure of agriculture and rural areas. Under market economy conditions, whether the agricultural structure can be optimized and adjusted depends on whether the price signals of products and factors are true and accurate; price signals are
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Another Outstanding Year for Grain Production, With Science and Technology Playing a Remarkable Role
This year, grain production withstood multiple tests, including severe natural disasters in certain areas, frequent biological disasters, and a volatile market environment, achieving a strong defense of high output levels and a climb from a high base, with science and technology playing a key role. At the same time, with an eye to tapping the potential for increasing grain output, this year the Ministry of Agriculture
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Integrated development of the entire agricultural industry chain needs the boost of an agricultural entrepreneurship mechanism
The state has formally proposed the new direction for agriculture's future development, and integration of the entire industry chain is imperative. Many people in the industry believe that integrated development of the entire agricultural industry chain needs the boost of an agricultural entrepreneurship mechanism. Jinshan, a distant suburb of Shanghai that is currently building itself into an entrepreneurship-oriented urban district, has already begun
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Green prevention and control helps agriculture cut costs, boost efficiency and ensure safety
Report from this website: According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2014 the area under green prevention and control for major crop pests and diseases nationwide reached 920 million mu-times, accounting for 20.7% of the total pest and disease control area, an increase of 7.2 percentage points over 2006. Integrated green prevention and control of crop pests and diseases comprehensively applies agricultural control, physical control
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Two-Pronged Approach in the Poultry Industry Pushes Development to a New Level
Recently, cases of H7N9 influenza have appeared again in some provinces of China. Vice Minister of Agriculture and National Chief Veterinary Officer Yu Kangzhen said during a recent investigation of H7N9 influenza prevention and control work that animal husbandry and veterinary departments at all levels should adopt a two-pronged approach, proposing "prevention and control of disease on one hand, and industrial development on the other
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Growing Grain Can Be Profitable Too: A Large-Scale Grain Farmer Shares His Tips for Boosting Income
Everyone says growing grain does not make money, but last year I made a net profit of five or six hundred yuan per mu! Taking stock of the harvest at year's end, Yu Jialong, the only national-level large-scale grain farmer in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province last year, was beaming with joy. Yu Jialong is 45 years old and lives in Nandatan Village, Gaodu Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu Province. Growing grain
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Accelerated Land Transfer Boosts Intensive Agricultural Operations
Taoyuan County is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, with a total area of 4,442 square kilometers and 1.338 million mu of cultivated land, making it a typical major agricultural county. In recent years, following the concept of modern agricultural development to expand scale, improve quality, and strengthen brands, we have made rural land transfer the central task of our work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.
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Target Price Reform Helps Restructure and Transform the Cotton Industry
In 2014, China launched a pilot reform of the cotton target price in Xinjiang, and at the same time abolished the temporary cotton stockpiling policy nationwide. How is the pilot reform progressing? What results have been achieved? What room for improvement remains in actual practice? On these questions, the reporter interviewed
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