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Microbial pesticides will become a new boost for agricultural production
At present, China has formed an industrial scale of more than 1,000 registered microbial fertilizer enterprises, with a production capacity of 10 million tons and an output value of nearly 20 billion. In recent years, China's microbial fertilizer production capacity has developed rapidly and steadily at an annual growth rate of more than 10%. Microbial fertilizers are popular because
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Domestic milk powder boosts the industry's revitalization with quality and fair prices
The high price of domestic milk powder has long been widely criticized by consumers, yet when domestic dairy companies launch low-priced milk powder they are questioned instead. In fact, domestic dairy companies have now broken with the traditional production and sales methods by using a new model of "global resources + internet thinking,"
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Agricultural Crowdfunding Project Ideas Boost Brand Agriculture Development
As a branch of internet finance whose popularity is soaring, crowdfunding is no longer unfamiliar to many people, but adopting the crowdfunding approach in the most traditional agricultural sector is still something new. Using online means to mobilize the power of the public to promote investment, entrepreneurship, public welfare and more in the "three rural" issues has already become a trend and a fashion, and its role in enhancing brand influence is also significant.
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Limited boost from favorable factors for japonica rice, little room for price movement up or down
In 2014, China's japonica rice output hit a new record high, estimated at more than 70 million tons, further increasing supply pressure, especially in major producing areas such as Heilongjiang, where the pressure was even greater, and market prices once weakened continuously. As various regions successively launched their japonica rice market-support purchase plans,
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New gene discovered that boosts super rice yields
The super rice germplasm innovation team of the China National Rice Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions, successfully isolated and cloned from the Zhejiang local large-grain variety "Baodali" a gene that can significantly increase super rice yields
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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Agricultural breeding stocks get a policy boost, sector performance draws attention
The State Council convened an executive meeting and decided to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; deployed accelerated development of rural e-commerce to boost consumption and benefit people's livelihoods by strengthening new business forms; and determined measures to promote the development of the express delivery industry,
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Small mushrooms in Qinggang, Heilongjiang boost regional specialty agriculture
In recent years, Qinggang County in Heilongjiang has continuously explored the development of new types of cultivation and specialty cultivation, striving to open up new ways to increase farmers' income. Edible fungi, as a short-cycle, quick-return wealth-building project, have gained favor and achieved vigorous development with the support of multiple policies. To date,
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Qingdao Promotes Bumblebee Pollination Technology to Boost High Yields of Tomatoes and Other Crops
As the depths of winter set in, tomatoes and strawberries in some of the city's solar greenhouses have begun to flower and set fruit. Recently, the Municipal Agricultural Technology Station held an on-site demonstration meeting on bumblebee pollination for greenhouse vegetables in Jimo to promote this technology. It is understood that using bumblebees to pollinate greenhouse vegetables is a low-
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Equal Exchange of Urban and Rural Factors Boosts Integrated Urban-Rural Development
Since the 18th National Congress, in Comrade Xi Jinping's important expositions on the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, he has repeatedly stressed the need to promote integrated urban-rural development, to promote the equal exchange of urban and rural factors, and to achieve balanced allocation of public resources between urban and rural areas. In the process of implementing the spirit of Comrade Xi Jinping's important expositions
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