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What are the benefits of chili peppers? Boosting circulation and increasing satiety
Chili peppers are used to speed up circulation, increase bioavailability, and enhance the effects of other spices. If you have ever eaten chili peppers, no one needs to tell you that they speed up the body, because you will sweat and feel their effects. The most widely used medicinal
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Cost-saving and efficiency-boosting techniques for wheat cultivation help farmers cut costs and increase income
Among China's three major grain crops, wheat is the crop with the largest consumption as a staple food, the largest trade volume, and the highest growth rate in per-unit yield. To achieve stable grain output and increased income, and to improve quality and efficiency, in 2016 we will continue to carry out research focused on high wheat yields, cost savings and efficiency gains, and water control and reduced use of pesticides and fertilizers.
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Great potential for wheat in shoring up weak links, boosting agricultural supply-side reform
The Central Rural Work Conference held on December 24-25, 2015 proposed the agricultural supply-side structural reform for the first time, charting the course for agricultural and rural work in 2016 and the 13th Five-Year Plan period. The conference pointed out that efforts should be focused on strengthening the agricultural supply-side structural reform, improving the quality and efficiency of the agricultural supply system, so that the quantity, variety and quality of agricultural product supply meet consumer demand, and truly form an effective supply of agricultural products with a reasonable structure and strong guarantees.
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Guangdong's Winter Planting Breaks New Ground: Stabilizing Grain, Boosting Income, Ensuring Supply
The Start of Winter has passed, and all parts of the province have successively entered the busy winter planting season. Walking through the fields, the atmosphere of rural winter planting is very strong. In Meizhou, farmers are busy in agricultural supply stores selecting seeds and seedlings, fertilizers and pesticides and other production materials; in Shaoguan, sprinkler irrigation systems are watering continuous
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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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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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How can the livestock industry ensure supply and boost income at the same time?
In the just-concluded 2014, Xinjiang's livestock industry achieved encouraging results. According to data from the animal husbandry department, at the end of the year the region had 55.33 million head (animals) of livestock on hand, up 4.2% year on year, 59.77 million head (animals) slaughtered, up 4.5% year on year, and total annual meat output of 2.68 million
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How Agricultural Distance Education Is Boosting the Development of Modern Agriculture
The social structure of rural China is undergoing profound changes unprecedented in history. With the rapid development of the social economy and the breakthrough progress of urban-rural integration, the world's largest-scale transfer of rural labor has taken shape. Of the more than 800 million rural population, over 260 million farmers have already moved to cities for employment.
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Cloud Farm Continues to Lead Internet Plus Agriculture, Boosting China's Agricultural Development
Driven by the rapid penetration of the Internet and policy support, agricultural e-commerce is currently spreading like wildfire, and capital from all sides is actively positioning itself to seize this new blue ocean. At the end of 2014, China's leading large-scale investment group - Legend Holdings - made a strategic investment of tens of millions of US dollars in Cloud Farm, in order to
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Four departments issue document to advance modern agriculture demonstration zone construction, boosting agricultural modernization
The Ministry of Agriculture website reported on the 24th that the Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, and the China Banking Regulatory Commission issued guiding opinions on solidly advancing the reform and construction of national modern agriculture demonstration zones to take the lead in achieving agricultural modernization. Currently, China has entered the key stage of accelerating the transition from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture
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