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Grain prices fall and large-scale grain growers can only break even - do farmers still want to grow grain?
Grain prices have fallen, but do farmers still want to grow grain? A survey from Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Large-scale grain growers can only break even, and enthusiasm for land transfer may be affected. On December 9, the Major Snow solar term had already passed, and northern Heilongjiang was freezing cold. A heavy snowfall from a few days earlier still lay thick in the fields, with stray bits of crop straw showing on top.
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Breeding seedlings on demand: farmers can grow whatever they want to plant
In recent years, the state has strongly supported the development of the national seed industry, issuing multiple documents and formulating multiple policies to push the national seed industry toward takeoff, and the dominant position of enterprises has gradually been clarified and strengthened. Yet since the founding of our country, a very large portion of scientific research investment has been placed in research institutes
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Can Potatoes Be Grown on Mars? NASA Will Conduct an Experiment
In the Hollywood film "Mission to Mars," the botanist played by leading man Matt Damon tries to grow potatoes on Mars, and this approach may soon become reality. According to a December 23 report by Hong Kong, China's Wen Wei Po, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with Peru's International Potato Center (CIP), will
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Grain Price Inversion Leads to Surge in Grain Imports: Farmers Cannot Sell the Grain They Grow
Grain Won't Sell, Grain Farmers Want to Cry but Have No Tears: Does China Have Too Much Grain? Author: Gao Yuanzhi, Zhou Mian, Wu Tao Source: Banyuetan Website Editor: Yuan Bixia Editor's Note: At present, China's grain production and grain market have some puzzling aspects: on the one hand, grain
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Investigation into the Three-in-One Agricultural Subsidy Reform: Why Can't Those Who Actually Grow Grain Get the Subsidies
Have the grain subsidies been delivered? Editor's note: For stabilizing grain production and increasing income, agricultural subsidy policy has played an indispensable role. However, as the agricultural and rural situation undergoes profound changes, the effects of subsidy policies implemented for more than 10 years are diminishing and their effectiveness is declining, making adjustment and improvement urgently necessary. In response to the current
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Integrated double-cropping maize technology is mature, and the North China Plain can now grow it
On July 13, harvesting began on the 200-mu double-cropping maize demonstration plot in Lianzhu Village, Henan Tuan Town, Quzhou County, Hebei Province. This is the earliest-harvested spring maize in Hebei Province and even in the North China region. The person in charge of the double-cropping maize trial and demonstration project, a professor at the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences of China Agricultural University
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How can the agricultural film industry grow from big to strong?
To meet the needs of agricultural production, after years of technological innovation and scientific research and development, China's agricultural plastics products industry has created several world firsts: the world's number one in agricultural film production; the world's number one in agricultural film coverage area, of which plastic mulching film coverage area is 380 million mu,
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Land Transfer Cannot Be Forced to Grow by Pulling Up Seedlings: Agricultural Transformation Requires Steady Progress
At present, China's agriculture is in a critical period of accelerated transformation. Whether traditional agriculture can smoothly achieve the leap to modern agriculture depends to a large extent on whether the process of land transfer and appropriately scaled management can advance steadily and in an orderly manner. With the successive introduction of policies to accelerate land transfer
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How can farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? Measures suggested
Selling for less than 1.70 yuan per kg, and still hard to sell - what is to be done! Speaking of corn yields and prices, farmer Yan Shanming of Shenwan Village, Lengji Town, Gucheng County, Hubei Province, said to this writer with knitted brows, higher output but hardly higher income makes one feel bitter. Yan Shanming, now in his fifties
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How can the problem of sustainable income growth for farmers be solved?
Today is the second day in Xiangyuan. Together with Xuan Dafeng, director of the county agricultural machinery bureau, we went to Guhan Town to visit households. The villages we visited are in a typical gully region of the Loess Plateau, where the land is poorly leveled. Construction workers' incomes are falling. Soon, we arrived at the first
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