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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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New food security goals can only be achieved with the rule of law safeguarding the security of the grain basket
Dialogue motivation October 16, 2015 is the 35th World Food Day, and the week it falls in is the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week. Food security has always been an overall major strategic issue concerning our country's national economic development, social harmony and stability, and national security and self-reliance. Our country
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Scaling up agriculture cannot focus only on land
China's basic national condition of a large population and little land determines that modern agriculture, on the issue of scaling up, cannot focus only on land; land can only be scaled up moderately, and efforts must be made in five aspects: industrial layout scaling, industrial chain scaling, organizational scaling, service scaling, and scaling of crop and livestock farming suited to factory production
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The grain issue cannot be reckoned only in economic terms; it must also be reckoned in terms of people's livelihood.
More than 1.3 billion mouths, every meal must be fed, not a single day can be broken; food security cannot be reckoned only in economic terms, it must also be reckoned in terms of people's livelihood. Does the fact that grain has been harvested abundantly for years in a row mean we can ease up on the drive to grow grain? Judging from the Ministry of Agriculture's crop-condition monitoring and the actual harvests in various places, the summer...
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Why the food issue cannot be measured in economic terms alone
More than 1.3 billion mouths to feed, every meal matters, not a single day can go without food. Food security cannot be measured by economic accounts alone; it must also be measured by people's livelihood. Does the fact that grain has been harvested abundantly for years on end mean we can ease off on the drive to grow grain? Based on the Ministry of Agriculture's crop monitoring and actual harvests across the country, the summer grain harvest is expected to reach a new high, laying a solid foundation for a bumper harvest for the whole year. With the support of the Party's policies to strengthen agriculture and benefit farmers, China's grain output has achieved an "eleven consecutive increases," and last year grain output stabilized at the 1.2 trillion jin level for the second time. As this year's summer grain harvest is once again abundant, some people sigh that since grain has yielded such high harvests for so many years, there is no need to keep pushing so hard on grain production. Such a sign is unacceptable; we must keep a very clear head.
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Balancing cultivated land occupation and compensation cannot be judged by numbers alone; quality matters just as much
Due to the long-accumulated impulse and inertia toward extensive land use, combined with multiple causes such as incomplete institutions, imperfect mechanisms and loopholes in supervision, the balance of occupation and compensation has been distorted in some places, even turning into a numbers game, making it hard to guarantee grain output,
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80% of fertilizers bought online are fake, and farmers who lose their entire harvest can only swallow their grievances
According to statistics from the central bank, in the first half of 2014, China's online shopping users reached 350 million, each person spent an average of more than 3,000 yuan, and total online consumption reached 1.05 trillion yuan, and this figure is still somewhat conservative compared with the e-commerce companies' own data. As online consumption increases, so does
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How can the problem of cheap vegetables hurting farmers be solved? It cannot rely only on timely help
In some vegetable-producing areas of Jinzhong, Shanxi, large quantities of fennel cabbage are stuck unsold, with no one willing to buy even at 0.1 yuan per kilogram, and many vegetable farmers' hard work for a year has come to nothing. Reporters learned that growing one mu of fennel cabbage, including seeds, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, plastic film, irrigation, etc.
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Advancing urbanization cannot mean only taking land and ignoring people
From the white mountains and black waters to the mountains and rivers within, although still in cautious adjustment, Wang Rulin's work style of having the right to speak only after investigation and his work method of focusing on the big province while starting with small villages have already left a deep impression on the outside world. On October 13, Shanxi's local party newspaper published
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Geographical indication product applications cannot just wait for people to come to the door
Recently, a media reporter learned from the Zhongshan Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision that Shenwan pineapple is planned to apply for national geographical indication product protection, and preliminary application preparations are currently underway. If the product passes approval, it will become the city's third national geographical indication protected product. Currently Guangdong
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