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Severe Drought Hits Many Parts of China, Grain Production Faces Challenges
According to Xinhua News Agency, as an important national commercial grain base, several major grain-producing counties in Jilin Province are currently suffering severe drought, among which 10 major grain-producing counties including Changling, Nong'an and Gongzhuling have seen the least precipitation since 1951, with some plots even yielding no harvest at all. Chief of the Jilin Provincial Meteorological Observatory
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Water-saving irrigation proves effective, calmly resolving the challenge of severe drought
In the face of a severe drought rarely seen in decades, crops in some areas of Henan and Liaoning provinces suffered serious damage, highlighting shortcomings in water conservancy facilities (see "In a Year of Severe Drought, a Test for Farmland Water Conservancy" in this section, August 19), but must a severe drought inevitably bring agricultural disaster? Not necessarily. On the road to modern ag
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What opportunities and challenges does the upsizing of agricultural machinery bring?
I. The trend toward larger agricultural machinery is becoming increasingly obvious. According to statistics from the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association on 21 major tractor enterprises (accounting for more than 85% of the tractor industry's output and output value) and 18 major harvesting machinery enterprises (accounting for more than 80% of the harvester industry's output value and output),
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Put drought-resistance efforts into practice during normal times, and you won't panic when drought hits; the follow-up investment challenge remains to be solved
Zhang Chunhai, a villager from Sanxing Village in Kailu County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, clearly remembers the rain in early May, when pattering raindrops merged into lines, flowing into the just-sown corn fields and also into his heart. Zhang Chunhai figured: at this rate, this year will be worry-free, and the corn harvest will certainly be
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How can the trust challenge in agricultural product e-commerce be solved? Experts offer their advice
E-commerce has become a hot topic of discussion, with endless streams of internet companies carrying out all kinds of innovation in new fields and new business formats, leaving people overwhelmed. And how to gain consumer trust is also a challenge faced by agricultural product e-commerce. Amid rapid development
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Land reform shelved, collective ownership faces challenges
Continuing to shelve reform of collective ownership and merely tinkering with the separation of the three rights makes it difficult to resolve the institutional predicament facing China's rural development. At a forum recently held by China Agricultural University, Liu Shouying, deputy director of the Rural Department of the Development Research Center of the State Council, put forward this argument
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What development challenges do large-scale growers face after transitioning to family farm owners?
Editor's Note: Recently, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in a speech at the FAO that agricultural modernization should be advanced on the basis of family management. Promoting appropriately scaled operations and developing modern agriculture on the basis of family management will help better feed China and also contribute to world food
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What are the difficulties in rural social governance? Analysis of the main challenges
Rural social governance, as a component of overall national governance, is an important factor in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. At present, the continuous advancement of urbanization has completely broken the previously relatively isolated state between China's urban and rural areas, and rural
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China's Food Security Faces Five Historic Challenges, How to Respond?
Food security is a very fundamental issue for China. Over the past decade, our country's grain output has increased continuously, and the self-sufficiency rate of cereals is close to 98%, achieving hard-won results. But at the same time, we must also recognize that our country's food security faces many complex and profound problems, many of which are new problems and new challenges arising along with economic development, requiring our careful study.
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Food security faces four major challenges, how should we respond?
First, the "inversion" of domestic and international grain prices, with domestic grain prices much higher than the international market, not only in important grains and legumes such as rice, wheat and soybeans, but also in cotton and dairy products. Without price competitiveness, it poses a relatively large threat to the security of the agricultural industry and to the growth of farmers' incomes.
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