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Can People with High Blood Sugar Eat Millennium Cherry Tomatoes? Answers on Sugar Content and GMO Concerns
The Millennium cherry tomato is a fairly popular tomato-type fruit in recent years. Because it tastes better than ordinary tomato-type fruits, with a sweet-and-sour flavor, it is very well liked by the public. However, many people worry about whether the Millennium cherry tomato is a genetically modified food, whether its sugar content is high, and whether people with high blood sugar
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Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests: increasing yields through fertilizer worsens arable land quality
Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests. The National Bureau of Statistics website announced on July 12 that in 2013, the national total summer grain output reached 131.89 million tons, an increase of 1.96 million tons over 2012, up 1.5%; of which winter wheat output was 115.67 million tons, an increase of 1.48 million tons over the previous year, up 1.3%. 201
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Why farmers are reluctant to settle in cities: long-term concerns and immediate worries
■ Focus Observation. Gradually breaking down the household registration barriers is only the first step; exploring and establishing an exit mechanism for rural arable land and homestead land is the key to making migrant workers willing to settle in cities and towns. Recently, the State Council issued the "Opinions on Further Advancing the Reform of the Household Registration System."
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Conditions for Making Potatoes a Staple Food Are Ripe, but Concerns Over Price Fluctuations Remain
At a seminar recently held by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, advancing potatoes to become China's fourth-largest staple food crop was publicly proposed from a national strategic perspective for the first time, and it has also become a focus of heated public discussion in recent days. As of January 10, on Sina Weibo alone, views of the topic "potatoes become a staple food" had
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Food security: no immediate worries, but long-term challenges cannot be ignored
China's grain harvest has already been bumper for 11 consecutive years. Jiangsu's grain output last year also reached 68.9 billion jin, ranking fifth in the country, and it was also a high-yield year in recent years. Speaking about the reasons for China's consecutive bumper grain harvests, Xu
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Sharp increase in grain imports heightens food security concerns
On one hand, grain production has increased for eleven consecutive years; on the other, grain imports have hit a record high. Yesterday, Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out at the China Center for International Economic Exchanges' "Economic Monthly Talk" that last year China's imported soybeans and grains accounted for 10
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Why ecological civilization construction concerns people's livelihood and the future
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has consistently emphasized building an ecological civilization and safeguarding ecological security on various occasions, including important domestic and international meetings, inspections and research trips, and visits and exchanges. According to statistics, there have been more than 60 relevant important speeches and written instructions. Today's green mountains and clear waters
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The current state of the aquaculture industry is worrying, and these problems cannot be ignored
I am not a pessimist or a conspiracy theorist, but while everyone is enjoying the feast brought by the industry's chaotic times, I have a vague concern that stakeholders may not mind letting the chaos last longer. Although market conditions dictate the mood of practitioners, the aquaculture industry is still thriving
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Responding to farmers' concerns during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, clarifying the approach to agricultural development
On the 10th, after snow in Changchun gave way to clear skies, Han Changfu, a member of the Central Publicity Team for the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, who had once worked in Jilin Province, stood in front of the pile of corn at the gate of Jilin farmer Yuan Jin's home and asked: The price of corn has dropped a bit this year, has it had some effect?
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Declining Net Returns from Grain Farming: Who Will Grow the Grain Concerns National Food Security
For a long time, "who will grow the grain" has been an extremely important topic, since it concerns national food security. But it also seems not to be a problem, because as long as grain farming is worthwhile, someone will naturally grow it. So "who will grow the grain" ultimately comes down to how to ensure that grain farming is profitable, yet the grim reality is truly worrying.
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