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10 provinces and regions launch pilot projects for converting grain to forage, industry calls for deeper progress
For grain farmers, the 2015 autumn grain harvest season was a bit cold: as soon as the new corn hit the market, it suddenly encountered relatively sharp grain price fluctuations, and not only did the income they had expected shrink, but in some areas it also became difficult to sell grain. Yet amid the cold winter, a glimmer of brightness also appeared.
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Ministry of Land and Resources Strictly Controls the Total Amount and Pace of Converting Agricultural Land to Construction Land
Recently, data from the 2011 national land change survey released by the Ministry of Land and Resources shows that China's cultivated land stock has remained at 1.82476 billion mu, and the trend of net reduction in cultivated land has been effectively brought under control. Since 2009, the national cultivated land stock has remained above 1.824 billion mu for 3 consecutive years, which indicates
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How should the "grain-to-feed" conversion be carried out? Actively explore development paths suited to actual conditions
This year's Central Document No. 1 clearly proposed accelerating the development of the grass-based livestock industry and carrying out pilot projects for grain-to-feed conversion and the integrated crop-livestock model. This year's government work report also made specific arrangements for this. Vigorously promoting grain-to-feed conversion, with the adjustment of corn planting structure as the focus, advancing the shift of grain crop planting toward forage crop planting
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Corn Becomes the Focus of Structural Adjustment: A Third of the Nation's Corn Acreage May Be Converted from Grain to Forage
In Shandong, a major grain-planting province, more than 80% of grain corn is used as livestock feed, while the nation's feed grain still depends on imports of 100 million tonnes per year. Under the food security strategy, grain used for livestock feed has been brought into policy consideration. In a recent public
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State Forestry Administration Presses Ahead with the New Round of Sloping Land Conversion Program
On May 8, the State Forestry Administration held a video scheduling meeting on the Sloping Land Conversion Program. Zhang Yongli, Deputy Director of the State Forestry Administration, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He required pressing ahead despite difficulties and innovating methods to fully carry out the current Sloping Land Conversion Program work and consolidate its achievements. State Forestry Administration
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The ban on converting farmland to non-agricultural use is here: what benefits can farmers enjoy?
Li Keqiang: Hold the red line of farmland, fully carry out the work of designating permanent basic farmland, and implement actions to protect and improve farmland quality. Do a good job in land rights confirmation, registration and certification, and prudently carry out pilot reforms such as rural land expropriation, market entry of collective operating construction land, the homestead system
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More paddy fields in southwest China converted from water to dry land, undermining disaster resilience and the ecological environment
Paddy fields seen everywhere in southwest China are facing a crisis: more and more are being converted from water to dry land, more are being left abandoned, and their number keeps shrinking. This not only directly affects agricultural production but, more importantly, paddy fields in the southwest also serve as a huge water conservation area, and their destruction poses no small hidden risk to agriculture
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Grain-price conversion faces challenges: can land transfer achieve win-win outcomes for all parties?
In rural land transfer, the "grain-price conversion" model is generally adopted, whereby after villagers transfer their land, the land rent is calculated at the market price equivalent of a certain number of jin of rice per mu. A reporter's frontline investigation in rural Sichuan found that some villagers are already dissatisfied with this model, and Sichuan has explored various forms of benefit-sharing linkages such as land equity participation, seasonal sharing, and reverse leasing and subcontracting, to solve the difficulty of sharing benefits between villagers and operating entities.
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Minister of Agriculture: Farmland must never be converted to non-agricultural use; farmers may move into non-agricultural work
Qiushi, Issue 19 of 2014, published a signed article by Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, stating that the national food security strategy under the new situation must be fully implemented. The article points out that we must resolutely hold the lifeline of farmland. This is where the lifeblood of national food security lies. Farmland
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Town-to-city conversion requires accelerated reform of supporting systems
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice on comprehensive pilot projects for new-type urbanization, requiring each province to select eligible cities and towns at different levels as pilot projects to report to the NDRC, especially for towns with a population of over 100,000
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