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National comprehensive agricultural mechanization rate expected to exceed 62% this year
File photo Since the beginning of this year, the national agricultural mechanization system, in accordance with the overall requirements of stabilizing grain production and increasing income, improving quality and efficiency, and driving development through innovation, has focused on implementing and improving policies, cultivating and developing entities, adjusting and optimizing equipment structure, making breakthroughs in mechanization of weak links, and promoting advanced and applicable technologies
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Breeding work for niche crops should not be neglected
How long does it take to breed a new crop variety? Older-generation breeders often tell me: ten years to breed one variety. This is no exaggeration. Even with off-season propagation in the south to add generations, traditional biological breeding techniques still require breeders to spend eight to ten years to select and breed a satisfactory
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What are the chemical fertilizer utilization rates for China's three major grain crops: rice, corn and wheat?
Zeng Yande, Director of the Planting Industry Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, revealed at a press conference on the 2nd that in recent years China has carried out an action to achieve zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and the utilization rates of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have steadily increased. According to scientific calculation, in 2015 China's rice, corn and wheat three major grain
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How to grow macadamia nuts? Cultivation and planting technical regulations of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Tropical Crops
Macadamia nut orchard (III) Soil management 1. Maintenance of planting strips Every dry season, the planting strips should be maintained together with weeding to ensure that the 2-meter-wide strip surface is level and sloping inward, exposing roots and earthing them up, and filling in depressions. On steep slopes where it is difficult to guarantee the width of the strip surface,
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Completion of Seed Work by the Jinghong City Crop Quality Testing Center
In accordance with the requirements of higher-level leading departments, the Jinghong City Crop Quality Testing Center has successfully and satisfactorily completed the tasks of supervisory spot checks and commissioned testing of seeds. In line with the principles of science, impartiality, and fairness, and in compliance with the relevant laws and regulations on seed testing. As of
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Vice Minister of Agriculture Li Jiayang: Commercial Cultivation of GM Crops Is Being Steadily Advanced
From November 16 to 18, during the 17th China Hi-Tech Fair, more than 300 agricultural genomics experts from home and abroad, from over a dozen countries and regions, gathered in Shenzhen for in-depth exchanges. Our country's scientific research level is rapidly approaching the international leading level on the whole.
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Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development: unified variety approval for major crops across the three regions
A reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Seed Management Station that, in order to promote the extension and application of excellent new crop varieties in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, in 2015 the agricultural departments of the three regions jointly issued the "Opinions on Establishing an Integrated Crop Variety Approval Mechanism for Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei." While retaining
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China Achieves Major Breakthrough in the Application of Mycotoxin Prevention and Control Technology for Grain and Oil Crops
Comprehensively Elevating the Quality and Safety Level of Grain and Oil Products According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), approximately 25% of the world's grain and oil crops are contaminated by mycotoxins each year. In China, due to individual farmer planting and storage practices as well as the high-temperature and high-humidity weather in the Yangtze River Basin and South China region
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Why has full mechanization of crop production become an irresistible trend?
To promote the transformation of agricultural development mode and accelerate the process of agricultural modernization, the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "Opinions on Carrying Out the Action to Advance Full Mechanization of Major Crop Production," deploying nationwide the action to advance full mechanization of major crop production.
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2015 Autumn Grain Harvest Approaching: Manage Well to Boost Yields
Editor's note: Due to the abnormal climate this year, with drought and little rain early on and continuous rain later, the seedling conditions of autumn grain crops, especially dryland grain crops, vary greatly, making crop management considerably more difficult, creating conditions for the occurrence of pests and diseases, and proving rather unfavorable to crop growth. In response
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