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Grape orders plummet by 70 percent, small farmers call for bulk group purchases by companies and communities
Grapes hang heavy on the vines, yet farmers in Dacun, Changhua pick them with great anxiety. After the domestic pandemic alert was raised to Level 3, people's consumption shifted from physical stores to online, causing orders from restaurants and fruit shops to drop; when "Upstream and Downstream" actually asked farmers' associations and farmers in the production areas, it found that grapes in the Dacun area are mostly sold directly by farmers, with a small portion sold on their behalf by the farmers' association. With school closures, staggered work shifts and unstable logistics and delivery conditions, orders have fallen sharply for both the farmers' association and the farmers, with farmers' orders down by more than 70 percent. Last year's warm winter also caused grapes in Nantou to mature early, so the grapes from both areas clashed head-on, which is quite unfavorable for sales.
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Analysis of the Milk Powder Industry: Intensifying Competition Due to Declining Birth Rate
Judging from the birth rate statistics released this year, the domestic infant milk powder market is ushering in new changes, and the sales gap between domestic and foreign-funded milk powder brands is gradually narrowing. What is going on here? Let's take a look below. In what is called the "strictest milk powder new policy in history"
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Global insect numbers continue to decline, and many insects are beyond saving from extinction
Global insect numbers are falling rapidly, did you know? A group of international scholars recently published a large-scale study indicating that insect numbers worldwide are declining fast, and if the situation continues, they could become extinct within 100 years, further affecting the food chain and causing a "catastrophic collapse" of natural ecosystems
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Will China's total grain output decline in 2016? The Chinese Academy of Sciences makes a forecast
The Chinese Academy of Sciences Forecasting Center released its 2016 China economic forecast in Beijing. The Chinese Academy of Sciences estimates that the national grain sown area in 2016 will be about 112.1 million hectares, a decrease of 1.2 million hectares, or about 18 million mu, compared with 2015. If severe natural disasters do not occur, under average or slightly below-average weather conditions,
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Rising Domestic Demand for Soybean Meal in China May Cause Exports to Decline in the Second Half
Traders and analysts say that China's soybean meal exports in the first half of this year tripled compared with the same period a year earlier, but as domestic soybean crushing margins improve and domestic soybean meal demand rises, China's soybean meal export supply may decrease. Analysts say that reduced Chinese soybean meal exports
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Domestic cotton prices face further downward pressure, with production down 14.2%
According to a survey by the China Cotton Association, this year's cotton production is expected to be around 6 million tons, a decrease of 1 million tons, or 14.2%. Facing changes in cotton production and the market situation, as the new cotton harvest approaches, the Agricultural Development Bank of China continues to play its role as the main channel for supplying cotton procurement funds.
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In 2014, both national cotton area and output declined; the Ministry of Agriculture released the data
Report from this website: It is learned that this year's national cotton planting area is expected to drop 8.7% from last year, and because some cotton regions suffered drought, high temperatures and other meteorological disasters earlier, the full-year cotton output is expected to be somewhat lower than last year. The reduction in the national cotton area is mainly due to the relatively large decline in the inland cotton area.
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Nationwide cotton planting area and output both decline this year
This newspaper report, reporter Qiao Jinliang from the Ministry of Agriculture: This year's nationwide cotton planting area is expected to fall 8.7% from last year, and because some cotton regions suffered meteorological disasters such as drought and high temperatures earlier, full-year cotton output is expected to be lower than last year. Nationwide cotton area decline
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Ministry of Agriculture Releases Weekly Cotton Market Report: Cotton Prices Fall Both at Home and Abroad
The China National Cotton Storage Information Center of the Ministry of Agriculture released yesterday the weekly report on China's cotton market for the third week of September (September 15-19). According to the weekly report: domestic cotton prices continued to fall, foreign cotton prices fell, and domestic cotton yarn prices continued to decline. 1. Domestic cotton prices continued to fall. This week, Xinjiang
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Increasing grain imports to ensure food security, real grain prices tend to decline
The issue of food security is an old topic. People of insight have long known that the Chinese can fully feed themselves. As early as 1994, when Lester Brown came to China with alarming claims, many domestic scholars pointed out that there were loopholes in Brown's calculations, the most serious being
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