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How does super hybrid rice safeguard national food security?
China currently has a population of more than 1.3 billion, and it will soon reach 1.4 billion. At the same time, China's cultivated land is decreasing year by year. Faced with this severe situation of a growing population and shrinking land, the only way to solve the problem of feeding the entire nation is to greatly increase the yield per unit area of food crops through scientific and technological progress.
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Capital flowing to the countryside generally does not grow grain: three major difficulties behind it
Regarding the phenomenon noted by China Youth Daily reporters during interviews in Xingtai, Handan and other places, that capital going to the countryside has the strength to compete for land but not the ability to farm it, He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and doctoral supervisor, said this situation is not uncommon nationwide.
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Why does ordering a chicken require waiting nearly a year?
Last year on "Double 11," as the news of "selling over ten million Qingyuan chickens in a single day" made headlines across major websites, the development of rural e-commerce in the eastern, western, and northern regions of Guangdong also became a hot topic. Taobao came, JD.com came... and the accompanying "astronomical" orders are gradually activating
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How does farmland protection shore up the foundation of national food security
Farmland is a non-renewable resource and extremely precious. At the same time, land is also the foundation for all kinds of human activities. In particular, China is currently advancing urbanization rapidly, which inevitably requires converting agricultural land into construction land. Each year, newly added urban construction land amounts to millions of
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Urbanization does not mean leaving one's hometown behind, and farmers who move to the city need not give up their land
Urbanization does not mean making farmers "leave their hometown behind"; rather, it means enabling farmers to enjoy the same public services and living conditions as urban residents. In recent years, Dezhou City has explored the "joint development of two zones" - new rural communities and rural industrial parks - achieving for rural community residents "leaving the land but not the village, finding employment without leaving home, entering factories without entering the city, and becoming urbanized in place," blazing a new path of "people-centered, nearby urbanization," effectively solving the land bottleneck problem encountered in the process of urban development, and to a certain extent achieving a win-win of improved farmers' living conditions and long-term rural economic development.
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How Aquatic Products Get Their Own ID Cards
In 2014, among the ten most closely watched focal issues in society, food safety still ranked first. This is already the third consecutive year that food safety has topped the "ten most closely watched focal issues." In recent years, the state, local governments and relevant regulatory authorities have attached great importance to
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How does land transfer benefit everyone?
A few days ago, Yang Jun, a farmer from Jianli, Hubei, who works as a dim sum chef in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, invited his parents to Hangzhou to help out at his bun shop. My wife and I have worked in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for 10 years, and the bun shop business is quite good. We have long wanted my parents to come and help, but they just could not bear to part with
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Huimin policies must not be distorted or watered down: how does the Ministry of Agriculture implement its services for farmers?
On the evening of January 15, in the Ministry of Agriculture office building on the east side of Changhong Bridge on the East Third Ring Road in Beijing, lights were still on in quite a few offices, and many staff members were still busily working at computers and beside printers. With only about ten days left before the launch of the science and technology service cloud platform, everyone was busy
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China's agriculture, rural areas and farmers policy: how does the world view it?
The Central Rural Work Conference closed in Beijing a few days ago. The conference made important arrangements centering on promoting modern agriculture, advancing agricultural industrialization and rural reform, sparking heated discussion among experts from many countries. Many overseas experts believe that the latest China "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" policy, based on the country's
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The pace of rural land transfer is accelerating: what does it mean for farmers?
Wei Dedong (right), founder of the Fumin Family Farm in Shandong, uses the newly installed agricultural irrigation line for a trial watering (photographed on March 10, 2013). By the end of June 2014, the area of contracted household farmland transferred nationwide reached 380 million mu, accounting for 28.
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