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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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What transformational challenges does rural governance face?
In the process of urbanization, the previous situation in which urban and rural areas were mutually isolated and each governed itself in a closed manner has been broken, and rural governance faces new challenges from urbanization development. Our rural governance faces four basic transformations: First, the transformation from a closed society to an open society. Second
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What does smart agriculture look like? See how Internet Plus agriculture gets down to earth
What smart agriculture looks like: how to plant and how to raise, all handled with one button. Farming with mobile phone navigation is truly amazing! On April 14, farmer Deng Fade of Qingshubao Village, Changyang Tujia Autonomous County, Hubei Province, stood in his own vegetable plot and showed reporters with his mobile phone that this plot belongs to which grade
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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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How Does Agricultural Information Reach Villages and Households? A Full Look at How Services Are Delivered on the Ground
Speaking of this village's "Yinong Information Service Station," Zhu Jinhong always has endless thanks to express, because every year he worried about how to sell the chickens his family raised. Last year, after posting information online through the station, within a few days, buyers from Shanghai and other places called one after another to place orders, and one Hangzhou
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To safeguard food security, what does it take to fortify the world's granary?
As the world's granary, Sinograin, on the grand scale, bears on national food security; on the small scale, it bears on the people's daily food supply. Operating safely and effectively is its first priority. As the primary implementer of grain reserves, Sinograin has an enormous reserve scale, like a small horse pulling a big cart,
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What exactly does the new type of agricultural operation system mean?
The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "build a new type of agricultural operation system that combines intensification, specialization, organization and socialization." Subsequently, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the No. 1 Central Documents of 2013, 2014 and 2015, among other central documents, all emphasized the need to accelerate
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How much farther does rural informatization have to go?
The arrival of the mobile internet era lets city dwellers enjoy every convenience without leaving home. In rural areas with poor transportation, how can agricultural products be sold online? How can daily necessities be delivered to the doorstep? How can the urban-rural digital divide be narrowed? Information benefits farmers
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Why does reducing fertilizer use and increasing efficiency in agriculture not affect food security?
Chemical fertilizers have made an indelible contribution to China's consecutive years of agricultural harvests, but as chemical fertilizer use in China has increased, its efficiency in boosting crop yields has been declining, and it has even brought impacts on the ecological environment. In fact, reducing fertilizer use, especially for cash crops such as vegetables and fruits,
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Food security does not rely on Sinograin, so what does it rely on for protection?
With grain in hand, the heart is at ease. This is the core idea of our country's grain policy. It sounds fine, but unfortunately the real world has costs. The first problem is that grain prices are pushed up, and our country has become a high-price zone in the international grain market. From wheat and corn to rice, although
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