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Prices of popular Chinese medicinal herbs such as angelica and gastrodia drop sharply
Due to blindly expanded cultivation, output of many previously hot-selling varieties such as angelica and gastrodia is severely oversupplied. Not only have lofty items like bird's nest and cordyceps been consigned to the cold palace by the market, but "everyone's darling" Chinese medicinal herbs have also begun to fall in price and attract few buyers. The reporter learned that, including Salvia miltiorrhiza,
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How can agricultural wholesale markets embrace e-commerce?
Currently, more than 80% of China's agricultural products each year circulate through a network of about 4,200 agricultural product wholesale markets across the country. Agricultural wholesale markets are both indispensable infrastructure in the agricultural product circulation chain and vested interests. However, fresh produce e-commerce
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Straw burning control must rely on market mechanisms
Every summer harvest, all localities must face the major test of straw burning. This year, although all localities have imposed strict bans on burning, some places still have thick smoke billowing, with PM2.5 indices off the charts. Meteorological satellite monitoring shows that in June this year, straw burning in the country's main summer grain harvest areas
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Only when pro-farmer policies are publicized to every household can farmers truly benefit
Nowadays, farmers are already very familiar with the grain subsidy policy, but when it comes to pro-farmer policies for vegetables, aquaculture, livestock and poultry, forestry and fruit, and agricultural product processing, they either have only a partial understanding or have never even heard of them. This is because these subsidy policies require a certain scale of production and investment in production facilities
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Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen: Resolutely protect and build every piece of grassland well
This website news August 26-27, the 2015 China Grassland Forum was held in Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen attended and delivered a speech. He emphasized that at the key juncture of summarizing the Twelfth Five-Year Plan and planning the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan, the vast number of grassland workers must unite their efforts, be brave in innovation, and
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State encourages farmers to use scientific grain storage bins, reducing grain storage losses every year
Recently, experts from the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the State Administration of Grain explained knowledge about grain production and grain saving and loss reduction to Lu Tingzhan (center), a large-scale grower at the Tingyuan Family Farm in Fugou County, Henan Province. During the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week
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Banning straw burning cannot succeed without supporting policies
Editor's note: Every harvest season, air pollution caused by burning straw always becomes a focus of attention. How can we comprehensively utilize this valuable biomass resource and avoid simply burning it all and creating a source of smog? Reporters from Economic Daily visited experts and scholars and went
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China's soil erosion area accounts for 30% of its landmass, with one million mu of farmland lost every year
First national-level soil and water conservation plan approved. Recently, the State Council issued the "Reply on the National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reply"), in principle agreeing to the "National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan
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Grain farmers, rest assured: growing grain will never leave you worse off
We must do everything possible to transform the mode of agricultural development, raise the overall grain production capacity, and protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices. Agricultural monitoring shows that domestic grain prices have been basically stable,
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Why the Reform of the Rural Collective Property Rights System Is Not Simply Dividing Everything Up
The reform of the rural collective property rights system means advancing classified reform according to the different types of resource assets, operating assets and public-welfare assets. However, this reform is by no means simply dividing everything up, by no means privatization, and still less is it about letting farmers eat the
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