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Excessive Grain Imports Threaten National Food Security
The Central Economic Work Conference previously proposed a national food security strategy under the new circumstances of "taking self-reliance as the mainstay, basing ourselves on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, importing appropriately, and relying on technological support," requiring that the rice bowls of the Chinese people must always be firmly held in our own hands and that our rice bowls should
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The impact of excessively low grain prices hurting farmers should not be underestimated
Grain bumper harvest, grain prices fall, farmers' income declines. According to media reports, since the beginning of autumn this year, corn and wheat prices in China's main grain-producing areas have all declined to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices is obvious, with farmers' prices falling by an average of more than 20%, and the highest drop compared
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How to answer the new exam question of China's grain "three excesses coexisting"
More output, more imports, more inventory: How to answer the new exam question of China's grain "three excesses coexisting". Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 15th show that the total national summer grain output in 2015 was 141.066 million tons (282.13 billion jin), an increase of 3.3% over 2014. At this point, China's summer grain has achieved
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Corn reserve auction suppresses excessive price rises, market wait-and-see sentiment strengthens
Last week's reserve corn auction marked the official start of this year's reserve corn auctions. Although the auction regions were concentrated in the sales areas, this has already sent a signal to the market of increased supply. Considering that about 75 million tonnes of reserve corn remained domestically last year, and that this year's reserve corn purchases are steadily approaching 80 million tonnes, the supply of reserve corn is enormous.
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Don't Let Excessive Land Transfer Fees Undermine the Enthusiasm for Growing Grain
Editor's note: As the state encourages and supports the transfer of contracted land to specialized large-scale operators, family farms, and farmer cooperatives to develop various forms of appropriately scaled operations, land transfer is in full swing across the country. However, rising transfer fees are continuously shrinking the profit margins of large grain-growing operators and other new types of business entities. While feeling the pressure, some have already been forced to give up growing grain and switch to other more profitable cash crops. How can the reasonable returns of these new types of grain-growing business entities be ensured? How can their enthusiasm for growing grain be protected? These questions are worth pondering.
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Too Much Grain in Reserve? Committee Member Rebuts: If Production Is Cut and Prices Rise, We Will Regret It Too Late
As a major agricultural country, China cannot avoid the issue of food security. Due to China's minimum purchase price policy, wheat and rice stocks are overflowing. This is a microcosm of the "eleven consecutive years of increase" in total grain output. However, the fact that some domestic grain prices are higher than those abroad has prompted
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Serious harm from excessive fertilizer use: how can we farm the land and nourish it at the same time?
At present, China consumes 59 million tons of chemical fertilizer each year, accounting for 35% of the world's total consumption, a 2-fold increase over 30 years ago, causing serious environmental problems, said Chen Wenxin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the national soil microbiology academic symposium held a few days ago. In recent years, with
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How can rural reform prevent excessive concentration of land? Expert interpretation
At present, a new round of rural reform is unfolding across the country. Farmers' land ownership rights, contract rights and management rights are achieving the "separation of three rights", new types of agricultural business entities are also emerging in diversified forms, and large-scale land management is becoming a trend. But Han Jun, deputy director of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Office
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Cotton price reform responds to excessive domestic and international price gaps, cotton enterprises wait and see on subsidy distribution
On September 22, a relevant official of the National Development and Reform Commission said at a press conference on "Cotton Target Price Reform Pilot and Market Regulation" that the NDRC will suspend the release of reserve cotton and implement target price reform. It is reported that, with the approval of the State Council, the NDRC approved last week
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The Agricultural Product Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture Takes Active Measures to Curb Excessive Grain Processing
According to this website: After the "Notice of the Ministry of Agriculture on Strengthening Grain Processing Loss Reduction" was issued, it aroused great attention from society. Most online media, including People's Daily Online, Xinhua Net, and the Central Government Website, reposted the information "Ministry of Agriculture Deploys Strengthening of Grain Processing Loss Reduction Work."
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