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Why has chemical fertilizer off-season storage decreased for the first time?
Since China established the commercial off-season storage system for chemical fertilizer in 2004, the volume of off-season chemical fertilizer storage had only increased and never decreased, rising from 800 million tons at the beginning to 1800 million tons in 2013, with an average annual growth of 125%. However, this year the volume of off-season chemical fertilizer storage fell for the first time. In this round, storage enterprises with an off-season chemical fertilizer storage volume of 50000 tons or less made no change, those with 100000 to 200000 tons reduced their contracted storage volume by 20%, and those with more than 200000 tons reduced their contracted storage volume by 25%.
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Rural Work Conference Identifies Five Key Measures, Proposes for the First Time a "New Rural Area for People"
Central Rural Work Conference: Agricultural Modernization Remains the Weak Link Among the Four Modernizations; Conference Proposes Allowing Grassroots Units and the Public to Explore New Forms of Appropriate-Scale Operation. Xinhua News Agency, Beijing - The Central Rural Work Conference was held in Beijing from the 22nd to the 23rd. The conference reviewed rural and agricultural work in 2014 and studie
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In 2014, grain purchases by grain enterprises exceeded 700 billion jin for the first time
Ren Zhengxiao, director of the National Food Administration, revealed on the 8th that in the whole of 2014, grain purchases by all types of grain enterprises exceeded 700 billion jin for the first time, with the total reaching 729.8 billion jin, an increase of 40.9 billion jin year on year. Ren Zhengxiao made the above remarks at the national grain circulation work conference held there.
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Central Document No. 1 focuses on the four modernizations of agriculture, farm reclamation reform included for the first time
The 2015 Central Document No. 1 locks onto the issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers for the 12th consecutive year, with the theme "Several Opinions on Increasing the Intensity of Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization." This year's No. 1 document refines in specific detail, on the basis of last year's, the measures for advancing agricultural modernization.
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Rice purchase price left unchanged for the first time, production costs expected to fall
China's rice purchase price has been left unchanged for the first time since 2008. According to analysis, with agricultural product prices currently declining across the board, the comparative returns of grain will not deteriorate significantly, and production costs such as fertilizer and land are expected to fall, all of which
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Ministry of Agriculture Releases First Agricultural Outlook Report, Focusing on Food Security in the Next 10 Years
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture released an agricultural outlook report for the first time, predicting that over the next 10 years, higher yields per unit area will become the main factor in agricultural production growth, and the agricultural industry chain will be further expanded and extended; market supply and demand for major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, sugar, meat, eggs and milk will continue to remain balanced.
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Soybean target price policy trial-tested for the first time, mechanism still needs improvement
Soybeans are closely tied to people's daily lives and offer considerable economic benefits. Since joining the WTO, China, once a major soybean producer, has become a fertile market for foreign soybeans, especially American ones, and some foreign companies have gained de facto pricing power over soybean purchases. And
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Forest tourism exceeds 20% of domestic tourism revenue for the first time
The reporter learned from the press conference for the 2015 China Forest Tourism Festival held by the State Forestry Administration on August 26 that in 2014, the comprehensive social output value created by forest tourism nationwide reached 650 billion yuan, exceeding 20% of domestic tourism revenue for the first time, and forest tourism has become an important green
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Grassland Ecological Compensation and Award Policy Introduces Third-Party Assessment Mechanism for the First Time
This year marks the final year of the first implementation cycle of the grassland compensation and award policy. Does the design of this policy actually fit the realities of grassland pastoral areas? How well has it been implemented? What results have been achieved, and what problems remain? Recently, the grassland compensation and award policy assessment symposium
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Market conditions force first cut in corn temporary storage price in 7 years
The temporary corn purchase and storage policy, once rumored to be ending this year, has taken the stage again. Last Friday evening, the long-awaited 2015 temporary corn storage policy was finally announced. Liu Dong, a corn analyst at Zhuochuang Information, told the Daily Economic News that this year's temporary storage policy
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