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New breakthrough in defending high-level grain production; transforming the mode and adjusting the structure become this year's main theme
Written on the occasion of the 2015 grain output hitting a new record. It was late rice harvest season in Xiaokeng Valley, Huangjia Village, Qidu Township, Yongfeng County, Jiangxi Province, where two harvesters shuttled back and forth, golden waves of rice falling and being drawn in, and plump grains filling the granary. One can imagine that this would again
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Sichuan Vegetable Price Report for This Week
The weighted average wholesale price of 28 kinds of vegetables at 9 large and medium-sized vegetable wholesale markets across the province under key monitoring by the Department of Agriculture in the 51st week of 2015 (December 14, 2015 - December 20, 2015, the same below) was 3.70 yuan/kg, an increase of 0.03 yuan from 3.67 yuan last week, up 0.8% week-on-week. By variety,
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Forecast and Analysis of China's Apple Production and Price Trends This Year
The bumper apple harvest in 2015 and the earlier market price decline are the two main reasons behind the return of apple prices to normal levels. The increase in market inventory and the rise in demand caused by lower prices will become the two decisive factors shaping this year's market direction. Uncertainty in the future market is increasing, and
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A healthy grain market cannot function without policy reform
This year's domestic grain harvest was bumper, but farmers are hardly pleased, because the sharp drop in grain prices could cause their incomes to fall steeply. Since early autumn, prices of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas have all declined to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices has been pronounced, with farm-gate prices
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How Does Rural Industrial Integration Move Forward? New Types of Business Entities Do It This Way
New Types of Business Entities Can Drive Integration Like This Promoting the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas requires mobilizing the enthusiasm of the vast number of traditional small farmers, and the role of new types of agricultural business entities should not be underestimated. Through new types of agricultural business entities driving the integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas, it is possible to achieve cross-sectoral and intensive allocation of capital, technology and resource factors, enabling agricultural production, agricultural product processing and sales, catering, leisure and other rural service industries to develop in a coordinated manner, ultimately achieving extension of the rural agricultural industrial chain, expansion of the industrial scope and increased farmers' income.
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Corn Becomes the Focus of Structural Adjustment: A Third of the Nation's Corn Acreage May Be Converted from Grain to Forage
In Shandong, a major grain-planting province, more than 80% of grain corn is used as livestock feed, while the nation's feed grain still depends on imports of 100 million tonnes per year. Under the food security strategy, grain used for livestock feed has been brought into policy consideration. In a recent public
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What are the standards for ecological agriculture? Jiang Gaoming explains it this way
Due to work reasons, the author is often asked what kind of agriculture can be called ecological agriculture? What is the difference between ecological agriculture, traditional agriculture, and organic agriculture? Is ecological agriculture a return to primitive agriculture? Because of a lack of understanding of the connotation of ecological agriculture, plus some people deliberately
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Northeast corn holds steady, imports rise markedly
This month, Northeast corn was basically stable. According to market information, by the end of the month the ex-warehouse price of standard-grade corn was mostly 2150-2200 yuan/tonne in Heilongjiang, mostly 2250-2280 yuan/tonne in Jilin, and 2280-2300 yuan/tonne in Liaoning. Analysis shows that in July, corn in the Northeast region
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Farmers' grain payments are in arrears: who should be held responsible?
On one side are the grain-selling farmers who have not received their money; on the other side is Sinograin, which has already paid the grain payments. Recently, the incident of farmers' grain-selling payments being in arrears in Dingyuan County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, has drawn attention from all sides. Where exactly did the more than 20 million yuan in grain-selling payments go? And how should the grain payments owed to farmers
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Steady progress made in transforming the agricultural development model and adjusting the structure, solid steps taken
This website news: Trials such as converting grain fields to fodder and grain-soybean rotation were launched early and quickly; the adjustment of the cropping structure, the transformation and upgrading of the herbivorous livestock industry, the integration of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and the mechanization and informatization of agriculture advanced steadily; the cultivation of practical rural talent and new-type farmers gradually deepened. As summer grain production achieved
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