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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 the grain industry can achieve transformation and upgrading through the internet
The internet lets farmers plant grain with peace of mind. Only by doing a good job in grain purchase and storage and ensuring that every grain farmers grow is brought into storage can farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain be mobilized and farmers' incomes be increased. Only then can farmers plant grain with peace of mind. Using modern information technology to automatically collect data,
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Over 80% of China's agricultural wholesale markets lack supply and demand information
Opaque supply and demand relationships and incomplete information on agricultural product circulation directly affect farmers' incomes. Zhang Yuxi, a member of the China Economic and Social Council and chairman of Beijing Xinfadi Group, said recently at the 2015 China Economic and Social Forum held in Tianjin that China's agricultural product wholesale
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How effective is the agricultural water price reform? An in-depth interpretation of its implementation results
The current agricultural water price is generally set at a low standard with a low collection rate; farmers have no incentive to save water, and the water fees can hardly sustain the normal operation of irrigation and drainage projects. Carrying out agricultural water price reform is not simply about raising prices, but involves comprehensive reform in many aspects such as water rights allocation, price formation mechanisms, subsidies and incentives.
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Food target price reform should be met with the "five transformations"
On September 17, the National Development and Reform Commission, the State Administration of Grain, the Ministry of Finance, and the Agricultural Development Bank of China issued the "Notice on Issues Concerning the State Temporary Storage and Purchase of Corn in Northeast China in 2015," clarifying the corn temporary storage and purchase policy that had been widely speculated about by the outside world.
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Accelerated reform of agricultural product prices will drive the marketization of China's agriculture
Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). The "Opinions" pointed out that the price formation mechanism for agricultural products must be improved, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. China Investment Advisor agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry
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Prices of the three major staple grains fall together, agricultural product price reform may accelerate
A bumper harvest without a bumper income: this autumn, farmers may not have much to celebrate. Since the third quarter, prices of the three major domestic staple grains have fallen steadily. According to statistics, corn saw the largest drop, with the purchase price falling from the year's high of 2279 yuan/ton to 1980 yuan/ton, a decline of 13.1%; the wheat purchase price fell from the year's high of
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Why agricultural product price reform must be coordinated and balanced
The inversion phenomenon in China's grain market is prominent, agricultural product price subsidies are already close to the upper limit of the WTO's Amber Box subsidy rules, and market-supporting purchases are becoming increasingly difficult to sustain. Adjusting grain purchase prices can neither simply reduce fiscal subsidies and directly require domestic bulk agricultural product prices to align with
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A Record of the Reform, Innovation and Development of Our Nation's Seed Industry
Editor's Note: Grain is the foundation of the state, and the seed industry is the foundation of grain. China's seed industry started from nothing at the beginning of the founding of New China, and through decades of unremitting efforts, it has continued to develop and grow through shared endeavor. Especially since entering the new century, China's seed industry, under external pressure from international competition and internal challenges of transforming the growth model and adjusting the structure, has continuously reformed and innovated, pressing forward into deep-water areas, gradually breaking through the shackles of systems and mechanisms, and radiating new vitality and brilliance. An in-depth analysis of the course of seed industry reform and development not only profoundly reflects the great process of China's agricultural modernization, but also vividly embodies the hardships and efforts of China's comprehensive deepening of reform, possessing unique typical significance and distinct contemporary value.
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Agricultural Reform on the Eve of the 13th Five-Year Plan: Food Production Puts "Stability" First
Recently, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee was held in Beijing. For nearly 20 years, the fifth plenary session of each Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has focused on the next five-year plan, and this year's 13th Five-Year Plan has attracted much attention because of its special historical background. This is the first five-year plan since China's economic development entered the "new normal," and its final year is precisely the year China completes the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
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