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The future of agricultural input e-commerce will promote the return of fertilizer products to their roots
Agricultural input e-commerce may reshuffle the development of the fertilizer industry, but the development of agricultural input e-commerce will also promote the return of fertilizer products to their roots. Currently on the fertilizer market, all kinds of "new products" and all kinds of "high technology" not only leave farmers at a loss, but even experts may not be able to explain them clearly. Has technological innovation in the agricultural input industry really entered a brand-new era?
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Marker-assisted selection will become the main direction of future breeding
Conventional breeding methods have limitations such as genetic variation and genome hybridization; in principle, these limitations can be overcome through genetic engineering methods (such as recombinant DNA). Using these methods, genes with defined functions can be cloned and introduced into different species in a rapid and highly specialized manner.
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Small grains also have a big future: why are farmers unwilling to grow them?
When people talk about miscellaneous grains, they habitually attach the word "small" to them. Compared with field crops, miscellaneous grains are mainly intercropped along ditch edges and embankments and on dry slopes in mountainous areas, with small planting areas, and they are not staple foods, so they are called "small miscellaneous grains." In the past, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, once widely grew small miscellaneous grains, especially intercropped with cotton. But now, cotton fields in Gaoqing County have shrunk sharply, and the area of miscellaneous grains has plummeted accordingly. The once-flourishing scene of every household growing cotton and every household enjoying the fragrance of miscellaneous grains is hard to see again.
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Agriculture is aging rapidly - who will feed us in the future?
Not long ago, at the Southern Seed Industry Exchange Conference, the participants were basically agricultural people over fifty years old. In front of the booth of the China Seed Industry Online Exchange Exhibition, many agricultural people did not know how to scan the WeChat QR code. Nowadays, in an era of increasingly developed technology, ag
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Corn Starch Futures Listing Imminent: Dalian Commodity Exchange Conducts Full-Market Simulation Test
On November 29, the Dalian Commodity Exchange (hereinafter referred to as DCE) conducted the first full-market trading test of the corn starch futures contract. The test process went smoothly and all functional points displayed normally, comprehensively verifying the safety and effectiveness of the trading system. This test covered
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Future seed industry sales are expected to rise to over 90 billion yuan
In the process of global economic integration, numerous sustained growth opportunities and an open environment have enabled China to develop into one of the largest seed markets in the world. China's seed industry has developed into one of the most market-oriented industries in the agricultural sector, and a diversified structure of seed industry entities has basically taken shape
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One Year After Listing, Egg Futures Market Functions Gradually Emerge
At the recently held Second (2014) China Egg Industry Chain Supply and Demand Situation and Egg Futures First Anniversary Analysis Meeting, a relevant person in charge of the Agricultural Products Department of the Dalian Commodity Exchange said that since its listing on November 8, 2013, egg futures have shown a good development trend,
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In the future, wasting food in our country may be suspected of being illegal
According to the website of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council, the National Development and Reform Commission recently revised and improved the "Food Law (Draft for Review)" that was released for public comment in February 2012, and is now publicly soliciting opinions on the revised "Food Law (Draft for Review)"
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Corn starch futures will drive the upgrading and development of China's corn industry chain
After a long wait, corn starch has finally been approved for listing, which means the futures market will provide new guaranteed support for the extension and development of the corn processing industry. On the 21st, a spokesperson for the China Securities Regulatory Commission stated that the CSRC has approved the Dalian Commodity Exchange
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Full mechanization of cotton could save 70% of labor costs in the future
In recent years, the Cotton Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, together with the Nanjing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, has intensified research and development of full mechanization in the cotton regions of the Yellow River Basin and the Yangtze River Basin, achieving the integration of agronomy and agricultural machinery. The whole process has basically achieved mechanization, which can save about 70% of the labor cost of cotton planting
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