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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is Growing Grain Actually Profitable? Funding Woes Plague Grain Cooperatives
With grain in hand, the heart is at ease. As a new type of agricultural business entity, grain cooperatives have gradually become the dominant force in grain production. How are grain-growing cooperatives developing today? On December 5, a reporter traveled to Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province to find out. Funding Woes
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Will robots replacing farmers be the future of agriculture?
The next time you stand in line at the supermarket checkout, spare a thought for the farmers who fill your basket. These days they are having a hard time, and you will certainly end up paying more for your food; for the millions of hungry people around the world who go without three meals, this is all the more a matter of life and death.
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2014 Seed Industry New Policies Take Root, Industry Development Holds Promise for the Future
The year 2014, now drawing to a close, has been called the inaugural year of comprehensively deepening reform. Focusing on the agricultural sector, the reform of the crop seed industry reflects the meaning of "comprehensive deepening" with particular clarity. Judging from the development trends of 2014, the seed industry has already begun to enter a new stage
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