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Declining Net Returns from Grain Farming: Who Will Grow the Grain Concerns National Food Security
For a long time, "who will grow the grain" has been an extremely important topic, since it concerns national food security. But it also seems not to be a problem, because as long as grain farming is worthwhile, someone will naturally grow it. So "who will grow the grain" ultimately comes down to how to ensure that grain farming is profitable, yet the grim reality is truly worrying.
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Selling Grain Is Hard, Stacked on Top of Debt-Financed Farming: China's Grain Subsidies Are Less Than One-Tenth of Europe's and America's
Economic Observer reporter Jiang Yunzhang: Wheat is falling, corn is falling too. This year's grain prices are truly baffling! A bumper grain harvest is normally a happy occasion, but Liang Yukui (pseudonym), a large-scale grain farmer in the Yunan area of Henan Province, cannot bring himself to feel glad at all. In previous years, in response to
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Wheat, Corn and Other Grain Prices Are Falling: How Can the Plight of Grain Farming Be Solved?
The Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences recently held a training session on the "two-deep, one-shallow" simplified cultivation technique for wheat in Matou Town, Dongming County. Photo by Cao Fengqin. Falling grain prices have once again dampened farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. They have also had a negative impact on land transfers and large-scale operations, with signs even emerging of contractors withdrawing from leased land.
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Grain Price Inversion Leads to Surge in Grain Imports: Farmers Cannot Sell the Grain They Grow
Grain Won't Sell, Grain Farmers Want to Cry but Have No Tears: Does China Have Too Much Grain? Author: Gao Yuanzhi, Zhou Mian, Wu Tao Source: Banyuetan Website Editor: Yuan Bixia Editor's Note: At present, China's grain production and grain market have some puzzling aspects: on the one hand, grain
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Ministry of Agriculture Actively and Steadily Advances the Grain-to-Forage Pilot to Develop Grass-Fed Livestock Farming
On September 1, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, calling for actively and steadily advancing the pilot work of converting grain crops to forage to develop grass-fed livestock farming, vigorously promoting the integration of farming and livestock raising, and enhancing the comprehensive benefits of crop cultivation and livestock breeding. To further advance agricultural structural adjustment, this year's Central Document No. 1
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After a Grain Harvest Disaster, Who Will Ease the Farmers' Worries?
When people are diligent, heaven helps, and joy overflows through the skylight; when people are diligent but meet natural disaster, there is nowhere to pour out their grief. From ancient times to the present, "relying on heaven for the harvest" seems to be an insurmountable obstacle for grain farmers. Even in today's highly developed science and technology, people still cannot escape the harassment of natural disasters. In our country
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Labor shortage makes hiring difficult in grain farming, how can efficiency be improved?
Recently, at the wheat field of Zhang Junbao, a major grain grower in the 11th Company of the 49th Regiment of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, this writer saw that with the roar of the combine harvester, the tasks of feeding the heads, threshing and loading were completed in one go, while the baler quickly pressed the wheat stalks into neat rectangular stacks. Zhang Junbao said:
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Both grow more grain and earn more money, increasing income through farming without neglecting either
The modern agricultural machinery cooperative in Anquan Village, Changsheng Township, Kedong County, Heilongjiang, has more than 32,000 mu of arable land. "In 2012, the grain-growing profit rate reached 30%, and in 2014 it fell to 19%." said He Yongdong, head of the cooperative. "Rising land rent is one of the important factors pushing up the cost of growing grain.
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Central government gives strong support to appropriately scaled grain farming
Recently, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture allocated 143.4 billion yuan in three items of funding: comprehensive agricultural input subsidies, direct subsidies to grain farmers, and crop improved seed subsidies. At the same time, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture, on the basis of extensively soliciting and listening to opinions from all sides, and after reporting to and receiving approval from the State Council, will launch
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Large-scale grain farming lost over 2 million yuan in 3 years, why did it ultimately go bankrupt?
Liang Ziran, a farmer from Yongchuan, Chongqing, was known as the "Grain King of Ten Thousand Mu." As early as 2009, he contracted over 10,000 mu of farmland for large-scale cultivation. Liang Ziran's contract price was 810 yuan per mu, but the actual payment already exceeded 900 yuan. Over several years, Liang Ziran not
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