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Why is the rate of grain price increases unable to keep up with the cost of living?
Summary: Why is the rate of grain price increases unable to keep up with the cost of living? Science Farming has previously made a rough comparison of prices over the past decade, and found a problem: the rate of grain price increases is roughly around 1.5 times, while other pri...
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Grain output has increased year after year, so is there still any point in importing grain? The answer is surprising
Although China's grain output saw a slight decline in 2016, it still remained stable above 6 trillion tons; apart from that year, it can be said to have been in a state of near-continuous growth. And for the country, famine also seems to be getting farther and farther away from us...
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Is growing grain actually worth it? High grain yields do not equal higher farmer incomes
China's number one wheat county welcomes a twelfth consecutive summer grain increase, yet a major grain county is not equal to a strong agricultural county, and high grain yields are not equal to higher farmer incomes. Even when grain is grown to the utmost, farmers' incomes are still not high, and Hua County is not content to accept this. Sharply raising grain prices is unrealistic; to both stabilize grain and increase income, Hua County is exploring a path to comprehensively upgrade agricultural industrialization.
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Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests: increasing yields through fertilizer worsens arable land quality
Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests. The National Bureau of Statistics website announced on July 12 that in 2013, the national total summer grain output reached 131.89 million tons, an increase of 1.96 million tons over 2012, up 1.5%; of which winter wheat output was 115.67 million tons, an increase of 1.48 million tons over the previous year, up 1.3%. 201
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Will regional droughts affect the goal of stabilizing grain output and increasing incomes? Experts respond
On August 3, in Anzhuang Village, Wangdu County, Hebei Province, a farmer irrigates corn crops in a field. Recently, reporters learned that the drought-affected area of crops in the field in Hebei Province reached 15.6 million mu. Economic Daily, Beijing, August 4 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang) According to the agricultural situation dispatch of the Ministry of Agriculture on August 4,
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Increased grain imports have little to do with the current drought
At present, some of China's major grain-producing areas are suffering from severe drought, which has affected the growth of autumn grain in some localities. Data recently released by the General Administration of Customs show that in the first seven months of this year, China imported a cumulative 11.34 million tons of cereals and cereal flour, an increase of 80.7% over the same period last year. Some people have raised the question,
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Policy support for grain drying should be increased
Machine drying costs more than half less than manual sun-drying of grain. It is currently the summer grain harvest and storage season, and farmers in many places are suffering from rainy weather as they dry their grain. But Deng Shengwen, a large-scale grain grower in Jingkou Township, Nanchang County, Jiangxi Province, is not worried at all, because he bought a grain dryer. Taking
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Global bumper harvest crushes grain prices: China's 11 consecutive years of increases meet a historic US harvest
The crop harvest season is approaching, and China is expected to see an 11th consecutive year of grain harvests. But according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal, the government's long-standing purchasing policy has severely distorted grain prices, with corn prices even reaching 3 times the international price, and the bumper harvest is instead creating more problems
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China's 11th consecutive year of grain increase combined with a bumper harvest in the US puts global grain prices under pressure
The harvest season is about to arrive, and China is expected to see an 11th consecutive year of bumper grain harvests. But according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal, years of official purchasing policy have severely distorted grain prices, with corn prices even reaching 3 times the international price, and a bumper harvest actually creates more problems.
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Normalized grain production growth: innovating agricultural development methods is key
In recent years, Yongqiao District of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, as an important national grain production base, has strengthened its sense of overall interests, consciously shouldered the responsibility of safeguarding national food security, and, driven by the construction of the National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone and the National Comprehensive Rural Reform Pilot Zone, innovated modern agriculture
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