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China's soybean industry suffers an irreparable disaster
It is not an easy thing for China to feed itself: because China has 21% of the world's population but only 9% of the world's arable land. China's most fertile land depends on irrigation and is therefore vulnerable to water pollution, floods or drought. China's water resources are quite scarce
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Hard to get a loan and expensive to borrow? Rural financial self-governance solves the problem
Insufficient supply of basic rural financial services, how to solve the problem of hard and expensive loans? Zhejiang explores "rural financial self-governance" Loans are more convenient, credit limits have increased, and farming households are more creditworthy. Taotou Village, located on Huaguman Island in Sanmen County, Taizhou City, is surrounded by the sea on three sides. As early winter approaches
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New-season rapeseed planting area shrinks, oilseed meal price trend hard to judge
A Where have the green and lush rapeseed fields gone? In the early winter season of past years, traveling across the land of Jingchu, green and lush rapeseed fields stretched as far as the eye could see, and the manually transplanted rapeseed stood as neatly as soldiers lined up in formation, a most pleasing sight. But now, even after driving over a thousand kilometers,
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Domestic grain prices are 50% more expensive than foreign prices and are unlikely to fall, while the grain self-sufficiency rate declines year by year
50% more expensive than foreign prices, domestic grain prices are unlikely to bow. Domestic prices of rice, wheat, corn and soybeans are 17.26%, 32.8%, 88.24% and 60.16% higher than international prices respectively. Author: Huang Lichang. Recently, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture jointly issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Delineation of Permanent Basic Farmland"
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What to do when agricultural products are hard to sell? The fundamental way out lies in the market
Along with the continuous development of the market economy and the growing sophistication of information dissemination, news of various agricultural products being hard to sell in all regions has frequently appeared in the media, and even the suburbs of the capital are not immune. This year's autumn harvest season saw grapes, apples, jujubes and other fruits in the suburbs of Beijing experiencing difficulties in selling to varying degrees,
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Edible oil demand is hard to meet, domestic planting area falls short
In recent years, China has imported large quantities of genetically modified soybeans. Is their safety guaranteed? Kou Jianping, Director of the Division of GMO Safety Management and Intellectual Property of the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Ministry of Agriculture, pointed out today at the "National Media Journalists GMO Reporting Training Class" that domestic soybeans face difficulties.
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Record Soybean Harvest Fails to Reverse Declining Legume Prices
An extra harvest of three to five dou was originally a sight that delighted farmers, but in a year of abundant production it became the straw that bent agricultural prices downward. In the golden autumn season, a spell of rainy weather during the soybean harvest on the other side of the ocean brought a small rebound in domestic and international soybean futures and soybean oil futures.
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Why is it hard for stockpiling to improve the competitiveness of agricultural products? Dang Guoying explains
Setting intervention prices for agricultural products according to farmer income targets may weaken the pressure of market competition and bring marginal land with backward productivity into cultivation. According to media reports, a reporter learned from authoritative sources that the research for the 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture is considering abolishing the temporary stockpiling policy,
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Why is it hard to keep college graduates in agriculture despite free tuition?
To attract and cultivate agricultural talent, since 2006 Zhejiang has funded a free-tuition policy each year for students from the province enrolled in university agriculture-related majors in crop cultivation and livestock breeding. But a recent survey by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture showed that between 2011 and 2013, among those benefiting from the policy,
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New corn is not far from hitting the market, wheat hard to make a splash as feed
The listing of new-season corn is just around the corner, and corn prices are beginning to show signs of downward pressure, the proportion of wheat used as feed substitute will further decrease in the future, and energy feed is likely to return to the "corn-dominant" era. Domestic corn prices remain firm, with supply tight in most regions
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