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If growing grain doesn't pay, how can the nation's rice bowl be held steady?
As a journalist covering agriculture, one of the perks is being able to escape the city's noise and often go out to the fields, to see the vast farmland, the livestock farms nestled among green mountains and clear waters, and the magnificent water conservancy projects. Over the past year or so, I have been to a new-type urbanization pilot county town
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Fertilizer and pesticide use is expected to achieve zero growth in 5 years
At the Ministry of Agriculture press conference held on the 6th, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that by 2020, China's agriculture should achieve "one control, two reductions, three basics," namely controlling the total amount of agricultural water use; reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, with fertilizer and pesticide use achieving zero growth; basically achieving the resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, with all dead livestock and poultry achieving harmless treatment;
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Land transfer must be advanced in an orderly way according to local conditions
The Central Rural Work Conference held at the end of 2014 pointed out that in advancing agricultural modernization, it is necessary to persist in taking safeguarding national food security as the primary task and ensure that grain is basically self-sufficient and that staple food is absolutely safe. However, at present a large number of young and middle-aged laborers in China's rural areas have flowed out, and in many rural areas no one is willing to farm the land and no one knows how to farm it. The dilemma of rural "hollowing out" has become increasingly prominent, and food security has been affected.
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The fertilizer market has also entered a new normal of development
The recently held Central Economic Work Conference demonstrated that China's economy has entered a new normal from nine aspects including consumer demand, investment demand, exports, production capacity, production factors, market competition, and resources and environment. In the future, medium-to-high-speed growth, transformation of the development model,
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The 2nd China Selenium Expo will be held in Enshi Prefecture, Hubei
The reporter learned from Enshi Prefecture, Hubei that the 2nd China Selenium Products Expo and Trade Fair, also known as the China Enshi - World Selenium Capital Selenium Products Expo and Trade Fair, will be held in Enshi Prefecture from January 18 to 22. Enshi is the national selenium capital. According to Dong Yong
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A Detailed Explanation of the 7 Major Challenges Facing the Development of Animal Husbandry
At the recently held Third Session of the Sixth Council of the China Animal Agriculture Association, Wang Zongli, Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry of the Ministry of Agriculture, delivered a report on the review and outlook of China's animal husbandry development in 2014. Wang Zongli pointed out that China's animal husbandry is currently at a critical stage of transformation and upgrading.
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Chinese agriculture faces dual squeezes and dual constraints
The Central Economic Work Conference and the Central Rural Work Conference held not long ago made some new arrangements for deepening rural reform and accelerating the modernization of agriculture, and in particular put forward some new requirements for accelerating the transformation of the agricultural development model. Today I am very pleased to be able to
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Dual Transfer Strategy Helps Promote In-situ Urbanization
At the recently held 4th China New Urbanization Summit, Gu Shengzu, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, vice chairman of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee, and vice chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, pointed out that in the past, the cost of the large-scale "migratory bird-style migration" of migrant workers was 60 million left-behind children and tens of millions of left-behind
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The 7th National Vegetable Large-Scale Efficient Seedling Technology Experience Exchange Conference Held
Report from this website: On November 19, the 7th National Vegetable Large-Scale Efficient Seedling Technology Experience Exchange Conference and the Founding Conference of the Seedling Branch of the China Vegetable Association were held in Shouguang, Shandong. China is the world's largest vegetable producer and consumer, and vegetable production is an important source of farmers' income
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Food Security: The Chinese People's Rice Bowl Must Be Held Firmly in Our Own Hands
The state takes the people as its foundation, the people take food as their heaven, and food takes grain as its source. Agriculture is the foundation of the national economy, and grain is the foundation of agriculture, making it truly the root of all ages. In contemporary times, the issue of food security concerns the national economy and people's livelihood, concerns social development, and concerns political stability. All countries around the world
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