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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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Ginger prices higher than pork: how to deal with the price surge?
Recently, ginger prices have been climbing steadily. On August 27, reporters visited several supermarkets and farmers' markets in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, and found that the retail price of ginger had long exceeded 10 yuan per jin. In Laiwu, one of the main ginger-producing areas in Shandong, the wholesale price of ginger on August 27 reached per jin
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Higher thresholds force tea production toward standardization
Recently, the EU officially implemented new pesticide residue limit standards for tea exported to the EU. The new standards mainly involve 4 pesticide residue indicators, including isoproturon, picoxystrobin, pyrimethanil and acetamiprid. All the standards are 1 times higher than before, with the content changing from 0.1ppm to
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New grain hits the market with prices steady to slightly higher, farmers actively selling
Wang Chengqiang, Li Lei, Chu Ruizhen, Ma Kuiyu Survey date: Thursday, September 25, 2014 Survey route: Day two: Hegang to Fujin, survey areas include Baoquanling Management Bureau, Gongqing Farm, Junchuan Farm, Suibin Farm, Mingshan Farm, Puyang Farm and other farms
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The higher the level of animal welfare, the more guaranteed the safety of humans and livestock
Now when animal welfare is discussed, it is often misunderstood by many people, and the following views mainly exist: human welfare has not yet been solved well, so why bring up animal welfare? Livestock production is commodity production, which focuses on economic benefits and has nothing to do with animal welfare? Bringing up
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Domestic grain prices are 50% higher than foreign prices: this is the cost of a high degree of grain self-sufficiency
Abstract: Domestic grain prices are on average half higher than foreign prices. In domestic consumption, the share of rice and corn is high, while the share of wheat and soybeans is low. If weighted by consumption volume, the result is about the same, also around 50%. Such high domestic grain prices are one of the costs paid for a high degree of
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How can the agricultural machinery industry reach a higher level under the new normal
General Secretary Xi pointed out that China's economic operation has entered the new normal. What does the new normal mean? I think its meaning should be threefold: First, the new normal. China's economic development has reached a gear-shifting period. Over the past few decades, China's economy developed at high speed, with a growth rate approaching
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Soybean farmers hope for a higher soybean target price
According to a sample survey of 5 counties (cities) in Heilongjiang Province, the grain-planting intentions of surveyed households showed a "two increases and one decrease" trend, namely an increase in rice, an increase in corn, and a decrease in soybeans, with soybeans down 13.9% among surveyed households. The reasons include the following aspects: First, rice and corn still have an efficiency advantage.
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Higher summer harvest efficiency, with mechanized harvesting playing an indispensable role
In late June, the large-scale cross-regional mechanized harvesting in China's main wheat-producing areas was fully completed. This year during the "three summers," localities across the country invested a total of 560,000 combine harvesters, with a mechanized harvesting rate exceeding 92%. The agricultural authorities' meticulous organization and scheduling of the summer harvest, the promotion and application of a batch of new agricultural mechanization technologies,
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Why Are Domestic Grain Prices Higher Than Foreign Prices? An Analysis of Four Major Reasons
In response to the situation of persistently high grain price gaps between domestic and international markets, there are two views: one is to stop producing it ourselves and just import, and the other is to drive all farmers off the land and pursue large-scale agriculture. However, Chen Xiwen believes that agricultural policy is not merely an industrial policy, but a social policy that concerns the survival
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