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Why have corn prices fallen, and how big is the impact on farmers?
After a heavy snowfall, a grain broker came to the home of corn grower Zhao Jincheng to inspect the grain. "Now it has to be graded as third-class; it doesn't make second-class." "If it's third-class, after deducting freight and delivering it to the destination, it can only sell for 0.71 yuan." The corn price fell from 0.90 yuan per jin in 2014 to 0.71 yuan per jin this year. Neighbors and relatives all stored their corn, waiting to see how the price would move. But Zhao Jincheng urgently needed money, so he had to sell even at a low price, because he still had a loan to repay as soon as possible.
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How Fresh Agricultural Products Can Embrace the Internet Era
E-commerce heavyweights discuss together -- how fresh agricultural products can embrace the internet. After the initial enthusiasm, the bottleneck for agricultural product e-commerce, especially fresh produce e-commerce, has become increasingly prominent. Recently, at the second China Agricultural Product E-commerce Conference held in Weifang, a number of
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How Does a Tiny Potato Build a Big Industry?
In recent years, Dingbian County in Shaanxi Province has been making every effort to build a potato industry chain. The county's potato planting area has long remained above 1 million mu, with an output of more than 1 million tonnes, an average annual total output value of 1 billion yuan, and accounting for more than 50% of farmers' income. Dingbian potatoes are not only popular in the domestic market,
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How big exactly is the impact of falling grain prices on agricultural inputs?
Brief overview: In October, as the new-season corn from Northeast China came onto the market in large quantities, corn prices continued the downward trend of August and September, declining further across a wide area. On September 18, the state temporary storage corn purchase listing price was set at 1 yuan/jin, up to 0.13 yuan/jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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How big is the impact of lower grain prices on new rural business entities?
Close attention should be paid to the chain reactions triggered by lower grain prices, and precautions should be taken to prevent localized difficulties in selling grain from turning into large-scale, systemic difficulties in selling grain, which would in turn deal a blow to the growing new rural business entities. From the start of summer grain purchasing to the concentrated listing of autumn grain, Outlook Newsweek
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How Big Is El Niño's Impact on Seed Production? Interpreting the Latest Survey Findings
Recently, claims like this have been circulating online: this year's El Niño phenomenon has severely affected seed production in the north, with seed production yields in Gansu and especially many places in Xinjiang being low or even failing completely, and the large-scale reduction in northern seed production will lead to a substantial increase in seed prices next year.
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Fertilizer VAT to Be Levied from September 1 as Decided: How Big an Impact on Fertilizer Production and Sales?
The news of resuming the collection of fertilizer VAT, which has attracted widespread attention since last year, will have its answer revealed in the coming days! It is said that all fertilizers will uniformly resume being subject to the tax, and the implementation start date is most likely to be set on September 1, 2015. In particular, there are rumors that the government document on the fertilizer VAT policy is highly likely to be published tomorrow.
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How can the agricultural film industry grow from big to strong?
To meet the needs of agricultural production, after years of technological innovation and scientific research and development, China's agricultural plastics products industry has created several world firsts: the world's number one in agricultural film production; the world's number one in agricultural film coverage area, of which plastic mulching film coverage area is 380 million mu,
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Strong-gluten wheat snapped up and hoarded at high prices: how big is the market risk ahead?
Since late June, as the wheat harvest north of the Yellow River has basically ended, the range of new wheat coming onto the market in the main producing areas has gradually expanded, and market buying and selling has become more active than in the earlier period. Judging from recent purchasing conditions in various regions, the price of new ordinary wheat has been running relatively stable, but price trends in the north and south
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How can agricultural big data provide strong support for agricultural informatization?
The Second Agricultural Big Data Forum and the Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Big Data Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance, hosted by the Agricultural Big Data Research Center of Shandong Agricultural University, the Guangdong Institute of Modern Agricultural Equipment and other units, was recently held in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Participants focused on ag
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