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Southern Potato Conference Held: More Than 50% of Potatoes in China Will Be Consumed as a Staple Food by 2025
From December 17 to 18, the 2015 Southern Potato Conference was held in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, with more than 400 academic and industry professionals from home and abroad in attendance. According to statistics from the Potato Professional Committee of the Crop Science Society of China, from 2010 to 2014, China's potato
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Grain production structure set for prudent reform
Amid the "twelve consecutive years of increase" in grain output, although some voices suggest that a moderate reduction in grain output could be considered, an article published by People's Daily on December 15 argues that adjusting the grain production structure is extremely urgent, that grain production must adapt to the new normal, and that grain reform
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One out of every 7 jin of grain in China is imported; grain structure reform will shift direction
On one side is a full granary of domestically produced grain after twelve consecutive years of bumper harvests, and on the other is low-priced imported grain that has once again exceeded 100 million tonnes. The inversion of domestic and international prices highlights the lagging competitiveness of Chinese agriculture and further strains the nerves of grain policy adjustment. Statistics show that in the first 11 months of 2015, imported grain
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China Is Vigorously Developing Modern Agriculture: Farmers' Incomes Will Exceed Those of Urban Residents in the Future
On the evening of December 1, Dai Xiaofeng, director of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, gave an interview to reporters in Jinan on the eve of the National Agricultural Product Processing Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Event and the Agricultural Product Processing Technology Achievement Trade Fair. China.com, December 7 (In-Depth Reading reporter
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China's agricultural product processing industry output value will exceed 20 trillion yuan
Zong Jinyao, Director of the Agricultural Product Processing Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said on the 2nd in Jinan, Shandong that China's agricultural product processing industry is increasingly becoming a foundational, strategic and pillar industry of the national economy, and it is expected that this year the main business revenue of China's agricultural product processing industry will exceed 20 trillion yuan, accounting for about
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The supply-demand pattern in the wheat circulation market will gradually ease
At present, the domestic wheat market as a whole shows a phased "supply down, demand up" trend, with wheat prices rising steadily, though the year-on-year decline remains fairly pronounced. Wheat imports continue unabated, and the price gap between domestic and imported wheat has widened somewhat. It is expected that as wheat prices gradually recover, the supply-demand pattern in the circulation market will gradually ease
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China's domestic grain demand will reach 1.4 trillion jin in five years
Data: 2014 grain imports exceeded 100 million tons for the first time. From the perspective of the domestic production situation, this year marks the 12th consecutive year of grain output growth, with production expected to reach about 1.23 trillion jin. Chen Xiwen, deputy head and director of the office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group and deputy director of the office of the Central Financial and Economic Leading Group
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Agriculture's advantageous and specialty industries will receive key support, ushering in new opportunities for development
The Ministry of Finance recently issued the "Guiding Opinions on Supporting Agriculture's Advantageous and Specialty Industries through Comprehensive Agricultural Development to Promote the Development of Agricultural Industrialization," which explicitly proposes that starting from 2016, comprehensive agricultural development industrialization operation projects will focus on supporting regional agriculture's advantageous and specialty industries. In this
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Increasingly Frequent Extreme Weather May Trigger Food Crises in Developing Countries
According to a November 26 report by CNA, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on the 26th that drought, floods and other extreme weather have become increasingly frequent and severe over the past 30 years, and will raise the threat to food security in developing countries. In its report, the FAO pointed out that from 2003 to 2013, natural
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China's agricultural trade deficit will become the norm
Although China's grain production has achieved 11 consecutive years of growth since 2004, agricultural trade has correspondingly shown a "dual norm" phenomenon of a normalized trade deficit and normalized price inversion. This was learned from the 2015 (Third) China Grain and Food Security Strategy Summit. According to the State
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