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Global food prices rose 4% month-on-month in October, the biggest increase in three years
According to overseas media reports, the strongest El Nino in a century has finally begun to show its power in the market, with sugar, vegetable oils and dairy products leading the way, as global food prices posted their biggest increase in three years in October. According to the latest data released by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, this year
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Grain output has grown for years in a row, but food security still cannot be ignored
Food is the first necessity of the people, and grain is the foundation of food; grain has always played an indispensable role in human survival and development. Judging by the world's grain supply, grain output has remained in a state of continuous increase. According to forecasts by relevant departments, this year China's grain is expected
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Measures decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on November 11, at which measures were decided to stabilize grain production and increase grain-growing incomes, so as to safeguard food security and farmers' interests. The meeting noted that China's grain output has increased for consecutive years and another bumper harvest has been achieved this year, which has strongly supported economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods, but problems also exist such as a sharp increase in inventories and falling prices. As it is now the time for autumn harvest and winter planting, multiple measures must be taken to effectively protect farmers' interests and their enthusiasm for growing grain. First, we must do a good job in purchasing autumn grain, increase investment in the construction of storage facilities, speed up the progress of grain depots under construction and those being repaired or renovated, additionally increase the plan for trans-provincial depot transfers as needed, increase the transport of grain from the north to the south, promptly introduce policies to encourage processing enterprises to enter the market to buy grain, strictly investigate "IOUs" and the practice of depressing grades and prices, and prevent difficulties in selling grain. Second, we must steadily digest existing inventories and reclassify eligible temporary stored corn as one-time state reserves. We must strengthen grain storage management to ensure the safety of stored grain. Third, we must do a good job in winter and spring agricultural production, speed up water conservancy construction such as irrigation and drainage facilities, and strengthen the supply guarantee of agricultural means of production. We must increase investment in the construction of high-standard farmland, with priority tilted toward main producing areas. Fourth, we must reform the mechanisms for grain price formation and purchase and storage, improve the subsidy policies for corn and soybeans, and continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy next year for staple grain varieties such as wheat and rice. Fifth, we must promote the conversion of sloping land in the south back to forest, advance fallow land and corn-soybean rotation, expand the pilot scope of "changing grain to feed," and promote the adjustment of the planting structure.
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Central government increases premium subsidies for agricultural insurance to benefit farmers
China's insurance regulator said on the 13th that the upgrade and overhaul of central-government premium-subsidized agricultural insurance products launched nationwide at the beginning of this year has been completed, covering 15 categories of crops and 6 categories of livestock and aquaculture varieties, totaling 738 agricultural insurance products. After the upgrade, the protection provided by agricultural insurance products
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Central government increases agricultural insurance premium subsidies to benefit farmers
China's insurance regulator said on the 13th that the upgrading and renovation of central-government-premium-subsidized agricultural insurance products carried out nationwide at the start of this year has been completed, covering 15 categories of crops and 6 categories of livestock breeds, totaling 738 agricultural insurance products. After the upgrade, the protection level of agricultural insurance products
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Greater Support and Protection for Agriculture, with Innovation as the Key
The support and protection system is at the core of agricultural policy in a modern country, and providing necessary support and protection for agriculture is an objective requirement for developing modern agriculture. The "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") explicitly states that we must adhere to the basic policy of giving more, taking less, and loosening control, focus on ensuring the supply of major agricultural products, promoting farmers' income growth, and achieving sustainable agricultural development, and accelerate the formation of an agricultural support and protection system that is comprehensive in coverage, clearly targeted, focused on key areas, supported by matching measures, and simple to operate.
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It Is Hard to Sustain the Continuous Increase of Domestic Grain Procurement Prices, and the Processing Industry Is Barely Alive
The agricultural products market is now very bad. Cargill, the world's largest grain trader, has been reported to be laying off workers. This report, which Cargill has already denied, said that due to the agricultural economic downturn, Cargill may lay off as many as 4000 people, about 2.5% of its total workforce. Cargill
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China's national autumn and winter grain area is expected to increase by more than 1.3 million mu in 2015
Pan Wenbo, deputy director of the Planting Industry Management Department of China's Ministry of Agriculture, said in Beijing on the 19th that China's 2015 autumn and winter grain planting work is progressing smoothly, and the autumn and winter grain area is expected to increase by more than 1.3 million mu this year, with the foundation for next year's summer grain production looking good. On the same day, China's National Development and Reform
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Vegetable prices in Hangzhou, Zhejiang may soon see a new round of increases
According to the business forecast of the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Commerce, during this period (December 14 - December 20), the overall prices of daily necessities in Zhejiang Province rose, with vegetables and aquatic products leading the gains. As temperatures continue to drop, offshore fishing catches keep declining, and the overall output of freshwater fish is relatively weak,
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Guizhou promotes improved varieties, grain yield per mu increases by nearly 60 percent
Along with the promotion of improved agricultural varieties such as hybrid rice and hybrid corn, Guizhou's per-unit grain yield level has increased substantially. In 2015, Guizhou's average grain yield per mu reached 252.5 kg, an increase of 93.5 kg over 1978, with average yield per mu rising 58.8%; total annual grain output reached 11.8 million tons
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