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Normalized grain production growth: innovating agricultural development methods is key
In recent years, Yongqiao District of Suzhou City, Anhui Province, as an important national grain production base, has strengthened its sense of overall interests, consciously shouldered the responsibility of safeguarding national food security, and, driven by the construction of the National Modern Agriculture Demonstration Zone and the National Comprehensive Rural Reform Pilot Zone, innovated modern agriculture
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Rising Risk of Corn Price Pullback, Tight Supply of High-Quality Grain May Ease
Since June and July, corn futures prices have risen sharply, driven by drought weather and tight supply of high-quality grain, with the near-month 1409 contract showing the most pronounced trend. In the short two months to the end of August, corn 1409 rose about 14.58%, and 1501 rose about 4.35%. The earlier rapid
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Rising Risks for Corn as Prices Face a Pullback; Tight Supply of High-Quality Grain May Ease
Since June and July, corn futures prices have risen sharply, driven by drought weather and tight supply of high-quality grain. Among them, the nearby 1409 contract showed the most obvious trend, with corn 1409 rising about 14.58% and 1501 rising about 4.35% in the short two months to the end of August. The earlier rapid rise in corn futures prices
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The rise in farmland transfer fees for grain fields must be moderate; the rate of increase should not be too fast
According to recent media reports, competitive bidding for contracted land in Yinji Town, Jinhu County, Huai'an, Jiangsu, has pushed up the value of grain fields once again. The annual contract fee has risen from 700-750 yuan/mu in the past to 950-1070 yuan/mu now. Yinji Town currently has 43,000 mu of grain fields, and 38,000 mu has already been transferred.
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China's wheat total production and per-unit yield increases both hit an 8-year high
According to a report by CCTV.com, building on the high base of consecutive years of grain production increases, China's wheat has again achieved a bumper harvest this year, with the increases in both total production and per-unit yield reaching their highest levels in 8 years, making it the only one of the three major staple grains to achieve 11 consecutive years of increased production. The latest statistics show
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Support for college-graduate village officials in starting businesses still needs to be increased
College-graduate village officials are an important group of young people active on the front lines of modern agriculture and new rural construction. They generally have characteristics such as a high level of education, good overall quality and strong creativity, and they are also an important group of young rural entrepreneurs and an important part of the "new farmers."
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Who is the driving force behind the increase in China's corn imports?
In July this year, China's corn imports reached 86,000 tonnes, up 217% month-on-month and up 18% compared with the same period last year. In recent years, corn imports have climbed steadily, showing explosive growth since 2010, jumping from 83,000 tonnes in 2009 to 1.572 million tonnes, an increase of nearly 18 times year-on-year.
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China's agricultural mechanization level rises 27 percentage points in ten years
Bi Meijia, Chief Economist of China's Ministry of Agriculture, said on the 24th at the "Foundation of a Great Nation - China Rural Development Golden Autumn Report Conference" organized by China National Radio's China Countryside Voice that in 2013, China's comprehensive mechanization level for crop cultivation and harvesting reached 59.5%, an increase of
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New rice varieties "compete in the same field" to pave the way for increased grain production
As the rice harvest season approaches, the rice variety demonstration area at the Jinsha New District rice planting experimental demonstration zone presents a scene of bountiful harvest. Recently, the Seed Management Office of the Municipal Agriculture Committee organized the Municipal Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, Jinsha New District, and agricultural officials from all districts and counties, along with seed dealers and large-scale rice growers.
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Strive to increase the area under efficient water-saving irrigation to 30% by 2020
The State Council Information Office held a press conference. Li Guoying, Vice Minister of Water Resources, when introducing China's water-saving irrigation situation, said that water-saving irrigation must be vigorously developed, and efforts should be made to increase the proportion of efficient water-saving irrigation area in effective irrigation area to more than 30% by 2020.
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