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Increasing grain imports to ensure food security, real grain prices tend to decline
The issue of food security is an old topic. People of insight have long known that the Chinese can fully feed themselves. As early as 1994, when Lester Brown came to China with alarming claims, many domestic scholars pointed out that there were loopholes in Brown's calculations, the most serious being
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Egg and pork prices fall for the first time, a lower CPI increase in September becomes the consensus
As egg prices and pork prices, which have an important impact on household consumption, saw their first decline after consecutive rises, a lower CPI increase in September has also become the consensus in the industry. On October 15, the National Bureau of Statistics will release the September CPI and PPI figures. China
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Rice yields in demonstration zones increase by about 10%, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences technology integration shows results
The China Academy of Agricultural Sciences carried out an integrated experiment on high-yield and high-efficiency comprehensive rice technology this year. During interviews, reporters learned that the experimental results are encouraging, with yields about 10% higher than conventional planting. Chen Mengshan, Party Secretary of the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that in recent years, the growth rate of China's grain yield per unit area has been declining, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to raise yields.
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The biggest potential for increasing farmers' income lies in institutional fairness
In 2013, nationwide farmers' income growth achieved a "tenth consecutive year of rapid growth," taking another solid step toward accomplishing the goal of doubling income set by the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. But the problem of an excessively large urban-rural income gap has still not been reversed, the problem of income imbalance within rural areas is becoming increasingly prominent, and farmers'
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Research on Integrated Technology Model for Increasing Rice Yield and Efficiency by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Achieves Results
Website news. Recently, at the on-site demonstration meeting for integrated technology of double-season late rice hosted by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 7 key technologies for double-season late rice production from variety selection, seedling raising, and field management to harvest were showcased, and the attending leaders and experts highly praised the encouraging results achieved in the integrated research on yield-increasing and efficiency-enhancing technologies.
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Correctly understanding agricultural insurance: farmers' willingness to participate has increased year by year
Agricultural insurance is a "green box" policy that the WTO allows countries to use to support agriculture. It is one of the three pillars of modern agricultural development under market economy conditions, and also an important tool for transferring agricultural risks. China began establishing a policy-based agricultural insurance system in 2004
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How does the development of leisure agriculture promote increases in farmers' income?
Since the reform and opening up, China's leisure agriculture has gone through the historical stages of emergence, initial development and all-round development. After entering the new century, leisure agriculture has flourished in all regions, showing the characteristics of a steadily expanding industrial scale, continuously enriched development content, increasingly diverse types and models, a
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After eight consecutive years of minimum purchase price increases for wheat, grain traders bet wrong this year
The National Development and Reform Commission recently announced that the 2015 minimum purchase price for wheat is 118 yuan per 50 kg (1.18 yuan per jin), unchanged from the 2014 level. As soon as the news was announced, grain traders who had stockpiled wheat at high prices in the hope of selling for a good price were stunned. One industry insider
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Winter wheat planting progresses quickly, high-quality wheat acreage increases this year
This year, domestic winter wheat planting has progressed quickly and with good quality, laying a solid foundation for a bumper wheat harvest next year. It is understood that this year's autumn crops were cleared from the fields quickly, which helped farmers prepare the land for sowing, and after the autumn harvest, northern regions experienced rainfall several times, which increased soil moisture,
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Agricultural industrialization becomes a fast track for farmers to increase income locally
How can the millions of farming households be organized to carry out targeted assistance, so that the guiding role of fiscal poverty alleviation funds in achieving maximum results with minimal input can be fully brought into play, while also letting the market play a decisive role? The answer is becoming increasingly clear in Zhejiang: through the organization of the agricultural industry,
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