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China accelerates the comprehensive utilization of sericulture resources
Recently, the reporter learned from the national on-site meeting on comprehensive utilization of sericulture resources held by the Ministry of Agriculture in Yizhou, Guangxi, that in 2014, the output value of diversified utilization of sericulture resources in China reached nearly 15.5 billion yuan, an increase of 59% over the 5.7 billion yuan in 2010. This indicates that China's sericulture industry is accelerating its leap from the traditional single-industry development model of "one cocoon" and "one thread of silk" to the diversified development model of "one mulberry field" and "a series of resources."
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Two ministries tackle agricultural film pollution, utilization rate to reach 80% by 2020
On October 27, it was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that on October 20-21, the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly held a national on-site meeting in Lanzhou, Gansu Province to promote the comprehensive utilization of agricultural film. The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to fully summarize and promote good experiences and good practices from various regions, continuously increase work
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Guidelines for the Application for Agricultural Comprehensive Development Industrialization Operation Projects Issued in 2016
News of October 16: In order to better select the best options and encourage eligible leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, farmers' professional cooperatives and specialized large households, family farms, agricultural socialized service organizations, and other new types of agricultural operation entities to apply for the 2016 National Agricultural Comprehensive Development
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Good policies must truly think about what farmers think and keep farmers' needs at heart.
Straw utilization is an old topic, but it attracts people's attention every year during the summer and autumn harvests. Before the 1990s, straw was fuel for boiling water and cooking in rural areas. Farmers raising livestock used straw leaves to feed sheep and used stalks to make fires. At that time, rural energy was in short supply, and no uncut straw could be seen on cultivated land.
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Grassland agriculture is a new frontier for building ecological civilization
China is in the midst of a grand transition from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, and ecological and environmental problems have become one of the prominent issues constraining economic development and affecting social harmony and stability. The 2015 No. 1 Central Document proposed promoting the coordinated development of a three-way planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage grass, a decision that pointed out the path for the sustainable development of China's agriculture in the future. The grassland agriculture system is a modern agricultural system that satisfies the food structure of modern people, balances both ecology and production, and can develop sustainably. Developing grassland agriculture is a new frontier for building ecological civilization in China and is of great significance for safeguarding China's ecological security and promoting the sustainable development of agriculture.
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Potatoes as a Staple Food: An Emerging Trend - How the Humble Potato Conquered the World
The pastries and snacks made with potato as the main ingredient are delicious and tempting. The potato, scientifically known as Solanum tuberosum, is the world's fourth-largest food crop. According to statistics from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the world's total potato output in 2013 was 376 million tons. With the establishment in recent years of China's strategy to make potatoes a staple food, China's potato planting area reached 5.57 million hectares in 2014, with fresh potato output of more than 95 million tons; both the area and the output account for about one quarter of the world's total, and China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes.
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Development of agricultural mechanization in mountainous areas needs to be accelerated
Anhui is a major agricultural province and also a major province in the use of agricultural machinery. At present, the province's total agricultural machinery power has reached 63.65 million kilowatts, ranking fourth in the country; the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvesting has reached 69.6%, 8 percentage points higher than the national average. However, the development of agricultural mechanization
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How does informatization lead the transformation and upgrading of modern agriculture?
Agricultural informatization is an important hallmark of agricultural modernization. Advancing agricultural informatization is an urgent necessity for accelerating the transformation of the way agriculture development is conceived, the way production develops, the way agricultural products are marketed, and the way agricultural services and guidance are provided; it is also the prevailing trend. In recent years, Jiangsu Province
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Agricultural social service organizations serve farmers, but who serves them?
Support mechanisms are generally lacking. Take Hunan Province's currently most mature agricultural machinery services and integrated pest and disease control services as examples: these two types of service organizations face difficulties such as gaps in corporate after-sales service and having to shoulder production risks. During this year's spring plowing season, Sanming Agricultural Machinery Cooperative in Changsha County had
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Farmers' Professional Cooperatives Accelerate China's Agricultural Modernization
In Beizhuang Village, Nanhe County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, major grain grower Li Shouxin has contracted 3000 mu of land from the whole village, and 216 households of members in the village have joined the Shouxin Planting Cooperative. After the cooperative was established, it not only increased the average grain yield per mu, but also fattened the wallets of the members.
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