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Why does India's Darjeeling black tea output keep rising amid drought and the pandemic?
Under the double blow of dry weather and the COVID-19 pandemic, the harvest season in India's key tea-producing regions is facing the dual threat of falling output and stalled tea-picking operations, which could push already-risen tea prices even higher. The UK's Financial Times (FT) reported,
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Introduction to Bee Keeping Techniques and Common Types of Pests
Bee keeping also requires attention to the harm caused by pests. Bee pests include bee species, bee lice flies, and wax moths that damage the wax of brood combs. Bee enemies include toads, spiders, and hornets. Let's take a look below. Toads: Toads mostly appear in summer
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How to Keep a Savannah Monitor? Basic Care Tutorial
Do you like savannah monitors? Do you know how to keep them? Below is an introduction to keeping savannah monitors. Environment: Savannah monitors come from the African savanna. They like to climb and swim less. But they still need a large swimming pool. When young, they like
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Food rumors keep appearing on social media: what harm do they do?
The Food Sanitation Division also urges the public to maintain "reasonable doubt" toward rumors circulating online; unless they can be confirmed as true, it is better to let rumors stop with the wise and not forward or spread them further. Those who cannot tell true from false can provide the relevant information to the Food Sanitation Division, or go online and
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Farmers Need Encouragement to Buy Homes, Supporting Policies Must Keep Up
De-stocking is a powerful measure taken by the state in light of the current economic situation to boost development and improve people's livelihood. To a certain extent, it will inevitably bring a direct increase in the number of farmers becoming urbanized, but de-stocking is by no means a necessary precondition for farmers' urbanization, and farmers moving into cities is even less
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Ministry of Commerce monitoring shows ginseng prices keep rising while notoginseng keeps falling
Some are happy, some are worried. Of the 29 medicinal materials included in the statistical scope in 2013, 9 saw year-on-year price increases and 11 saw year-on-year price declines. Among them, the price of ginseng soared 80% year on year, while notoginseng fell by more than 30%. The above information comes from the latest release by the Ministry of Commerce
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International grain prices keep falling, and expanded grain imports are purely a market behavior
China's grain imports grew considerably this year. Data released by the General Administration of Customs show that this year grain imports, led by wheat, accelerated sharply, with grain imports surging 80.7% year on year in the first seven months. This has aroused concerns at home and abroad about China's food security. In response, experts
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Why is it hard to keep college graduates in agriculture despite free tuition?
To attract and cultivate agricultural talent, since 2006 Zhejiang has funded a free-tuition policy each year for students from the province enrolled in university agriculture-related majors in crop cultivation and livestock breeding. But a recent survey by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture showed that between 2011 and 2013, among those benefiting from the policy,
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What keeps agriculture from losing production when disaster strikes? Technical support and institutional safeguards
Hua County is the top grain-producing county in Henan Province and the top wheat county in China, long known as the "granary of northern Henan." Hua County has always kept firmly in mind its political responsibility to safeguard national food security, taking stabilizing grain production and increasing income as its core task and vigorously advancing modern agricultural development. In 2014, Hua County's summer grain production
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China's rural e-commerce consumption keeps growing, and this year's market size will hit a new high
Alibaba Research Institute released the "Rural E-commerce Consumption Report (2014)" on the 13th, showing that China's rural e-commerce consumer market has continued to expand in recent years, and it is expected that the national rural online shopping market size will reach 180 billion yuan in 2014. The report said that in the sample survey, rural
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