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Many Pitfalls in Buying Seeds for Spring Plowing: Five Reminders to Keep in Mind
In the busy spring plowing season, the peak time for buying seeds has arrived once again. A recent survey of the seed market found that some farmers have certain misconceptions when choosing seeds. Recently, the Agricultural Technology Promotion Center of Sheqi County, Henan Province, organized agricultural experts to hold a science and technology training session, answering
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Sorghum prices keep falling: how should growers respond in 2014?
Since the start of 2014, sorghum prices have failed to match last year's highs and have kept falling. As of December 9, the purchase price of new-crop sorghum held at 1.00 yuan/jin, down another 11% compared with September, while the ex-factory price of old-crop cleaned grain fell by as much as 22%. 2014 sorghum prices
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How can grain be kept fresh in storage while safeguarding quantity, quality and ecological security?
At present, China's grain reserves have developed from the single-minded pursuit of quantity security to taking into account both quality security and ecological security. The greatest potential for safeguarding stored grain security lies in science and technology, and the fundamental path also lies in science and technology. The National Food Administration recently held the National Grain Science and Technology Innovation Conference and released
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Keeping a Close Watch on Rural "Three Assets" Requires Tightening the Institutional "Iron Cage"
As the rural economy continues to develop, the scale of rural collective funds, assets, and resources has also been increasing. However, for a long time, the management of rural "three assets" in many places has been non-standard and incomplete, gradually becoming an area prone to frequent grassroots corruption. Recently, in Jishou City, which is under the administration of Xiangxi, a
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Ministry of Agriculture Aims to Keep Wheat Planting Area in 5 Provinces Stable at Around 240 Million Mu
Our newspaper report: On October 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a symposium on wheat production development in the Huang-Huai-Hai region in Hebei. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong emphasized at the meeting that in wheat production development, stabilizing area is an important prerequisite, and increasing per-unit yield is the fundamental approach. For a period to come, it is necessary to
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Ministry of Agriculture aims to keep Huang-Huai-Hai wheat area stable at 240 million mu
Economic Daily, Cangzhou, Hebei, October 15 dispatch (Reporter Qiao Jinliang) The Ministry of Agriculture today held a forum on wheat production development in the Huang-Huai-Hai region in Cangzhou, Hebei. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong said that wheat is an important staple grain variety, and the Huang-Huai-Hai region is a superior production area for wheat
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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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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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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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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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