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Grain prices plummet, farmers' incomes drop sharply, and finances and stockpiles are under pressure too
This year's grain prices have fallen too hard. Liu Xueyou said helplessly. Liu Xueyou, 51 this year, is a major grain grower in Xi County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, with more than 16,000 mu of transferred land, accounting for one percent of the county's total arable land, and is known as the "Grain King of Henan." The fall in grain prices caught him
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Rural Grain Production: Mixed Blessings, Opportunities and Challenges Coexist
China's current agriculture, the overall development situation is good, farmers basically live and work in peace and contentment, and rural production and living conditions have been improved considerably. We visited Shayang County, a major grain and rapeseed county in Hubei Province (part of the "China Agricultural Valley" in Jingmen, Hubei
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Fighting the Critical Battle of Poverty Alleviation: Storming the Fortifications, Resolutely Winning the Final Decisive Battle
In less than six years, lifting more than 70 million people out of poverty means reducing the poor population by more than 10 million each year, and by 1 million each month. In the Recommendations for the 13th Five-Year Plan, lifting the rural poor out of poverty was called "the most arduous task." Whether this task can be completed on schedule, and how the critical battle of poverty alleviation can be won,
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The Ministry of Agriculture Issues the Technical Specification for Harmless Treatment of Dead Animals
To the animal husbandry and veterinary (animal husbandry and agriculture) departments (bureaus, commissions, offices) of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and cities under separate state planning, and the Agriculture Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: In order to further standardize the operating techniques for harmless treatment of dead animals, effectively prevent and control major animal epidemics, and ensure
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Corn prices keep falling, but the truth is that Chinese farmers are still running a slight surplus
Introduction: Every year in August, it is the period when new domestic corn has not yet hit the market and the price of old corn rises slightly, but this year domestic corn prices have been sliding all the way down. On September 18, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Agricultural Development Bank and other departments jointly issued a notice that starting in November, the state temporary storage corn listing purchase price will be set at 1 yuan per jin, 0.13 yuan per jin lower than last year's temporary storage price.
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Why is the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China less than 50%?
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said on the 23rd that due to the massive use of chemical fertilizers, insufficient rural environmental protection investment and other factors, composting is becoming increasingly rare in rural areas, and the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China is now below 50%. Zhang Taolin made the remarks at the 2015 International Composting Conference
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Selling Grain Is Hard, Stacked on Top of Debt-Financed Farming: China's Grain Subsidies Are Less Than One-Tenth of Europe's and America's
Economic Observer reporter Jiang Yunzhang: Wheat is falling, corn is falling too. This year's grain prices are truly baffling! A bumper grain harvest is normally a happy occasion, but Liang Yukui (pseudonym), a large-scale grain farmer in the Yunan area of Henan Province, cannot bring himself to feel glad at all. In previous years, in response to
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How Can Agriculture in Mountainous Areas Develop? Lessons and Insights from Home and Abroad
China is a country of many mountains, with mountainous areas accounting for nearly 70% of the national land area. How exactly should agriculture in mountainous areas (especially poor inland regions) develop? Carefully studying and summarizing the successful experiences of agricultural development in mountainous areas at home and abroad, especially in areas surrounding China, has
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Targeted poverty alleviation must root out the causes of poverty in governance
As the second National "Poverty Relief Day" approaches, "inaccurate" poverty alleviation has become a hot topic of recent discussion. A notice from the National Audit Office shows that in Mashan County, Guangxi, 3,119 people did not meet the criteria for poverty registration, of whom 343 were financially supported by the government, and 2,454 had also purchased
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Is environmental tree planting really beneficial with no harm? These impacts you need to know
Nowadays, regarding the protection of the ecological environment and natural resources, people seem to have transformed the concept of "planting greenery on Arbor Day" into "not only planting trees but also protecting greenery." There are calls to gradually change the calculation of "forest coverage rate" to the calculation of "wild grass coverage rate." When many people mention environmental protection, they think of planting
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