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Crop price insurance lets farmers lock in profits without losses
If paying more than 20 yuan per mu in insurance premiums could guarantee the profitability of grain farming, I would certainly be willing to pay. The speaker is Liu Jianlin, a major grain farmer in Xueyan Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City. This year he planted more than 600 mu of rice; half of the plots yielded more than 650 kg of paddy per mu, while the other half could not be harvested in time due to rainy weather and yielded only 450 kg per mu. Moreover, this year the price of paddy was 0.46 yuan per kg lower than last year, so the profitability of grain farming was much worse than in previous years.
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Corn temporary storage price cut leaves farmers and enterprises crying losses
Farmers cry compensation, enterprises cry losses, state cuts corn temporary storage price, rippling a pool of water. Reporter Wang Peilian, China Youth Daily (December 03, 2015, page 06). Recently, Hua Shujun, a large corn grower living in Gaojia Village, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, often goes to the national storage depot near the village to inquire about corn purchase prices and intake conditions.
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Rural e-commerce faces the dilemma of logistics losses reaching 30% and lagging support services
Logistics losses for agricultural products reach 30%; chaos abounds in the training segment; support is crippled: entrepreneurship has a path, but implementation has no door. Reporters from Economic Information Daily recently conducted surveys in some rural areas of Jiangsu, Hubei, Guangxi, Hainan and other places and learned that at present, rural e-commerce plays an important role in
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Grain output may slump due to difficulties in selling grain and losses in growing it
From the start of the summer grain purchase season to the concentrated marketing of autumn grain, reporters conducting sustained follow-up interviews along several major producing provinces including Henan and Hubei found that, because of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests and the continuous one-way rise in the floor purchase price, the current grain circulation and procurement-storage links show many new trends: in some areas
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Grain farmers, rest assured: growing grain will never leave you worse off
We must do everything possible to transform the mode of agricultural development, raise the overall grain production capacity, and protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices. Agricultural monitoring shows that domestic grain prices have been basically stable,
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China's grain loss and waste is close to 6% of total annual output, making grain conservation imperative
In recent years, China's grain imports have surged, with the total approaching 6% of domestic production. Under the severe situation of safeguarding domestic food security, the grain loss and waste caused each year in China merely in off-the-table stages such as farmer household grain storage, warehousing and transportation, and processing is as high as
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China's soil erosion area accounts for 30% of its landmass, with one million mu of farmland lost every year
First national-level soil and water conservation plan approved. Recently, the State Council issued the "Reply on the National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Reply"), in principle agreeing to the "National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan
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State encourages farmers to use scientific grain storage bins, reducing grain storage losses every year
Recently, experts from the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the State Administration of Grain explained knowledge about grain production and grain saving and loss reduction to Lu Tingzhan (center), a large-scale grower at the Tingyuan Family Farm in Fugou County, Henan Province. During the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week
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How can fertilizer reduction avoid yield loss? Improving fertilizer efficiency is key
——Interview with Yang Fan of the Soil and Fertilizer Technology Division of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center. Since the Ministry of Agriculture launched the action to achieve zero growth in chemical fertilizer use nationwide this year, reducing chemical fertilizer use and curbing the decline in arable land quality have gradually become a general social consensus, and the action has progressed relatively
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Soil loss is expected to decrease by an average of 800 million tons per year nationwide by 2020
Signed and approved by Premier Li Keqiang, the State Council recently issued the "Reply on the National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)", in principle agreeing to the "National Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2015-2030)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The "Plan" is for the coming period
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