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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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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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Purchase prices for China's three major staple grains fall across the board, farmers' income could suffer losses in the hundreds of billions
A bumper grain harvest, a sharp drop in grain prices, and a plunge in farmers' income. Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices is particularly pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of more than 20%, and the largest decline reaching 30% compared with last year
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Agricultural e-commerce suffers widespread losses, yet internet giants remain optimistic
Recently, the agriculture-related e-commerce company Yimutian has frequently been thrust into the spotlight of public opinion due to news such as "data too good to be true, accused of falsification." A report claims that among the thousands of agricultural product e-commerce companies nationwide, 95% are operating at a loss, which has triggered public doubts about agriculture-related e-commerce. However, major internet
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The Poverty Alleviation Paradox: The Government Pours in Money, but Farmers Sink Deeper into Losses
In a certain area in western China, a rabbit-breeding craze once sprang up to help people escape poverty. The government pooled funds of various kinds to support it, and at its peak the rabbit population approached 400,000. But market conditions changed drastically, and in just 5 years the industry scale shrank to fewer than 70,000 rabbits. Many farming
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Technical Guidance on Reducing Losses in Mechanized Wheat Harvesting was issued by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015
This technical guidance applies to wheat harvesting operations using full-feed combine harvesters. Within a given area, wheat varieties and planting patterns should be as uniform and consistent as possible, and crop and field conditions should be suitable for mechanized harvesting. Operators should inspect and adjust the machinery in advance
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