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Grain reserve procurement should make it easier for farmers to sell grain
Recently, reporters conducted a survey of grain procurement in Changsha, Changde and other places in Hunan, visiting local state-owned grain purchasing and storage enterprises, private grain processing enterprises, grain purchasing and sales brokers, and ordinary farmers. During the survey, reporters found that during the period of minimum purchase price procurement for grain
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What to Do When Farming Doesn't Pay? Professional Farmers Step In to Crack the Problem
Most farming households in our rural areas now have just seven or eight mu of land, or a dozen mu; each household farms only this little bit of land, and the money earned from one mu of land is about the same as what you'd earn working in the city for a week. Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said, how
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How can rural capital start flowing? Injecting financial vitality into rural revitalization
Recently, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Carrying Out Pilot Programs for Mortgage Loans on Rural Contracted Land Management Rights and Farmers' Housing Property Rights" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), for thoroughly implementing the spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 18th Central Committee
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The Ministry of Finance makes arrangements to do a good job in establishing the agricultural credit guarantee system
According to news from the Ministry of Finance website on the 11th, in response to the issues reported through consultations from various localities, and in order to further clarify relevant policies and do a good job in establishing the agricultural credit guarantee system, the Department of Agriculture of the Ministry of Finance issued a supplementary notice on further doing a good job in the fiscal support for the establishment of the agricultural credit guarantee system.
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Diversifying Staple Foods: Technological Innovation Makes People's Diets More Nutritious and Healthier
Technological Innovation Leads the Diversification of Staple Foods, Making People's Diets More Nutritious and Healthier. International Symposium on Potato Staple Food Products and Industrial Development Held in Beijing. This website reports: On July 29, the Ministry of Agriculture held the International Symposium on Potato Staple Food Products and Industrial Development in Beijing. The meeting proposed
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Rooting out the fake seed problem requires relevant departments to step up and take responsibility
A few days ago, the Ministry of Agriculture released the results of a seed market inspection, issuing a warning that these seeds should not be bought for spring plowing preparation. A total of 44 kinds of seeds, including rice and corn, were found to be substandard, with the production and operating units located across 20 provinces and municipalities including Tianjin, Hunan and Guangdong. And
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Unified bidding management for agricultural supplies makes quality and price stand up to public scrutiny
Agricultural supply prices are posted publicly, so we know where we stand when buying them, the prices are transparent. On the morning of May 18, Ji Rentai, a worker of the 11th Company of the 81st Regiment of the Fifth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, said while looking at the price notice board in the agricultural supply supermarket that all agricultural supply prices are open and transparent, and every
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Why is it hard for pineapple growers to make big money despite rising pineapple prices?
Recently, pineapples have finally fetched a good price, with the high price reaching 1.8 yuan per jin. On April 1, the author toured Xuwen County, a major pineapple-growing county, and found that although pineapple prices were good, the growers could not smile. Before the Spring Festival, Xuwen pineapples had already begun to be harvested, but pineapple prices had never been able to pick up,
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How does land transfer benefit everyone?
A few days ago, Yang Jun, a farmer from Jianli, Hubei, who works as a dim sum chef in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, invited his parents to Hangzhou to help out at his bun shop. My wife and I have worked in Jiangsu and Zhejiang for 10 years, and the bun shop business is quite good. We have long wanted my parents to come and help, but they just could not bear to part with
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Conditions for Making Potatoes a Staple Food Are Ripe, but Concerns Over Price Fluctuations Remain
At a seminar recently held by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, advancing potatoes to become China's fourth-largest staple food crop was publicly proposed from a national strategic perspective for the first time, and it has also become a focus of heated public discussion in recent days. As of January 10, on Sina Weibo alone, views of the topic "potatoes become a staple food" had
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