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The General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture issues a notice deploying the autumn-winter campaign against counterfeit agricultural materials
To the agriculture (agriculture and animal husbandry, rural economy) departments (bureaus, commissions) of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Agriculture Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: In order to earnestly implement the "2014 National Key Points for Combating Counterfeit Agricultural Materials and Regulatory Work" and the Ministry of Agriculture's "2014 National Special Campaign against Counterfeit Agricultural Materials
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Increasingly Frequent Extreme Weather May Trigger Food Crises in Developing Countries
According to a November 26 report by CNA, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on the 26th that drought, floods and other extreme weather have become increasingly frequent and severe over the past 30 years, and will raise the threat to food security in developing countries. In its report, the FAO pointed out that from 2003 to 2013, natural
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Actively Responding to the Impact of Climate Change on China's Agricultural Production
Against the backdrop of global warming, the frequency and intensity of extreme drought events are steadily intensifying, and China's agricultural production is increasingly affected by extreme drought events. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that from the 1950s to the first decade of this century, the affected area of China's crops doubled, and the damaged area increased by 2.8 times; over the same period, the severity of the damage increased markedly, with the damage rate among affected areas rising from 32% to 58%; in addition, the scope of impact of extreme drought events expanded from the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the 1950s to the vast areas of Northeast China, the northwest interior and the southwest today. Improving agriculture's capacity to adapt to climate change is an important component of implementing the national master plan for climate change adaptation and is crucial to safeguarding China's food security.
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Compilation of China's climate regionalization for the past 30 years completed, impacts of shifts in climate patterns emerge
Recently, the public welfare industry (meteorological) scientific research special project "Compilation of China's Climate Atlas and Climate Regionalization Research for the Most Recent 30 Years" passed acceptance. Focusing on the urgent need for a new type of climate regionalization in China's climate research and operational work, and addressing the changes that have occurred in China's regional climate distribution pattern against the background of climate change,
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New GMO labeling rules introduced: products made with GM raw materials must be labeled, mung beans prohibited from being labeled non-GMO
New GMO (GM) labeling rules: products processed with GM raw materials must be clearly labeled, while crops such as mung beans that have no GM varieties may not be labeled 'non-GMO'. This article explains the scope of labeling, the reasons behind it, and key compliance points for growers and businesses.
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