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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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Chen Xiwen: Urban-rural coordination means enabling people to move between cities and rural areas
GUIYANG, Nov. 14 (Chinanews.com, Huang Hua) The highest ideal of coordinated urban-rural development is to let people freely choose between cities and rural areas. Chen Xiwen, director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said this while delivering a lecture in Guiyang on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. He said the reason urban and rural development is currently uncoordinated
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How Can China's Agricultural Origin System Be Built by Market Means?
A few days ago, the Ministry of Commerce and other multiple departments jointly issued the "National Agricultural Product Market System Development Plan", proposing to initially build an agricultural product market system with Chinese characteristics by 2020. The plan is based on China's regional economic and social conditions, transportation locations, population distribution, and agricultural product circulation
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Subsidies and loans join forces for spring plowing as localities take multiple measures to safeguard farmers' production
In this year's spring plowing and spring sowing, besides actively promoting advanced agricultural facilities and technologies, localities are also helping farmers through subsidies, loans and other means. Jing Maoxiang, a major grain grower in Tangshan Town, Huantai County, Shandong, has contracted 2500 mu of wheat fields this year. These past two days, Huantai County's
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Protecting Traditional Villages Also Means Safeguarding Our Spiritual Homeland
The protection of China's traditional villages is drawing great attention from the state. A reporter recently learned from the Ministry of Finance that the central government will invest more than 10 billion yuan over a period of 3 years to advance the protection of traditional villages. The diversity of our Chinese nation's culture lies in the countryside, and the roots of that culture lie in
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What does Yuan Longping's rice yield mean?
Recently, while on a trip to the countryside for an interview, just as the rice flowers were filling the air with fragrance, I chatted with a few farmers beside a rice paddy, and the conversation turned to the new record set not long ago by Academician Yuan Longping's super rice of 1026.7 kg per mu. One farmer said, that is the yield of those scientists; for us farmers, it is
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Full efforts to secure winter wheat sown area, laying a solid foundation for next year's summer grain harvest
Cold Dew has passed, and autumn harvest and autumn sowing are in full swing. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop situation scheduling, as of October 8, winter wheat has completed 12% of the plan, 4.6 percentage points slower than the same period last year. Area is the foundation of yield, quality is the guarantee of per-unit yield, and the key is to accelerate sowing progress, expand the suitable sowing area, and improve sowing quality, so as to ensure full emergence in one sowing and safe overwintering of strong seedlings, and thus gain the initiative for next year's summer grain harvest.
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Ministry of Commerce: Edible agricultural products and means of production prices edged down last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Commerce, last week (August 4 to 10), the market prices of edible agricultural products and the prices of means of production in the distribution sector in 36 large and medium-sized cities nationwide both edged down. Last week, the average price of 18 kinds of vegetables fell 1.2% from the previous week, among which the prices of melon and fruit vegetables such as eggplant, bitter gourd and tomato led the declines, falling 6.3%, 5.3% and 4.2% respectively week on week. Edible oil prices were stable with a slight decline, among which soybean oil and rapeseed oil prices fell 0.7% and 0.1% respectively from the previous week, while peanut oil prices were flat from the previous week. Grain prices were stable with a slight decline, among which rice prices fell 0.2% from the previous week, while flour prices were flat from the previous week. Pork prices rose 0.7% from the previous week, while beef and mutton prices were both flat from the previous week. The average price of aquatic products rose 0.2%, among which the prices of small yellow croaker, large yellow croaker and crucian carp rose 1.6%, 0.5% and 0.4% respectively from the previous week. Poultry and egg prices rose somewhat, among which the price of dressed chicken rose 0.5% from the previous week, and the price of eggs rose 1.6% from the previous week.
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When Is the Best Time to Harvest Walnuts? A Full Guide to Harvest Timing
Harvesting walnuts is actually a method of gathering them once the walnuts are ripe. Picking walnuts usually involves using a bamboo pole to knock the ripe walnuts so the fruit falls to the ground, after which they are collected. So, when is the time to harvest walnuts? 1. When to Harvest Walnuts Generally speaking,
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Key Technical Points and Scientific Free-Range Methods for Raising Native Chickens
A native chicken is a local chicken breed that is free-range raised by farming households themselves and has a relatively long rearing period. Some of the native chickens currently sold in farmers' markets are indeed local breeds, but they are raised in confinement, or their rearing period has been greatly shortened by using artificial compound feed and the like; some
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