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Overall quality of China's arable land is low, with medium- and low-grade arable land accounting for 70 percent
A recent announcement from China's Ministry of Land and Resources states that, according to the ministry's survey and assessment data on the quality grades and distribution of arable land nationwide, the average quality grade of China's arable land is generally low, with medium- and low-grade arable land accounting for
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Transforming Low- and Medium-Yield Farmland Helps Break Through the Hu Huanyong Line
In 2014, China's grain production achieved a record eleventh consecutive increase, with total output reaching 1214.2 billion jin, an increase of 10.32 billion jin over the previous year. Eleven consecutive years of grain growth is gratifying, but how can grain production maintain its growth momentum in the future? As economic development enters the new normal
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Central government invests nearly 1.5 billion yuan to support water-saving upgrading of medium-sized irrigation districts
In 2015, the central government allocated 1.483 billion yuan in agricultural comprehensive development funds, and approved the construction of 154 key medium-sized irrigation district water-saving supporting upgrading projects. The project funds were mainly used for dredging and lining seepage prevention of main and branch canals, supporting improvement and renovation of canal system structures, as well as
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Medium and late indica rice prices remain low, rice purchasing and sales brisk during the Double Festival
Entering mid-September, the new-season medium and late indica rice in the main rice-producing areas of southern China has begun to be harvested and is gradually coming onto the market in bulk. It is understood that during the growth period of the medium and late indica rice this year (2015), weather conditions were suitable and rainfall was abundant, and the overall quality of the new rice is trending positive. At present (mid-September), the
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How to transform low- and medium-yield fields in arid regions? Zhang Zhengbin on tapping the potential of agricultural production
Zhang Zhengbin, researcher at the Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In recent years, foreign grain export prices have been low, Chinese agricultural product prices are approaching the "ceiling" while the "floor" of production costs keeps rising; the burden of state agricultural subsidies is unbearable
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Ministry of Agriculture: Striving for Winter and Spring Vegetable Self-Sufficiency in Large and Medium-Sized Cities in Northern China by 2020
On October 22, the Ministry of Agriculture held an on-site meeting on facility vegetable production in northern China in Chaoyang, Liaoning. The meeting proposed that, on the basis of coordinating the development of winter facility vegetables in northern cities with the construction of bases for transporting vegetables from the south to the north, efforts should be made to achieve winter and spring vegetable self-sufficiency in large and medium-sized cities in northern China by 2020.
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