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Steady progress in reforming and innovating the central grain reserve system
According to the "Hong Fan" chapter's eight governance principles, food is the first priority of governance. Food security bears on economic development, social stability and national security. The rice bowl of the Chinese people must always be held firmly in our own hands, and that bowl should mainly contain Chinese grain. Under the new circumstances, to implement the new national food security strategy of "taking self-reliance as the mainstay, basing ourselves on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, making appropriate imports and relying on scientific and technological support," we need to vigorously advance the reform and innovation of the central grain reserve system.
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No-till farming yields are low, and the conservation strategy faces a crisis
Compared with conventional tillage systems, no-till often leads to lower output. However, no-till has still shown yield gains in dry regions. No-till farming, a key strategy based on conservation agriculture, can prevent conventional tillage from damaging the soil, yet it may not offer hope for boosting crop yields in most parts of the world.
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Before Confirming Land Transfer Rights, the Distribution System Should Be Readjusted
For the 12th consecutive year, the Central Document No. 1 has once again focused on the "three rural issues" (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers). The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council recently issued the "Several Opinions on Intensifying Reform and Innovation to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization," organized around five parts: modern agriculture, increasing farmers' incomes, new rural construction, rural reform, and
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Improve the quality of cultivated land and stop "farming the fields of our children and grandchildren to grow this season's grain"
With less than 10% of the world's cultivated land, it feeds one fifth of the world's population. This is both a great achievement of Chinese agriculture and a story full of helplessness and hardship. The national condition of many people and little land has kept China's agricultural production on a model of high input and high output, and cultivated land
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How should the crop farming industry proceed this year? The Ministry of Agriculture identifies seven key tasks
Recently, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "2015 Key Tasks for Crop Farming," identifying seven key tasks for crop farming in 2015. Without any slackening, do a good job in grain production. Optimize the planting structure and strive to keep the grain planting area at or above last year's level. Deeply advance grain
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How did the potato take the path to becoming a staple food? It was already introduced to China 400 years ago
In early 2015, the potato, known scientifically as Solanum tuberosum, suddenly became a hot topic. At a seminar titled "Strategy for Developing Potatoes as a Staple Food," officials from the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the coming years, China would launch a strategy to make potatoes a staple food, and the potato would become another staple food after rice, wheat, and corn.
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The community is nice, but the inconvenience of farming has become a new problem
Farmers have mixed views on urbanization: The community is nice, but farming is inconvenient. In recent years, in order to enable farmers to achieve urbanization nearby, some new-type rural communities have been built one after another in rural Henan. Most of these communities have a clean environment, convenient transportation, and complete supporting facilities such as water, electricity, schools,
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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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Rising farming costs: the industry bids farewell to the low-cost era
Eggs are an indispensable agricultural product in our country's vegetable basket project, and in recent years the cost of laying hen farming has risen year after year. The cost of laying hen farming mainly includes feed cost, chick cost, disease prevention and treatment fees, labor cost, water and electricity fees, and depreciation of fixed assets and equipment
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What are the scope and limits of "confirming rights and shares without confirming land"?
Since the 2008 "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning the Promotion of Rural Reform and Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision") proposed doing a good job in rural land rights confirmation, registration, and certification, except for the 2011 No. 1 Document which focused on water conservancy construction, other No. 1
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