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Crop price insurance lets farmers lock in profits without losses
If paying more than 20 yuan per mu in insurance premiums could guarantee the profitability of grain farming, I would certainly be willing to pay. The speaker is Liu Jianlin, a major grain farmer in Xueyan Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City. This year he planted more than 600 mu of rice; half of the plots yielded more than 650 kg of paddy per mu, while the other half could not be harvested in time due to rainy weather and yielded only 450 kg per mu. Moreover, this year the price of paddy was 0.46 yuan per kg lower than last year, so the profitability of grain farming was much worse than in previous years.
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Garlic yields a net profit of 1500 yuan per mu, higher than corn
Recently, the Price Bureau of Lanling County conducted a survey on the 2015 autumn grain production, procurement and returns. The survey shows that over the past three years, garlic planting returns in Lanling County: each mu produces 2000 jin of garlic and 1200 jin of garlic scapes. The planting cost is 5100 yuan (including family labor and the imputed rent of self-owned land).
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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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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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Rapeseed profits drop sharply: how should autumn-sown rapeseed be planted?
This year's price is even lower than last year's. Planting one mu of rapeseed does not make money, so I do not want to plant it next year. Recently, reporters received reports from several farmers in Jianyang City that this year's rapeseed market price is not high, the market is sluggish, planting benefits are not as good as in previous years, and planting enthusiasm has been damaged.
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Photovoltaic Greenhouses Get a New Look: Technology Creates a New Model for Ecological Agriculture Profits
Today, people can enjoy fresh and delicious off-season fruits and vegetables even in the cold of winter, and greenhouse facilities certainly deserve much of the credit. In many people's understanding, greenhouses should be a product of modern scientific progress. However, as early as more than 2,000 years ago, the ancients were already able to use a
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The profit landscape of the flour industry is shifting - who is driving it from behind the scenes?
At present, with wheat strong and flour weak, humble bran is to a certain extent affecting the operating efficiency of wheat processing enterprises. Since the second half of last year, bran prices have continued to decline, making flour processing enterprises that were already struggling even worse off, and also affecting this year's
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Large-scale farming profits rely entirely on subsidies and rewards, with hidden traps
Does large-scale agriculture necessarily bring economies of scale? In many people's understanding, this is hardly even a question, but the facts are not so. While too small a planting scale certainly makes it hard to earn much profit, too large a planting scale may also yield false profits. So-called false profits
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Exploring ways to resolve the conflict between farmers' interests and capital's profit-seeking
Light Heat rain is like silver, Great Heat rain is like gold. Right at the height of the hottest "two heats" season, Wuchang City in Heilongjiang Province, bordering the Songnen Plain to the north and adjacent to Shulan and Jiaohe to the south, has welcomed a rare stretch of overcast days. The crops greedily drink the rain, and the increasingly heavy ears of grain wrap up a harvest to look forward to
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Edible oil market growth stalls, industry seeks new profit points through diversification
Yihai Kerry, which started out as a major grain and oil enterprise, is advancing into a comprehensive food company. Recently, it added a dairy product sales business in China. In addition, Yihai Kerry stepped up its involvement in condiments earlier this year, further expanding its diversification map. In grain
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