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Grain prices fall and large-scale grain growers can only break even - do farmers still want to grow grain?
Grain prices have fallen, but do farmers still want to grow grain? A survey from Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province. Large-scale grain growers can only break even, and enthusiasm for land transfer may be affected. On December 9, the Major Snow solar term had already passed, and northern Heilongjiang was freezing cold. A heavy snowfall from a few days earlier still lay thick in the fields, with stray bits of crop straw showing on top.
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MOHURD Rural Sewage Treatment Limited to Only 3 State-Owned Enterprises: A 40.8 Billion Yuan Rural Water Market
After finally getting a feast laid out, they found that they had no share of it. On November 11, the Department of Village and Town Construction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued the "Letter on Doing a Good Job in Matching Projects for Rural Domestic Sewage Treatment Demonstration Counties" [Jian Cun Shui Han (2015) No. 106], which stated
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Ding Xilu: Farmers have prospects in growing grain, and only then can grain production have good momentum
Core viewpoint: Ding Xilu, a netizen of China Economic Net, believes that these concrete measures not only protect farmers' grain-growing interests from being harmed and prevent their enthusiasm from declining, but also help safeguard national food security. Only by truly implementing them in accordance with national policies and putting all preferential agricultural policies into practice can farmers be helped to increase their incomes.
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E-commerce going to the countryside needs deep and meticulous cultivation to yield results
On November 9, the General Office of the State Council published the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Accelerated Development of Rural E-commerce", comprehensively deploying and guiding the healthy and rapid development of rural e-commerce. The "Opinions" proposed that by 2020, a unified, open, orderly competitive, green and environmentally friendly rural e-commerce market system should be initially established.
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13th Five-Year Plan Sets Green Development Tone: Circular Economy Becomes the Only Way for Green Urbanization
On November 3, Premier Li Keqiang said in his speech at the closing ceremony of the China-France Forum on Climate and Green Economy that taking the path of green development is an inevitable requirement for transforming the development model and adjusting the economic structure. China will follow the arrangements of the just-concluded Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee, including following
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Only when farmers' rights are fully in place can the dormant vitality of the countryside be awakened
The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council recently issued the "Comprehensive Implementation Plan for Deepening Rural Reform." The plan requires that at present and for some time to come, deepening rural reform should focus on five major areas, including the rural collective property rights system. Experts point out that clearly defined property rights
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Agricultural product e-commerce must focus not only on marketing but even more on quality
At present, some agricultural product e-commerce businesses have fallen into the trap of emphasizing marketing while neglecting quality. Agricultural product e-commerce should not only rely on the internet to disrupt traditional sales channels, but also, through integration with the production stage, provide consumers with genuine goods. "Foodie" friends often shop online
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Food waste is not only on the dining table; waste outside the dining table also cannot be ignored
When it comes to food waste, people's attention tends to focus on the visible waste at the dining table, yet they rarely pay attention to losses in the various stages after the harvest. Grain missed and not picked up by harvesters, fire and mold during storage, spillage during circulation and handling, excessive polishing during processing... According to statistics, in the post-production stages alone,
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New food security goals can only be achieved with the rule of law safeguarding the security of the grain basket
Dialogue motivation October 16, 2015 is the 35th World Food Day, and the week it falls in is the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week. Food security has always been an overall major strategic issue concerning our country's national economic development, social harmony and stability, and national security and self-reliance. Our country
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Only when the reserve grain is well managed can the people's rice bowl be held steady
"Those who store up grain hold the great destiny of the realm," and establishing the central grain reserve system is a grand strategy for ensuring our country's food security. In recent years, the central government has defined the new national food security strategy of "relying mainly on ourselves, basing ourselves on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and technological support"
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