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The 288 border farms of the agricultural reclamation system have become a stabilizer for securing borders and stabilizing Xinjiang in our country
China.com December 7 news On December 7, Yang Shaopin, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a press conference that agricultural reclamation is a stabilizer for securing borders and stabilizing Xinjiang. Since its creation, agricultural reclamation has shouldered the unique role of building the border regions, defending the national territory, promoting ethnic unity, and safeguarding unification. At present, agricultural
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Ministry of Agriculture: 288 border farms under the agricultural reclamation system have become an important force for border security
China News Service, December 7 - Yang Shaopin, a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, said today that at present, the agricultural reclamation system has a total of 288 border farms, which have become an important barrier for the state in safeguarding border security, prospering the border economy, promoting ethnic unity, and countering terrorism, combating drugs, and preventing the intrusion of foreign animal diseases and invasive
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Genetically modified grain seeds have never been approved for commercial cultivation within China's borders
(Two Sessions Highlights) Wei Chao'an: China has never approved commercial cultivation of genetically modified grain seeds within its borders. Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 10 (dispatch) - Vice Minister of Agriculture Wei Chao'an said in an interview with reporters on the 10th that the Ministry of Agriculture has never approved the commercial cultivation of any genetically modified grain seed
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Nantong City, Jiangsu, Solidly Advances the Introduction of New Varieties
In order to accelerate the renewal rate of new varieties and serve Nantong's agricultural production, the Nantong City Seed Management Station directly introduced a record number of new crop varieties in 2015. In 2015, the Nantong City Seed Management Station organized the introduction of 125 crop varieties of various types (96 last year), and organized intermediate trials at 39 (36 last year) site-times; among these, for spring and summer sown crops - rice, corn, cotton, watermelon, spring soybean, and summer soybean - there were 41 new varieties and 24 trial site-times; for autumn sown barley and wheat there were 14 varieties and 7 trial site-times, and for rapeseed there were 70 varieties and 8 trial site-times.
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Orders drop by more than 80%: a farmer in Urumqi has 2,300 barred rock chickens
Yaxin Net News (Reporter Guo Ling) The order was supposed to be 100 barred rock chickens a day, but the daily purchase volume dropped by more than 80%, and the sale of the remaining 2,300 barred rock chickens has become the biggest worry for Li Gui and his wife. Li Gui, 40, lives in Team 7, Bajiahu Village, Dabancheng District, Urumqi, and has raised barred rock chickens for 5 years
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Dingxi's Longxi County Completes Supervision and Inspection of Production and Operations of Key Seed Enterprises
In order to further rectify and standardize the production and operation order of traditional Chinese medicinal herb and potato seeds in our county, effectively strengthen seed market supervision and management, severely crack down on illegal acts such as the production and sale of fake and inferior seeds, and effectively protect farmers' interests, according to the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry's "Notice on Promoting Random Inspections and Standardizing Interim and Post-Event Supervision in the Follow-Up Supervision of Agricultural Administrative Licensing Matters" ⟦4 <p> <p> In order to further rectify and standardize the production and operation order of traditional Chinese medicinal herb and potato seeds in our county, effectively strengthen seed market supervision and management, severely crack down on illegal acts such as the production and sale of fake and inferior seeds, and effectively protect farmers' interests, according to the requirements of the Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry document "Notice on Promoting Random Inspections and Standardizing Interim and Post-Event Supervision in the Follow-Up Supervision of Agricultural Administrative Licensing Matters" (Gan Nong Mu Fa [2015] No. 295), the Longxi County Seed Management Station conscientiously carried out supervision and inspection work on key seed production and operation enterprises throughout the county, ensuring the stability of the seed market order in our county.</p> <p> In mid-December, our station specially dispatched personnel to conduct a comprehensive verification of more than 10 seed production and operation enterprises, including Gansu Yuxin, Longxi Likang, and Jifeng Seed Industry. The key verification contents included: first, whether all qualifications and licenses are complete; second, whether seed production and operation files have been established in accordance with regulations; third, the standardization and completeness of the recorded file contents and whether the seeds produced and sold match the file records; fourth, whether seed production bases and business premises are standardized; fifth, whether there are seed quality inspection laboratories, instruments and equipment, and testing records.</p> <p> Against these verification contents, a list of problems was compiled for seed production enterprises, and on-site guidance was provided, requiring them to rectify the issues as soon as possible, thus laying the foundation for future follow-up supervision of agricultural administrative licensing. In the future, our station will be committed to urging and guiding traditional Chinese medicinal herb seed production and operation enterprises to establish a sound seed distribution system, formulate labels, strictly supervise the procurement channels of traditional Chinese medicinal herb seeds, guide enterprises to develop in groups, and formulate industry quality standards as soon as possible. At the same time, enterprises are required to strengthen their efforts in self-inspection and self-checking of seed quality.</p></p>
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Grain Smuggling Trends Shift Toward the Southwest Land Border
Reporters recently visiting the border areas of Guangxi found that since last year, as customs and other relevant departments have stepped up enforcement, smuggling along the Guangxi-Vietnam border has been effectively curbed. Among the smuggling cases investigated and handled, grain smuggling cases, mainly involving rice, have clearly
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Future food may come from high-tech agriculture
To feed the 7 billion people on Earth, we have already cultivated 40% of the planet's land, and by 2050 the world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion. Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that to avoid widespread malnutrition, food production needs to increase by 70%. But there is now little
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Autumn grain purchase and storage carried out effectively, in an orderly and vigorous manner; the Ministry of Finance makes arrangements
The Ministry of Finance recently released a statement saying that, as the autumn grain purchase in Northeast China is about to be fully launched, the Ministry of Finance will join with relevant departments to further improve relevant policy measures and ensure that autumn grain purchase and storage is carried out effectively, in an orderly and vigorous manner. Recently, Vice Minister of Finance Liu Kun traveled to Heilon
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The citizenization of farmers must be advanced steadily; never try to help the seedlings grow by pulling them up.
To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following: <p><P> To advance the building of a new type of urbanization, the central government proposed further advancing reform of the household registration system and advancing in an orderly manner the citizenization of the agricultural population that has moved to cities. However, in recent years the author found in Xiangyang City in northwestern Hubei that although farmers yearn for urban life, most of them do not have a strong willingness to completely "leave farming," and many hover in an amphibious state of "both city and countryside, both worker and farmer." All localities should take account of actual conditions, carefully analyze the obstacles to farmer citizenization, respect farmers' wishes, avoid pulling up seedlings to help them grow, and refrain from forcibly pushing it forward by administrative means. The reason "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion is difficult to make attractive to many farmers lies in the following:</P><P> First, there are many worries about the future: the elasticity of urban-rural amphibiousness is great. The vast majority of migrant workers who enter cities lack technology and skills, cannot compete for good jobs, earn little throughout the year, feel uncertain about life in the city, and fear that after being laid off they will return to the countryside with no land to farm. Farmers worry most that after "agricultural to non-agricultural" conversion they will lose contracted land and homestead land. Many young and middle-aged people choose urban-rural amphibiousness, retreating to the countryside when going out is difficult and going out to seek opportunities whenever possible. Farmers say that although farming does not bring much income, at least there is food to eat and a house to live in, which is at least a form of security. The city may be good, but without a job one cannot live there.</P><P> Second, real pressure is great: the threshold for settling down in the city is high. In 2014, the average monthly income of migrant workers in the cities and counties of Xiangyang was about 2,000 yuan, and those with monthly wage income exceeding 3,000 yuan accounted for about 15 percent, while in the same period the average sales price of commercial housing in the cities and counties was 3,800 yuan per sq m. Commercial housing prices continued to rise, urban village redevelopment led to a reduction in rental housing supply, and rental housing rents also rose by 20% to 30%. Migrant workers find it difficult to rely on wage income to support a family in the city, pay for their children's schooling, let alone buy a house. A 26-year-old young man surnamed Huang from Wuzhen in Nanzhang County knows how to install water and electricity, so finding work is not difficult, but he can save only 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a year. At this income level, even if he neither ate nor drank, buying an apartment would take one or two decades. Among the several young migrant workers the author surveyed, when buying a house in the city was mentioned, their first reaction was "I wouldn't even dare to think about it." But they have eager expectations about buying a house; in their view, without a house they cannot put down roots in the city. Most of the new generation of migrant workers have a certain amount of education and skills. Unlike their parents' generation, they have a stronger willingness to stay in the city and more employment choices, but buying a house is often a high threshold they cannot cross.</P><P> Third, the imprint of previous experience is deep: "washing one's feet" and entering the city is full of setbacks. From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, the policy of "selling household registration" was implemented successively in the cities and counties of Xiangyang. A farmer could convert from agricultural to non-agricultural status by spending 5,000 to 10,000 yuan, and those of working age could even be recruited into factories, which led many people to empty their family savings or even borrow money everywhere to "buy household registration." But within a few years, many people were laid off and unemployed before they had earned back the money they spent on buying household registration, and had no choice but to take a "non-agricultural household registration" paper back to the countryside to farm or go out to work. This situation is still fresh in many farmers' memories. Many farmers say, we have contracted land and self-built houses, and can also enjoy the new rural cooperative medical care and the new social security. Now rural water and electricity supply is normal, transportation conditions have improved, housing standards have risen, the living environment is good, and with more and more national beneficial policies for farmers, rural household registration is also very "precious."</P><P> Farmer citizenization involves too many issues and cannot be achieved overnight. Its implementation requires a fairly long process; haste makes waste. Before farmers can obtain a higher level of employment and social security, the process of farmer citizenization cannot be fast. This requires the government to do careful and meticulous work in theoretical argumentation, planning guidance, institutional improvement, and public opinion guidance, and even more requires the government to gradually eliminate farmers' distant worries and immediate anxieties in the process of farmer citizenization, so that farmer citizenization comes about naturally, and it must never transcend reality by using administrative force to pull up seedlings to help them grow.</P></p>
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