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Targeted poverty alleviation cannot remain merely in plans; it must be put into practice.
Nowadays, enthusiasm for targeted poverty alleviation is running high across various places, with poor households being precisely identified and poverty alleviation plans formulated by category. However, does one policy per household equal "targeted"? It still depends on whether that "policy" is grounded in reality and can produce real results. Visiting a poverty-stricken county, the poverty alleviation plan had already
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Apples fed to chickens, fruit growers cut down trees: agricultural products in many places sell at low prices and are hard to sell
Agricultural products in many places are mired in the predicament of low prices and difficulty selling. This year, Chinese cabbage is only two or three mao per jin, not only three or four tenths cheaper than the same period last year, but also not selling at all well. I have been here for a long time, and surprisingly I have not sold a single head of cabbage. Li Chundong said. Shouguang, Shandong agricultural
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Strawberries unsold amid cancer-causing acetochlor exceedance scare; prices fall in many places
Although the claim that strawberries had excessive acetochlor residues was later refuted by authoritative test results and industry experts, the earlier reports that "strawberry acetochlor residues exceeding the limit cause cancer" spread widely and quickly led to unsold strawberries in several major strawberry-producing areas, with prices falling sharply and growers and traders suffering serious losses.
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Nutrient Solution Replaces Chemical Fertilizer: Cutting Back on Fertilizer and Pesticides, Raising Quality and Efficiency
Editor's note: Starting this year, the Ministry of Agriculture officially launched the action to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use, striving to have both the chemical fertilizer utilization rate and the pesticide utilization rate for major crops reach above 40% by 2020, an increase of 7 percentage points and 5 percentage points respectively over 2013, achieving zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on crops.
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Behind the rice controversy, three questions urgently need answers
The "Liangyou 0293" incident that occurred in Bengbu and other places in Anhui has been going on for half a year now, and the final plan for bearing the losses is still under negotiation. No matter which party ultimately bears most of the cost, the questions raised by this lesson in disaster are worth considering by all sides: First, how should responsibility for reduced yields and total crop failure be clarified?
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Significant rainfall in many parts of northern China this week, favorable for wheat jointing
Recently, according to the national agrometeorological report released by the China Meteorological Administration, it is expected that this week most areas of northern China will receive 15-40 mm of rainfall, which is very favorable for soil moisture replenishment and the jointing growth of winter wheat; the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River will see relatively heavy rainfall, and trenches should be cleared and land leveled in time
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Many Places in China Hit by Agricultural Water Crisis, Farming Faces a Major Transformation
Well holes everywhere, yet not one yields water. Water resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and the water bottleneck constraining agricultural development is growing ever more prominent - during this year's severe droughts in many places, this problem has been exposed even more fully. In some areas, because the groundwater level keeps dropping, wells drilled only last year or the year before can no longer pump water to irrigate the cracked fields.
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Bumper Grape Harvest Meets Weak Demand, Sales Under Pressure in Many Parts of the Country
Autumn has arrived, and all across the country it is the good season when grape varieties come onto the market one after another to treat people's taste buds. At this time of year in the past two years, grape growers would smile from ear to ear because of both a bumper harvest and good sales. This year, however, the nationwide grape market has
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Severe Drought Hits Many Parts of China, Grain Production Faces Challenges
According to Xinhua News Agency, as an important national commercial grain base, several major grain-producing counties in Jilin Province are currently suffering severe drought, among which 10 major grain-producing counties including Changling, Nong'an and Gongzhuling have seen the least precipitation since 1951, with some plots even yielding no harvest at all. Chief of the Jilin Provincial Meteorological Observatory
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Why has drought appeared in many places this year? Experts say the drought may continue
In recent times, high temperatures have occurred across most of northern China, further intensifying soil moisture evaporation and causing the drought to spread rapidly across various regions. Meteorological experts believe that in summer, it is fairly common for some parts of China to experience either drought or flooding. At present, the main grain-producing areas have not formed large-scale drought, but grain output in some local areas with more severe drought has been greatly affected
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