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Corn Becomes the Focus of Structural Adjustment: A Third of the Nation's Corn Acreage May Be Converted from Grain to Forage
In Shandong, a major grain-planting province, more than 80% of grain corn is used as livestock feed, while the nation's feed grain still depends on imports of 100 million tonnes per year. Under the food security strategy, grain used for livestock feed has been brought into policy consideration. In a recent public
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National Agricultural Product Market System Plan Released, About 100 Backbone Markets to Be Built
Yesterday, the website of the Ministry of Commerce published an article stating that the Ministry of Commerce and 10 other departments recently jointly issued the "National Agricultural Product Market System Development Plan", proposing that a agricultural product market system with Chinese characteristics will be initially established by 2020. The plan is based on China's various regions' economic and social conditions, transportation locations,
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A batch of national public-benefit agricultural product wholesale markets will be planned and built across China
Ten departments including the Ministry of Commerce jointly issue the national agricultural product market system development plan. To scientifically plan the layout of the agricultural product circulation network and accelerate the building of an agricultural product market system compatible with new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, recently, the Ministry of Commerce
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How to farm on desert land? Agriculture in sandy areas is flourishing
Currently, China's agricultural production and development is subject to hard constraints such as the reduction of arable land resources and the limited carrying capacity of environmental resources. China's existing desertified area is 1.73 million mu, and there is great potential to expand agricultural production space in arid desert areas. However, the ecology of sandy areas is fragile, and it is necessary to find a balance between ecological environmental protection and agricultural development, and to develop farmland moderately on the premise of protecting the ecological environment.
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Vegetable planting area slightly decreased at the end of July, supply guaranteed in August
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's Vegetable Production Information Network, vegetable supply in July decreased both year-on-year and month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose year-on-year and remained flat month-on-month. In August, the overall vegetable supply is expected to be guaranteed, with farm-gate wholesale prices trending upward steadily. In July, vegetable supply entered the summer slack season
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Why did early rice production decline? Statistics Bureau: Drought and lower enthusiasm for planting
China News Service, August 21 - According to national early rice production data released today by the National Bureau of Statistics, China's early rice output in 2015 was 33.691 million tons, a decrease of 320,000 tons from 2014, down 0.9%. Hou Rui, a senior statistician of the Rural Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, said in an interpretation that the early rice sown area
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What Are the Prospects for the Chinese Medicinal Herb Planting Industry? Analysis of the Current Situation and Trends
What are the prospects for the Chinese medicinal herb planting industry? Every grower, whether large-scale or small-scale, should carefully grasp the planting characteristics of medicinal plants from the perspective of plant cultivation science, including varieties, water and fertilizer, meteorology and geography, market forecasting, labor and management, etc. Various domestic efforts to improve
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Why must rural village planning take a long-term perspective?
To accelerate the building of a new countryside, in recent years various regions have formulated many proactive and effective policies tailored to local conditions, invested a great deal of manpower, material and financial resources, and achieved tremendous results. But it cannot be denied that at present the building of a new countryside in some areas is still progressing slowly, and to a certain extent there exist phenomena of formalism and scattered disorder.
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Agricultural water crisis remains unsolved, and a comprehensive plan is still lacking
Groundwater over-extracted for many years has left the North China Plain, one of China's main grain-producing regions, facing a water shortage crisis. On one hand, there is an increasingly scarce and precious water source; on the other hand, there is the real pressure of safeguarding the Chinese people's "grain bag" security. As a major water consumer, how should agriculture
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China's fresh-eating corn planting area reaches 12 million mu
Fresh-eating corn has high economic returns, and many provinces and cities across the country are vigorously promoting fresh-eating corn as a cash crop, with huge market development potential. On July 6, the 2015 National Fresh-eating Corn Academic Symposium and Southern Fresh-eating Corn Conference was held at the Ezhou Research Base of Hubei Provincial Seed Group.
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