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Full efforts to secure winter wheat sown area, laying a solid foundation for next year's summer grain harvest
Cold Dew has passed, and autumn harvest and autumn sowing are in full swing. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop situation scheduling, as of October 8, winter wheat has completed 12% of the plan, 4.6 percentage points slower than the same period last year. Area is the foundation of yield, quality is the guarantee of per-unit yield, and the key is to accelerate sowing progress, expand the suitable sowing area, and improve sowing quality, so as to ensure full emergence in one sowing and safe overwintering of strong seedlings, and thus gain the initiative for next year's summer grain harvest.
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Five Measures to Ensure Food Security: The Food Law Should Be Enacted as Soon as Possible
The "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Food Security (2008-2020)" has been more than half implemented. When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected [relevant areas] last year, he said: food security must rely on ourselves. This year's Central Document No. 1 even puts food security in the first place. Looking at the speeches of city and county party secretaries, it is
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Rural construction may be a way out of economic crisis
On the morning of October 26, renowned expert on agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and director of the Center for Rural Reconstruction at Renmin University of China, Wen Tiejun, delivered a speech at the "Human Thought" conference in Beijing titled "A Century of Rural Reconstruction in China: Gradually Understanding the Objective World through Rural Practice," systematically reviewing China's
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Advancing the integration of the grain industry chain may be achievable
Along with the substantial increase in the scale of grain production and the continuous improvement of the land market, this kind of industry chain integration will gradually spread throughout the crop farming sector in the future, and grain will also increasingly achieve full traceability from farm to table, with grain production becoming a branded activity
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Good farmland is what makes it possible to produce high-quality organic agricultural products
Agricultural modernization is the fundamental direction of agricultural development. Modern agricultural development has three major goals, namely: quantity security, quality security and ecological security. The "three securities" of modern agriculture - quantity, quality and ecology - create the conditions for organic agriculture. For quantity security, the primary task is to ensure
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High-vigor seeds should become an industry standard as soon as possible
Recently, the annual project summary meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture public welfare industry (agriculture) scientific research special project "Research and Demonstration of Key Technologies for the Production of High-Vigor Seeds of Major Crops" was held in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. From China Agricultural University, the Institute of Crop Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
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Two Major Weaknesses in Chinese Agriculture Need Urgent Solutions
The introductory section of the No. 1 Central Document points out some major trend-related issues facing Chinese agriculture in the future. Among them, I think two aspects deserve the most attention: First, domestic agricultural production costs are rising rapidly, and the prices of bulk agricultural products are generally higher than those on the international market. How to innovate agricultural support and protection policies and improve agricultural competitiveness under the "double squeeze" is a major test we must face; Second, China's agricultural resources are scarce, overdeveloped, and increasingly polluted. How to ensure the effective supply of agricultural products and quality safety under hard resource and environmental constraints, and enhance the capacity for sustainable agricultural development, is a major challenge we must meet.
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Cotton prices keep falling; the move toward technology and mechanization should come sooner rather than later
The fireworks of March will soon pass, and the cotton-planting season has arrived. Every year at this time, cotton prices rise, but compared with previous years, the increase this year has been greatly reduced. At present, the average domestic spot price of ginned cotton is 13,330 yuan/ton, down 31.3% from last year and slightly up 0.11% from last
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South floods and north drought possible in April, agricultural disaster prevention guide released
The overall impact of agrometeorological disasters in March was relatively light, with the main disaster being overcast and rainy weather with insufficient sunshine in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. In April, close attention should be paid to and defenses made against the adverse effects of drought in the north on the growth and development of winter wheat, spring plowing and spring sowing, and the effects of continuous rain, waterlogging damage and pests and diseases in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River on rapeseed yield formation
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The agricultural information monitoring and early-warning system should be improved as soon as possible
Reported by our newspaper, journalist Qiao Jinliang: What is an agricultural outlook? What is the significance of releasing the production, consumption, price and trade trends of major agricultural products at the China Agricultural Outlook Conference? Xu Shiwei, Secretary-General of the Market Early-Warning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Information Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
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