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Ministry of Agriculture reminds: subsidized agricultural machinery should be applied for and purchased as early as possible, and the price can still be negotiated
China.com April 27 news: Ye Zhenqin, Director of the Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, and Liu Hengxin, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Mechanization Management Department, accepted an exclusive interview with the Chinese government website, providing on-site interpretation of overcoming difficulties, seizing farming season, and making every effort to advance spring plowing production, and answering netizens' questions. In
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Grain farmers, rest assured: growing grain will never leave you worse off
We must do everything possible to transform the mode of agricultural development, raise the overall grain production capacity, and protect farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices. Agricultural monitoring shows that domestic grain prices have been basically stable,
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Long-term rural land use rights should be realized as soon as possible
On July 10, 1998, the Rural Land Policy Research Group of the China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) submitted this proposal to the relevant departments and leaders of the Central Committee and the State Council. It coincided with the preparatory period for the Third Plenary Session of the 15th Central Committee of the Party, and immediately attracted great attention from the relevant leaders. When drafting the "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session, they referred to this article and directly adopted the important viewpoint of "granting farmers long-term and guaranteed land use rights."
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The phenomenon of urbanization destroying families should be changed as soon as possible
On February 17, 2015, in his speech at the 2015 Spring Festival reception, President Xi Jinping proposed for the first time the value of attaching importance to the family. He said that the Chinese nation has valued the family and kinship since ancient times. The family is the basic cell of society and the first school of life. Not
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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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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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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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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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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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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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