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How to Transform Agriculture's Development Model? A Full Analysis of Direction and Path
Behind the achievement of twelve consecutive increases in summer grain production lies the main thread of China's agriculture closely focusing on stabilizing grain production, increasing incomes, adjusting structure, improving quality, raising efficiency and transforming the development model. Today, grain production no longer focuses only on annual output, but pays more attention to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology; resource utilization
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Ministry of Agriculture designates 107 counties and cities to carry out agricultural product quality and safety creation
On August 4, the Ministry of Agriculture announced the list of 103 national agricultural product quality and safety counties and 4 national agricultural product quality and safety cities as pilot creation units, along with supporting management measures. It is understood that in November 2014, the national on-site meeting on tackling "dining table pollution" deployed and launched the national agricultural product
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August 5, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 5 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 210.47, up 0.47 points from yesterday, of which the "Basket of Vegetables" Products Wholesale Price Index was 213.03, up 0.66 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market pork
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China's corn production hits a record high
Just as the world's attention is focused on severe weather damaging the corn yield potential in the United States and Europe, Chinese farmers are expected to harvest a record corn crop this year. In its latest monthly report released last week, the International Grains Council (IGC) raised China's corn production
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Can farmers benefit if agricultural product supply and demand are kept moderately tight to protect prices?
According to some media reports, at the China Rural Development High-Level Forum that ended on July 31, Zhang Tianzuo of the Department of Industrial Policy and Regulation of the Ministry of Agriculture said that at present the prices of many of China's agricultural products do not fully reflect their value, agricultural costs have risen sharply, and the benefits of planting and breeding
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Comparison of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on August 7, 2015 with Yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 7 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 210.50, down 0.47 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 212.81, down 0.53 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at agricultural products wholesale markets nationwide, pork
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Fertilizer VAT to Be Levied from September 1 as Decided: How Big an Impact on Fertilizer Production and Sales?
The news of resuming the collection of fertilizer VAT, which has attracted widespread attention since last year, will have its answer revealed in the coming days! It is said that all fertilizers will uniformly resume being subject to the tax, and the implementation start date is most likely to be set on September 1, 2015. In particular, there are rumors that the government document on the fertilizer VAT policy is highly likely to be published tomorrow.
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On August 10, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 10 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 211.90, up 1.40 points from last Friday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 214.72, up 1.91 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market
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The Dilemma of Major Grain-Producing Counties: "Others Eat, We Subsidize"
Years of consecutive grain output increases have not dispelled the worries of major grain-producing counties. A recent survey by Economic Information Daily reporters in three major grain-producing counties (cities) in Hunan - Xiangxiang City, Taojiang County and Taoyuan County - found that major grain-producing areas are generally facing difficulties such as fiscal strain, diminishing incentives for grain production, and rapid deterioration of the agricultural ecological environment. Officials in charge of grain production in major grain-producing counties (cities) said the current model of promoting grain production through over-reliance on "administrative coercion" is no longer sustainable, and major grain-producing counties (districts) generally lack internal motivation. The reason some places still keep the "major grain-producing county" label is merely a sense of "honor." If this situation is not changed, grain production could face "big problems" in the coming years.
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China now has over 70,000 agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size nationwide
The 18th China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair will be held from September 6 to 8 in Zhumadian City, Henan Province. Since 1998, the Ministry of Agriculture and Henan Province have jointly held 17 sessions of the fair, with more than 3,700 key investment and construction projects signed, and contract value
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