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Crop price insurance lets farmers lock in profits without losses
If paying more than 20 yuan per mu in insurance premiums could guarantee the profitability of grain farming, I would certainly be willing to pay. The speaker is Liu Jianlin, a major grain farmer in Xueyan Town, Wujin District, Changzhou City. This year he planted more than 600 mu of rice; half of the plots yielded more than 650 kg of paddy per mu, while the other half could not be harvested in time due to rainy weather and yielded only 450 kg per mu. Moreover, this year the price of paddy was 0.46 yuan per kg lower than last year, so the profitability of grain farming was much worse than in previous years.
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How are new-type professional agricultural machinery operators cultivated? This question is worth asking.
In today's busy "Three Summers" and "Three Autumns" seasons, amid the wheat and rice seas that ripple in the wind, it is hard to see farmers sweating profusely; more often shuttling back and forth are the agricultural machinery operators sitting in the cabs of combine harvesters. At present, China's agricultural production methods have entered an era dominated by mechanized
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Agricultural Products Circulation Brokers Association Establishes E-Commerce Professional Committee
Recently, Yu Peishun, President of the China Agricultural Products Circulation Brokers Association, announced in Beijing the establishment of the Rural E-Commerce Committee of the China Agricultural Products Circulation Brokers Association. It is reported that the Rural E-Commerce Committee of the China Agricultural Products Circulation Brokers Association is a non-profit industry social organization voluntarily formed by domestic enterprises and institutions with independent legal person status, social organizations and individuals focusing on rural e-commerce top-level system design, technical architecture, financial institutions, operations, sales, policy research, etc. It adheres to taking rural e-commerce as its foundation, insists on service first, promotes the association culture of “loving agriculture, dedication, trustworthiness, cooperation, innovation”, safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of members, plays the role of a bridge and link between the government and agricultural products brokers, coordinates relations inside and outside the industry, maintains close exchanges inside and outside the industry, promotes the economic and technological development of the industry, and advances the modernization of agricultural products circulation.
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Garlic yields a net profit of 1500 yuan per mu, higher than corn
Recently, the Price Bureau of Lanling County conducted a survey on the 2015 autumn grain production, procurement and returns. The survey shows that over the past three years, garlic planting returns in Lanling County: each mu produces 2000 jin of garlic and 1200 jin of garlic scapes. The planting cost is 5100 yuan (including family labor and the imputed rent of self-owned land).
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A faculty database management platform for the new-type professional farmer cultivation project
Recently, the national faculty database for new-type professional farmer cultivation was launched and put into operation. Nearly 70 people responsible for farmer education and training from agricultural science and education departments and agricultural broadcasting and television schools in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) gathered in Beijing to discuss the construction of the national faculty database for new-type professional farmer cultivation, boosting the
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Chinese farmers are returning to the essence of a profession
Chinese farmers are returning to the professional essence that the term represents, and increasingly losing the meaning of identity in the traditional context. It can be said that the traditional Chinese concept of "farmer" is changing. From the stratification of scholars, farmers, artisans and merchants a thousand years ago, to the current distinction between
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When farming pays well, the professionalization of farmers follows naturally
The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan mentioned a term: new-type professional farmer. Although it is not a newly coined term, it still reveals the future direction of farmers and agriculture. The school where the author works has no shortage of agriculture-related majors, such as Chinese herbal
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What to Do When Farming Doesn't Pay? Professional Farmers Step In to Crack the Problem
Most farming households in our rural areas now have just seven or eight mu of land, or a dozen mu; each household farms only this little bit of land, and the money earned from one mu of land is about the same as what you'd earn working in the city for a week. Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said, how
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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Rapeseed profits drop sharply: how should autumn-sown rapeseed be planted?
This year's price is even lower than last year's. Planting one mu of rapeseed does not make money, so I do not want to plant it next year. Recently, reporters received reports from several farmers in Jianyang City that this year's rapeseed market price is not high, the market is sluggish, planting benefits are not as good as in previous years, and planting enthusiasm has been damaged.
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