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Heirloom seeds passed down through generations, yet over 95% have already disappeared from farmland
More than ten thousand years ago, humans realized they could keep part of the harvested seeds to replant the following year. "Xin Yu": The common people ate meat and drank blood, and clothed themselves in hides and fur; as for Shennong, he thought that crawling insects and running beasts were difficult to raise the people on, so he sought things that could be eaten, tasted the fruits of the hundred plants, and examined sour, bitter, and
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Why mangoes rot before they ripen, and can wrapping a mango in newspaper ripen it and turn it yellow?
Do you like eating mangoes? But the green mangoes you usually buy are not particularly ripe, so do you know how to ripen green mangoes? Would you like to find out, so the mangoes you want to eat ripen sooner without rotting? Why do mangoes rot before they ripen? When mangoes are green
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Orchard Sod Culture Techniques: Planting and Management Essentials
At present, many fruit growers engaged in organic and conventional cultivation have implemented sod culture, and their orchards present a scene of lush green, full of ecological beauty. However, implementing sod culture in orchards may bring quite a few troubles, such as possibly harboring disease vectors, competing with fruit trees for soil
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China's feed demand has already reached 2.5 times its grain demand for human consumption
In recent years, China's per capita grain ration dropped from 207.1 kg in 1986 to 148 kg in 2010, a decrease of 28.5%, but at the same time, per capita consumption of meat, eggs, milk and other foods has been climbing steadily. For more than 30 years, Ren Jizhou, a grassland science expert in China and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering,
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Over 90 percent of the early rice harvest is complete; this year's area is steady with a slight decrease, and per-unit yield is flat
Currently, over 90 percent of the national early rice harvest is complete. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop situation scheduling and experts' field yield measurement analysis, this year's early rice area is steady with a slight decrease, per-unit yield is flat with a slight increase, most main producing areas show a flat production trend, and the national total early rice output is expected to achieve another bumper harvest. This year's early rice production has been stable
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Drought relief and disaster reduction require forward-looking vision; only by planning ahead can we respond with composure
Recently, the rapidly spreading drought is deeply worrying. At present, which is a critical period for the growth of autumn grain, carrying out orderly and effective drought relief and disaster reduction appears urgent and important. On the whole, two weak links cannot be ignored: agricultural modernization remains the weak link of the "new four modernizations"; farmland water conservancy infrastructure
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Drought in Northeast China Continues to Spread, Some Farmland in Jilin Has Lost All Crops
Currently, this is a critical period for the formation of autumn grain yields in Northeast China, and the continuously developing drought is very unfavorable to crop production and development. Fighting the drought to protect autumn grain brooks no delay. The reporter learned from the video conference on drought relief and autumn grain protection in Northeast China recently held by the Ministry of Agriculture: At present, the
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New corn is not far from hitting the market, wheat hard to make a splash as feed
The listing of new-season corn is just around the corner, and corn prices are beginning to show signs of downward pressure, the proportion of wheat used as feed substitute will further decrease in the future, and energy feed is likely to return to the "corn-dominant" era. Domestic corn prices remain firm, with supply tight in most regions
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Quality Fruit Goes Global, Spreading Fragrance Across the World
In golden autumn Xinjiang, melons and fruits are fragrant. On September 3, the Second China Quality Fruit Promotion Event of the China-Eurasia Expo, hosted by the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Agriculture, was held at the Urumqi International Convention and Exhibition Center. In early autumn, Urumqi had clear skies and sparse white clouds. At the exhibition
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What are the four major manifestations of the booming development of rural e-commerce?
Through reading "The 'New Three Rural Issues' and E-Commerce," it can be seen that rural e-commerce has shown an explosive trend since 2009. By 2013, on the Taobao and Tmall platforms alone, parcels sent from county areas reached about 1.4 billion pieces. Regarding the booming development of rural e-commerce, all parties have expressed
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