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Corn prices have already entered a long, drawn-out bear market, and the downward trend is unlikely to reverse in the short term
Since June, domestic corn futures prices have shown an accelerating downward momentum, and the monthly chart of the corn main 1601 contract even posted 6 consecutive declines, showing that corn prices already have bear market characteristics. Under the heavy pressures of adjustment to the stockpiling policy, massive inventory buildup, the new-season corn coming to market, and sluggish demand,
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What is the cooperative form with farmers as the main body? Read this article to understand
In today's farmers' cooperative organizations, apart from a few villages like Huaxi and Nanjie that still follow the collective economy path, there also exists a form of farmer-initiated cooperation. This cooperation still takes land contracting as the main body, that is, the land is still managed by individuals, only
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China's dairy industry has entered a critical period of life and death
The "2015 Fourth China International Agricultural Business Summit Forum" was held in Beijing on May 17. Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said in his speech that domestic agricultural product prices have now comprehensively approached, and even exceeded, international agricultural product prices. Many
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China's sericulture industry transformation urgently needs to break free from the "single thread"
For the sustainable development of the sericulture industry, it is urgent to achieve a leap from the traditional single-industry development model of one cocoon and one thread to a diversified development model of one mulberry field and a series of resources through comprehensive resource utilization. This is what the reporter recently learned from the national on-site meeting on comprehensive utilization of sericulture resources held in Yizhou, Guangxi.
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Are Pesticide Residue Standards Safe? Read This One Article to Understand
Interviewees: Gu Baogen, Deputy Director of the Center for Agri-Food Quality and Safety, Ministry of Agriculture; Liu Xingang, Researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; Wang Yongjiang, Director of the Information Station, Yongqing County Agriculture Bureau, Hebei; Zhang Jianyan, vegetable farmer of Beichakou Village, Yongqing Town, Yongqing County, Hebei. Moderator: Reporter of this newspaper.
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As May Day approaches, are farmers ready for travel?
Farmer tourism is a new force in the tourism industry, but neither farmers nor the providers of tourism products are fully prepared. We must recognize both the real need of farmers for tourism and leisure, and the enormous boost that farmer tourism gives to the economy, so that together we can do a good job of the
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Why are cotton farmers abandoning cotton? Some plots have been converted to growing trees
Right now is precisely the season for raising cotton seedlings, but, affected by the decline in cotton purchase prices, the enthusiasm of cotton farmers for planting cotton in some of the main cotton-producing areas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has generally declined, quite a few cotton fields have been converted to other crops or left fallow, and in some fields trees have even been planted.
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Investigation into the hollowing out of rural reading rooms: no books borrowed in 3 years
As a project benefiting the people that enriches farmers' spiritual and cultural life, in recent years rural reading rooms have reached thousands of villages and towns and have been welcomed by farmers. As of now, China has built more than 600,000 rural reading rooms, with cumulative central government funding exceeding 20 billion yuan. However, report
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Winter Wheat Welcomes Spring Rain, Bumper Harvests Anticipated in Many Areas
Recently, many areas in northern China have received widespread spring rain, and the domestic winter wheat crop is growing remarkably well. The rainfall has largely alleviated the adverse effects of earlier drought weather on winter wheat growth, and market observers expect China to usher in another bumper wheat year. Since April, most parts of the country
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Early Rice Seedling Raising Nearly 80% Complete, Centralized Seedling Raising Steadily Expanding
Since late February, the South China and Jiangnan regions of China have successively entered the early rice seedling raising and transplanting period from south to north. According to the agricultural situation monitoring of the Ministry of Agriculture, the intended planting area of early rice this year is expected to be over 87 million mu, an increase of over 300,000 mu compared with the previous year. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture conducted a monitoring and analysis of early rice production.
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