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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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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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A good time for capital to enter the seed industry has arrived
"Social capital entering the seed industry is entering a good period this year." On October 15, the second investment cooperation roundtable of the Modern Seed Industry Development Fund was held in Beijing, and attending representatives made the above judgment at the meeting. Liao Xiyuan, deputy director of the Seed Management Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at the meeting that currently
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Autumn grain harvest is now a foregone conclusion, with Shandong, Henan and other provinces reporting a steady stream of good news
A large corn field in the ten-thousand-mu demonstration area of Chengxinzhuang Village, Liugu Town, Hua County, Henan Province, where late-harvest technology is being promoted. Experts explain that for corn that is peeled, sun-dried and harvested late, each day's delay in harvest can increase corn yield by 10 kg per mu. Autumn is at its fullest, and across ten thousand miles of farmland, a picture of autumn grain harvest is spread everywhere
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China's agricultural futures varieties have reached 20
Natural risk and market risk are the two major challenges facing agricultural development. In the future, China will take a series of measures to promote the development of agricultural insurance and the agricultural product futures market, so as to enhance the risk-resistance capacity of agricultural development. This was learned by the reporter on the 25th from the
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Cotton target price reform launched, Agricultural Development Bank provides 60 billion yuan to ensure money is ready when cotton arrives
To support the cotton target price reform, this year the Agricultural Development Bank of China proposed for the first time a differentiated strategy for Xinjiang and the inland regions, making Xinjiang the focus of credit support, preparing 60 billion yuan in funds and continuing to add more according to purchasing needs, ensuring purchasing enterprises do not run short. Xinjiang in November
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