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How can agriculture's weak links be shored up? The key lies in adjusting the supply structure
The Central Rural Work Conference held recently explicitly proposed that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we must effectively stretch the "short leg" of agriculture in the synchronous development of the four modernizations, and shore up the "weak link" of rural areas in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. At present, agriculture faces many contradictions and difficulties, with different "symptoms," but the "root cause" lies in structure
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Why is food the most important yet the least valuable
Recently, Huang Yanxin, deputy director of the Department of Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a conference: food is less valuable than mineral water, which is unfair and unreasonable. He suggested that the state should raise the minimum purchase price of food year by year. Food is the most important yet the least valuable, and the reason is simple:
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Northeast japonica rice market remains stable, with the "strong paddy, weak rice" trend prominent
Recently, the Northeast japonica rice market has been operating steadily, with the "strong paddy, weak rice" feature prominent. Unlike the sharp rise in long-grain paddy, against the backdrop of strict moisture and impurity deductions at state reserve warehouses, round-grain paddy has performed relatively steadily, with only low-moisture paddy seeing an increase of about 2-3 fen compared with last month
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Exchanging village officials across locations has many benefits, and these advantages are worth knowing about
Recently, when the author returned to his rural hometown, he inadvertently learned that the village's former Party branch secretary had been sent to a neighboring village to serve as Party branch secretary, while a village committee director from the neighboring village had come to our village to serve as Party branch secretary. According to the villagers, this is a measure of the county's recent implementation of a cross-village official posting mechanism.
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Green prevention and control escorts autumn grain production with full effort
Recently, the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center held the 2014 National Crop Pest Green Prevention and Control On-site Meeting in Jining City, Shandong Province. At the meeting, heads of plant protection systems from various regions visited the green prevention and control demonstration site in Zoucheng City, exchanged views on crop pest green prevention and control
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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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Town-to-city conversion requires accelerated reform of supporting systems
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice on comprehensive pilot projects for new-type urbanization, requiring each province to select eligible cities and towns at different levels as pilot projects to report to the NDRC, especially for towns with a population of over 100,000
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Methods and Key Points for Conducting Village-Level Financial Audits
In recent years, with the increase in various national fiscal funds supporting agriculture (such as subsidies for breeding sows, subsidies for improved seeds, and basic agricultural facility construction projects), all these funds must be implemented at the village level. The use of agricultural support funds and the integrity of village officials are directly related
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Why has drought appeared in many places this year? Experts say the drought may continue
In recent times, high temperatures have occurred across most of northern China, further intensifying soil moisture evaporation and causing the drought to spread rapidly across various regions. Meteorological experts believe that in summer, it is fairly common for some parts of China to experience either drought or flooding. At present, the main grain-producing areas have not formed large-scale drought, but grain output in some local areas with more severe drought has been greatly affected
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