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Phalaenopsis Exhibition in Nanhai: 3000 New Varieties Gather, 130 Million Yuan in Orders Sets Record
On February 26, the 2025 Guangdong Phalaenopsis New Variety Exhibition held in Nanhai came to a perfect close. This exhibition was the highest-level Phalaenopsis new variety exhibition in China, attracting more than 100 well-known industry enterprises to gather in Nanhai, displaying over 3000 new Phalaenopsis varieties, and inviting consuls from countries related to the "Belt and Road
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South Africa's table grape sector faces a challenging record export season, exports to Russia plunge 21%
Recently, the South African Table Grape Industry (SATI) said this year could be the largest export season in the industry's history. However, affected by multiple factors including domestic and international logistics in South Africa, rising input costs and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, this season is also one of the most challenging production seasons for the industry.
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Giant Ilan Strawberry: Israel Grows a Palm-Sized World's Largest Strawberry, Each Weighing a Record 289 Grams
Israeli farmer Chahi Ariel from the Kadima area grew a giant strawberry in his own strawberry patch in 2021, weighing 289 grams, 5 times the weight of an ordinary strawberry, as if several strawberries had fused together, forming a fan shape, 18 cm long and 4 cm thick
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Prince Charles's business venture failed, the UK's entrepreneurial environment is just too poor
A very, very long time ago, roughly thirty years before the Celestial Empire proposed mass entrepreneurship and innovation for all, Prince Charles started a business. He put together an ecological agriculture project. In 1986, Prince Charles bought a stretch of land that was devastated, with broken walls and ruined buildings, where all one could see was an abandoned church, an empty
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Soybean planting area hits record high, corn loses its appeal
This spring US farmers cut back on corn acreage and pushed soybean plantings to a record high, with overseas demand currently strong, and planting is expected to be dominated by soybeans in the coming years. This marks a reversal in US planting trends. Over the past 10 years, because corn
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Record Agricultural Output, Yet Capital Flees in Droves
As agricultural output hits record levels and the outlook for meat supply improves, US agricultural futures prices have plummeted, and the tide of capital flooding into US agricultural futures has come to an abrupt halt. Data shows that in the first 5 months of this year, capital flowing into the agricultural market far exceeded
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Corn planting area may hit a new record high, seed industry enters a new round of prosperity
Recently, the industry publication Oil World in Hamburg, Germany, stated that because farmers switched to planting corn, China's soybean planting area will decrease by 7% this year, dropping to the lowest level in 22 years, while the corn planting area may increase to a record level. This year, both corn output and imports will
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This year's wheat purchases hit a record high for the same period in history
This year's minimum purchase price policy for wheat ends at the end of September. The latest statistics from the National Food Administration show that as of now, various grain enterprises in 11 major wheat-producing areas including Henan and Shandong have purchased a total of 73.63 million tons of newly produced wheat, an increase of 19.73 million tons year-on-year, setting the highest level for the same period in history.
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Super Rice Breaks 1,000 Kilograms per Mu: Ministry of Agriculture Announces New Record
According to a report by China National Radio's "News and Newspaper Digest," the Ministry of Agriculture announced yesterday (the 10th) that the fourth-phase Chinese super rice led by Academician Yuan Longping has exceeded 1,000 kilograms per mu. The review for renewal of safety certificates for genetically modified insect-resistant rice and high-phytase corn, which expire in August this year,
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Record Soybean Harvest Fails to Reverse Declining Legume Prices
An extra harvest of three to five dou was originally a sight that delighted farmers, but in a year of abundant production it became the straw that bent agricultural prices downward. In the golden autumn season, a spell of rainy weather during the soybean harvest on the other side of the ocean brought a small rebound in domestic and international soybean futures and soybean oil futures.
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