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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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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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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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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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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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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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PLA pork rations sold online; Customs Administration investigates, finds no record of imports from China
Someone posted on Facebook sharing "tasting notes and photos of PLA combat ration packs," along with a sales page on an online store. At a time when authorities are on high alert to block African swine fever, the Ministry of Finance Customs Administration immediately investigated the source of the rations. After verification by the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, what was shared
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When do corals spawn? First record on the east coast, Taitung corals still healthy
Every year around the 23rd day of the 3rd lunar month, the birthday of Mazu, is the season when corals in the waters around Taiwan spawn en masse. On the 26th (the 22nd day of the 3rd lunar month), the Coral Reef Laboratory of the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, recorded coral spawning at the Jihui coast in Taitung, and found that 8 species of coral, including Acropora, Stylophora, Pectinia, Lobophyllia, Merulina, Symphyllia, Hydnophora and Porites, were releasing sperm and egg bundles in large numbers.
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What does the idiom "qiong zhu nan shu" (too many crimes to record) mean?
Qiong zhu nan shu means that even if all the bamboo is used up, it still cannot be written out completely; it is a metaphor for facts (mostly crimes) being so numerous that it is hard to finish describing them. It comes from "Lu Shi Chun Qiu": "The things produced by a chaotic state, even using all the bamboo of Jing and Yue, still cannot be written down." and "Han Shu - Gong Sunhe Zhuan": "The bamboo of the southern mountains is not enough to receive my words, and the wood of the Xie Valley is not enough to make my instruments."
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What Animal Is the Pixiu? A Detailed Explanation of the Pixiu's Real Prototype
The Pixiu is a fierce auspicious beast recorded in ancient Chinese books and folk myths and legends, and is considered a auspicious creature that turns misfortune into good fortune. Legend has it that in addition to the effects of boosting fortune and warding off evil, the Pixiu also has functions such as guarding the home, resolving the Tai Sui, and promoting marriage. Chinese tradition includes decorating and wearing
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