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What are the technical paths for reducing chemical fertilizer use and increasing its efficiency?
On March 17 this year, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed striving to achieve zero growth in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides on major crops by 2020. The key to achieving this goal is to grasp well the "precision, adjustment, improvement and substitution": advancing precision fertilization, adjusting the structure of chemical fertilizer application, improving fertilization methods
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Why does reducing fertilizer use and increasing efficiency in agriculture not affect food security?
Chemical fertilizers have made an indelible contribution to China's consecutive years of agricultural harvests, but as chemical fertilizer use in China has increased, its efficiency in boosting crop yields has been declining, and it has even brought impacts on the ecological environment. In fact, reducing fertilizer use, especially for cash crops such as vegetables and fruits,
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Technical Guidance on Reducing Losses in Mechanized Wheat Harvesting was issued by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015
This technical guidance applies to wheat harvesting operations using full-feed combine harvesters. Within a given area, wheat varieties and planting patterns should be as uniform and consistent as possible, and crop and field conditions should be suitable for mechanized harvesting. Operators should inspect and adjust the machinery in advance
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Post-harvest grain waste is severe, and reducing grain loss cannot be ignored
When it comes to grain waste, people's attention mostly focuses on the visible waste at the dining table and rarely pays attention to losses in the various links after grain production. In the post-production links alone, China loses more than 70 billion jin of grain a year, close to 6% of China's total grain output, equivalent to the annual grain output of
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State encourages farmers to use scientific grain storage bins, reducing grain storage losses every year
Recently, experts from the Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the State Administration of Grain explained knowledge about grain production and grain saving and loss reduction to Lu Tingzhan (center), a large-scale grower at the Tingyuan Family Farm in Fugou County, Henan Province. During the 25th National Grain Love and Grain Saving Publicity Week
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Reducing Corn Planting Area Becomes Agricultural Adjustment Priority
Pan Wenbo, deputy director of the Department of Crop Production Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, recently told Economic Observer Online that the overall approach for a new round of agricultural adjustment led by the Ministry of Agriculture has been formed. In the next step, in accordance with the food security strategy of "storing grain in the land" and "storing grain in technology," the government will adhere to
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