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Organic agriculture cannot rely on producers alone
In Jiangjiazhuang Village, Pingyi County, Shandong Province, Jiang Gaoming, a researcher at the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, rented a 20-mu farm, growing corn, soybeans and wheat, and also raised more than 100 head of cattle. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides, and no agricultural film, additives or herbicides. After three years of cultivation,
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Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests: increasing yields through fertilizer worsens arable land quality
Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests. The National Bureau of Statistics website announced on July 12 that in 2013, the national total summer grain output reached 131.89 million tons, an increase of 1.96 million tons over 2012, up 1.5%; of which winter wheat output was 115.67 million tons, an increase of 1.48 million tons over the previous year, up 1.3%. 201
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Gaza conflict severely damages agriculture, FAO says people's livelihoods affected
China News Service, August 15 (Xinhua) - According to the United Nations website, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned on August 14 that the conflict in the Gaza Strip has not only caused direct losses to local agriculture, livestock and fishery production, but will also have a long-term impact on the livelihoods of the people in Gaza. The FAO
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International grain prices keep falling, and expanded grain imports are purely a market behavior
China's grain imports grew considerably this year. Data released by the General Administration of Customs show that this year grain imports, led by wheat, accelerated sharply, with grain imports surging 80.7% year on year in the first seven months. This has aroused concerns at home and abroad about China's food security. In response, experts
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Water-saving irrigation proves effective, calmly resolving the challenge of severe drought
In the face of a severe drought rarely seen in decades, crops in some areas of Henan and Liaoning provinces suffered serious damage, highlighting shortcomings in water conservancy facilities (see "In a Year of Severe Drought, a Test for Farmland Water Conservancy" in this section, August 19), but must a severe drought inevitably bring agricultural disaster? Not necessarily. On the road to modern ag
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Why is it hard for stockpiling to improve the competitiveness of agricultural products? Dang Guoying explains
Setting intervention prices for agricultural products according to farmer income targets may weaken the pressure of market competition and bring marginal land with backward productivity into cultivation. According to media reports, a reporter learned from authoritative sources that the research for the 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture is considering abolishing the temporary stockpiling policy,
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What keeps agriculture from losing production when disaster strikes? Technical support and institutional safeguards
Hua County is the top grain-producing county in Henan Province and the top wheat county in China, long known as the "granary of northern Henan." Hua County has always kept firmly in mind its political responsibility to safeguard national food security, taking stabilizing grain production and increasing income as its core task and vigorously advancing modern agricultural development. In 2014, Hua County's summer grain production
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Li Keqiang: Advancing agricultural modernization on the basis of family farming
Dear Director-General Graziano, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends: It gives me great pleasure to come to the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in this golden autumn season to attend the events of the 34th World Food Day. Just now, as soon as I entered the FAO building, I saw on the wall of the lobby on the first floor
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How can China achieve basic grain self-sufficiency? Li Keqiang: Insist on relying on domestic production
Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council visited the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on October 15 and delivered a speech. This is the first visit by a Chinese premier to the organization's headquarters since its founding 69 years ago. Li Keqiang said that as China's urbanization accelerates, it is expected that by 2020, 200 million people will have settled in cities and towns from rural areas or found nearby employment in the central and western regions, which requires China to innovate its agricultural production methods, implement innovation based on family-run agriculture, and promote innovation in various forms of agricultural operation. At the same time, it is necessary to accelerate the transfer of rural land management rights and encourage farmers' association and cooperation.
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Agricultural product processing industry relies on scientific and technological innovation to drive development and seize the commanding heights of science and technology
Website news: On October 15, jointly hosted by the Agricultural Product Processing Bureau (Township and Village Enterprise Bureau) of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Agriculture, and organized by the Institute of Agricultural Product Processing of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the national agricultural product processing science
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