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Chinese farmers are returning to the essence of a profession
Chinese farmers are returning to the professional essence that the term represents, and increasingly losing the meaning of identity in the traditional context. It can be said that the traditional Chinese concept of "farmer" is changing. From the stratification of scholars, farmers, artisans and merchants a thousand years ago, to the current distinction between
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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland receives strong support from the Ministry of Finance
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland", in 2015 the state arranged a new round of tasks for returning farmland to forest and grassland of 10 million mu, mainly concentrated in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) including Hebei and Inner Mongolia, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, of which: 9.4 million mu to forest
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With apple-growing skills, returning home to grow apples beats a 10,000-yuan monthly salary
Li Qingjun often spends time with fruit growers, discussing apple-growing knowledge. Photo provided by the interviewee. Our reporter Li Jing. He once worked at a listed company in Shenzhen, engaged in securities and investment and financing work, with a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan. This white-collar worker whom everyone envied chose to return
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Edible Mushrooms Grown in Idle Tobacco Curing Barns Bring Good Returns to Tobacco Farmers in Shanghang, Fujian
Shanghang County in Fujian Province is one of the key tobacco-producing counties in China, with over a thousand intensive tobacco curing barns and several thousand curing rooms; however, the curing period lasts only four months from May to August, leaving the remaining eight months idle with low utilisation rates. To improve the utilisation rate of the curing barns and realise the benefits of construction investment, the Sanfeng Tobacco Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Lupeng She Ethnic Township, Shanghang County began trials in the autumn and winter of 2014, growing wood ear mushrooms and oyster mushrooms in the idle intensive curing barns, achieving initial success and good returns.
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How are grain prices formed? Chen Xiwen: They should be close to the market while also taking farmers' returns into account
The formation of grain prices should stay close to the market while also taking into account farmers' lawful returns. This is a very important principle for the future formation of China's grain prices. At a press conference held today by the State Council Information Office, the Central Rural Work Leading Group
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Why is the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China less than 50%?
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said on the 23rd that due to the massive use of chemical fertilizers, insufficient rural environmental protection investment and other factors, composting is becoming increasingly rare in rural areas, and the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China is now below 50%. Zhang Taolin made the remarks at the 2015 International Composting Conference
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Domestic wheat market set to return to a policy-driven market, industry views interpreted
Currently, less than one month remains until the end of the wheat minimum purchase price policy in the main producing areas. With the market purchase price of new wheat below the minimum purchase price, the volume of wheat purchased under the minimum purchase price policy will still increase steadily, and the quantity of low-priced grain available for circulation will further decrease. Later, as
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Returning-home makers must not only be able to come back, but also be able to stay
Recently, under the upsurge of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, many maker groups made up of university graduates, migrant workers, and rural educated youth have returned home to start businesses. These returning-home makers have an innovative awareness and entrepreneurial enthusiasm, but in the process of starting businesses they have also encountered
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Green agriculture does not mean returning to traditional farming
Driven by modern science and technology, China's agricultural output growth has outpaced population growth, successfully achieving the goal of "producing more." However, under the output-oriented development model, the long-term continuous increase in agricultural production has also come at a heavy cost to resources and the environment. Fertilizers,
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A long-term mechanism for distributing the value-added returns from rural land needs to be established more quickly
The Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly stated that a mechanism for distributing land value-added returns that takes into account the state, the collective and the individual should be established, and individual returns should be reasonably increased. The Central Rural Work Conference also stressed that farmers' rights to the possession, use, returns and transfer of contracted land, as well as the rights to mortgage and guarantee their contracted management rights, should be safeguarded in accordance with the law.
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