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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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Agricultural development needs to shift from grain supply to the pursuit of economic returns
Advancing agricultural modernization and transforming the agricultural development model are the focus of China's 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture. How should agricultural development transform its model under the 13th Five-Year Plan? In the view of Li Jieren, Party Secretary of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the extensive production that used to pursue output above all, and the low efficiency brought by excessively dispersed smallholder production, both urgently require a transformation of the model.
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New Golden Vegetable Variety in Jixian County Brings High Returns, Boosting Agricultural Output and Income
In recent years, Jixian County has actively developed green, ecological and efficient modern urban agriculture, focusing on building Jixian agricultural products. A batch of distinctive agricultural projects with high technical thresholds and high returns have developed rapidly, with broad market prospects, effectively promoting farmers' income growth and prosperity. Recently,
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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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Declining Net Returns from Grain Farming: Who Will Grow the Grain Concerns National Food Security
For a long time, "who will grow the grain" has been an extremely important topic, since it concerns national food security. But it also seems not to be a problem, because as long as grain farming is worthwhile, someone will naturally grow it. So "who will grow the grain" ultimately comes down to how to ensure that grain farming is profitable, yet the grim reality is truly worrying.
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When farming pays well, the professionalization of farmers follows naturally
The Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 13th Five-Year Plan mentioned a term: new-type professional farmer. Although it is not a newly coined term, it still reveals the future direction of farmers and agriculture. The school where the author works has no shortage of agriculture-related majors, such as Chinese herbal
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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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Periodic Tightening of Wheat Supply and Demand Pushes Prices Back Toward Policy Price
The scope of the launch of the minimum purchase price policy for wheat in major producing areas has further expanded, which is expected to drive the start of a periodic market trend for wheat. As grain sources in the domestic circulation market further decrease, combined with the consumption of inventory grain sources by flour processing enterprises, the new wheat circulation market will show a pattern of "declining supply and rising demand"
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