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Why is offshore aquaculture like gambling, with risks that must be borne alone?
The power of No. 9 Typhoon Rammasun was shocking: when Rammasun made landfall in Wenchang City, Hainan on July 18, its maximum central wind force reached force 17, making it the strongest typhoon to make landfall in South China since 1973, and also the strongest among the typhoons that have made landfall in Guangdong and Guangxi since 1949.
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Vegetable farmers now have a protective umbrella against market risks
Green leafy vegetables are an essential dish on the tables of Shanghai residents. Ensuring a stable and balanced supply of locally grown vegetables, mainly green leafy vegetables, is an important part of the practical work done for the people by relevant government departments and insurance companies. Shanghai began exploring cost-and-price insurance for green leafy vegetables in 2006
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Rising Risks for Corn as Prices Face a Pullback; Tight Supply of High-Quality Grain May Ease
Since June and July, corn futures prices have risen sharply, driven by drought weather and tight supply of high-quality grain. Among them, the nearby 1409 contract showed the most obvious trend, with corn 1409 rising about 14.58% and 1501 rising about 4.35% in the short two months to the end of August. The earlier rapid rise in corn futures prices
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A bumper corn harvest is a foregone conclusion, but market risks warrant vigilance
Golden October is exactly the harvest season in Heilongjiang, and as far as the eye can see there are endless stretches of corn and soybeans. The vast black soil has upheld this region's status as China's largest grain-producing area through its bounty. A reporter recently followed an inspection team from Harbin to Suihua, through Bei'an, past Wudalianchi, as far north as Heihe, then back through Nenjiang, Nehe and Mo Banner in Inner Mongolia, and finally returning to Harbin via Qiqihar, Longjiang and Daqing, a journey of 2,500 kilometers. Through on-site surveys, visits to farming households, seed dealers and grain purchasers, and in-depth discussions with large-scale grain growers, planting associations, state-owned grain depots and processing enterprises, it was learned that the Northern Granary will again welcome a bumper year.
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China's agriculture faces three major risks; deeper understanding needed of "two antis and one safeguard" trade remedy measures
In response to the current severe situation in which net imports of bulk agricultural products are rapidly expanding and causing serious damage or threat to relevant domestic industries, and in order to discuss countermeasures and deepen the industry's understanding of trade remedy measures such as "two antis and one safeguard," the Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture organized a seminar on agricultural industry security and trade remedies on October
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Agricultural risks need to be re-understood, and agricultural financial services urgently need strengthening
Agriculture has been undergoing profound changes in recent years. On the one hand, with the advancement of industrialization and urbanization, the rural labor force has decreased, the contradiction between people and land has been alleviated, capital from home and abroad has entered agriculture on a large scale, and new technologies and new organizational models have gradually been applied to agricultural production,
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Preventing and Controlling Agricultural Risks to Ensure Safety and Achieve the Two Ensures Goals
In 2014, veterinary departments at all levels closely focused on the goal and task put forward by the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture of "striving to ensure that no regional major animal epidemic occurs and no major animal product quality and safety incident occurs," actively prevented and controlled the risk of animal diseases, and strictly supervised the safety of food of animal origin.
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Risks in the Use of Organic Fertilizer and Their Solutions
Preface Amid widespread concerns over food safety, with the rise of organic farming and ecological agriculture, organic farms and ecological farms have been springing up like bamboo shoots after rain all across the country. Many people have chosen to grow their own vegetables and grains, and many investment institutions have also begun to make major
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Manure and livestock waste as fertilizer pose high risks: antibiotic contamination reaches deep into the soil
Antibiotics, as veterinary drugs and feed additives, are widely used in the livestock and poultry farming industries of countries around the world. According to statistics, China's annual use of veterinary antibiotics had already exceeded 6000 tons by 2000. However, about 60% to 90% of the antibiotics administered to farmed animals are excreted in their original form
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Why is circular livestock farming beneficial for avoiding industrial fluctuation risks?
According to reports from Sichuan media, in order to achieve large-scale livestock farming, in 2013 Lezhi County of that province built the Shengmeiyuan Modern Livestock Farming Science and Technology Demonstration Park in Longmen Township, with automated and semi-automated facilities for feeding, temperature control, underfloor heating, watering and monitoring throughout the park, and the 14 completed
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