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How does the central government guide the transformation of agricultural development mode through fiscal policy?
Currently, China's agricultural development is facing tremendous changes and challenges. The "ceiling" capping effect on agricultural product prices is beginning to emerge, the squeeze from the rising "floor" of costs is becoming increasingly obvious, the "yellow line" of agricultural production and price subsidies is being approached, and the "red light" of resources and environment is beginning to flash. We have reached the stage where we must accelerate the transformation of agricultural development mode.
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How to Achieve Coordinated Development Through Urban-Rural Integration
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party made coordination one of the five major development concepts, proposing to focus on promoting coordinated urban-rural and regional development, promoting coordinated economic and social development, and promoting the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. Facing the current urban
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How can farmers' professional cooperatives be brought to life?
In the height of summer, in Quyuan Town of Zigui County, the hometown of the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, a scene of abundant harvest is unfolding: farm vehicles loaded with pigs, bamboo baskets on the rear racks of several motorcycles filled with free-range chickens about to be shipped to market, stretches of citrus, sweet
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How to Break Through the Institutional Obstacles to Rural Development
The past decade has been the period in which our country's agriculture developed fastest, the rural landscape changed the most, and farmers gained the most tangible benefits; it has also been the "golden decade" for our country's rural economic and social development. However, with the in-depth advancement of industrialization, urbanization, marketization, informatization and globalization,
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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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Ministry of Agriculture Issues Technical Guidance on Combating Summer Drought and Protecting Autumn Grain in Huang-Huai-Hai Summer Maize
Maize Expert Steering Group of the Ministry of Agriculture (July 30, 2014) Since June, precipitation in most of the Huang-Huai-Hai region has been below normal, with sustained high temperatures in July, and drought conditions developing rapidly in some areas. At present, summer maize in the Huang-Huai-Hai region is at the large trumpet stage, with some entering the tasseling and silking stage, which is the period of greatest water demand and greatest sensitivity to water shortage.
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Why has drought appeared in many places this year? Experts say the drought may continue
In recent times, high temperatures have occurred across most of northern China, further intensifying soil moisture evaporation and causing the drought to spread rapidly across various regions. Meteorological experts believe that in summer, it is fairly common for some parts of China to experience either drought or flooding. At present, the main grain-producing areas have not formed large-scale drought, but grain output in some local areas with more severe drought has been greatly affected
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