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Breakthrough Progress Made in Edible Processing Technology for Animal Bones
Edible animal bones such as livestock and poultry bones are valuable resources of food-derived protein, fat and minerals. At present, the world's annual output of livestock and poultry bones is as high as more than 46 million tons, of which China accounts for 22%, about 12 million tons, exceeding the combined output of livestock and poultry bones in Europe and the United States. The bone by-products
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Overall climatic conditions in China are poor during this year's flood season, with droughts and floods expected to be more severe
At present, China is entering the flood season successively from south to north, and agricultural flood control and drought relief has entered a critical stage. On May 12, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting of the flood control and drought relief leading group to study and implement the spirit of the important speech by Vice Premier Wang Yang at the first plenary meeting of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters in 2015,
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MaartenCamps Tackles Agricultural Challenges with Innovative Solutions
Pictured is MaartenCamps, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. (Photo source: Sina Finance, photographed by Liang Bin) Sina Finance News - The 2015 4th China International Agribusiness Summit Forum was held in Beijing on May 17. Pictured above is MaartenCamps, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. Below is the transcript of the speech
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How fisheries can seize the era's opportunities brought by Internet Plus
After Premier Li Keqiang mentioned the concept of Internet Plus in the government work report, it has stayed at the top of the hot search term rankings. The Premier stressed that an Internet Plus action plan must be formulated to make emerging consumption, which uses the Internet as a carrier and involves online-offline interaction, flourish. From
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Breeding R&D Will Be the Breakthrough for Making Potatoes a Staple Food
In the mid-16th century, the potato was brought from South America to Europe by Spanish colonists. By the 17th century, because of its higher yield than other grains and its ease of management, the potato had already become an important food crop in Europe and was introduced into China. Today, China
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Grain Moderate-Scale Operations Receive Preferential Support Through Three Subsidies
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture decided that starting from 2015, they would adjust and improve three subsidy policies - the crop improved seed subsidy, the direct subsidy to grain farmers, and the comprehensive agricultural input subsidy (hereinafter referred to as the agricultural "three subsidies"). To actively and steadily advance this work, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Agriculture proposed
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The biggest dividend brought by rural e-commerce is the return of talent to their hometowns
Attracting talent to return home is the biggest dividend brought by rural e-commerce. If he had not heard about rural e-commerce startup projects when he returned home for this year's Spring Festival, Luo Sha, a 26-year-old young man of the Dong ethnic group from Guizhou, would probably still be working 1,300 km away from home in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, doing front office management at a hotel - just like
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Precipitation in the central and eastern parts of North China this week will help alleviate drought conditions
Last week, most of northern China had good light and heat conditions, which was conducive to crop growth; most of North China received effective precipitation, and drought conditions eased in some areas; central Liaoning, western Shandong Peninsula and other places still had no effective precipitation, and drought conditions persisted. Eastern Southwest China, along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and
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Agricultural product price reform requires reforming subsidy policies to boost competitiveness through high efficiency
The "Several Opinions on Advancing Price Mechanism Reform" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") proposes to improve the price formation mechanism for agricultural products, with agricultural product prices mainly determined by the market. The "Opinions" make clear that China will adjust and improve "amber box" (under the Agreement on Agriculture, policies that distort production and trade are called "amber box" policies) support policies, gradually expand the scale and scope of "green box" support policies, continue to implement and improve the minimum purchase price policy for rice and wheat, reform and improve the corn purchase and storage system, continue to implement the pilot reform of target prices for cotton and soybeans, and improve the methods for distributing subsidies.<br /> <br /> For many years, the agricultural sector has been exploring agricultural support policies that do not distort the market and are more efficient, with more "green box" and less "amber box." An official from the Ministry of Agriculture told a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "What is being carried out now is the target price pilot for soybeans and cotton, which also represents the direction of reform for most agricultural products in the future, including grain varieties. The current agricultural subsidy measures are relatively inefficient and in fact have caused a certain degree of market distortion, the so-called 'foreign goods' entering the market and 'domestic goods' entering warehouses."<br /> <br /> <strong> The juncture for shifting from "amber box" to "green box" has arrived</strong><br /> <br /> According to the commitments China made when joining the WTO, agricultural subsidies cannot exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value, and as agricultural production costs gradually rise, the current agricultural subsidy policy is approaching the "amber box" ceiling.<br /> <br /> At present, the prices of the vast majority of China's agricultural products are already formed by market supply and demand, while the measures through which the government truly intervenes in prices mainly include the minimum purchase price policy implemented respectively for rice and wheat, the two key staple grain varieties, in the main producing areas starting in 2004 and 2006, as well as the temporary purchase and storage of bulk agricultural products such as corn, rapeseed, and cotton since 2008.<br /> <br /> Supported by market-support purchase prices and temporary storage prices that have risen almost year by year, domestic agricultural product prices have become "inverted" relative to international prices. At present, international soybean, corn, and wheat prices are 1,175 yuan, 923 yuan, and 626 yuan per ton lower than domestic prices, respectively. "When China joined the WTO, it promised that agricultural subsidies could not exceed 8.5% of agricultural output value. This is a restriction on government subsidies that distort production and trade, and now subsidies for some of our products have already crossed that limit." Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs, said recently that as the squeezing effect of the rising "floor" of domestic grain production costs becomes more and more obvious, part of the "amber box" subsidies must now be shifted to the "green box."<br /> <br /> Strengthen monitoring of agricultural product prices<br /> <br /> "Although the intensity of protection for agricultural products has not diminished, countries such as those in Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea have shown a trend of reducing the intensity of agricultural subsidy support, paying more attention to enhancing their own agricultural industry competitiveness." Zhang Hongyu, director of the Department of Rural Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Daily Economic News, "China must also focus on considering the 'transformation of methods and adjustment of structure' of agriculture from the perspective of improving agriculture's capacity for sustainable development, and take an intensive modern agricultural development path featuring an efficient agricultural industry, safe products, resource conservation, and environmental friendliness."<br /> <br /> According to the "Opinions," China will also strengthen the investigation of agricultural product costs and price monitoring, accelerate the establishment of a global agricultural data investigation and analysis system, and provide important support for the government in formulating policies on agricultural product prices and agricultural subsidies. "Agricultural product cost survey data are an effective basis for scientifically formulating a series of policies benefiting farmers, and under the current situation of continuously rising agricultural production costs, they are especially important." A person engaged in local statistical work told the reporter, "It is necessary to understand local farmers' planting and breeding habits and grasp information such as farmers' preferences in using chemical fertilizers and pesticides, land transfer prices, and the marketing costs of agricultural products." "Considering it along the lines of Internet Plus, if big data on agricultural product production costs, market price fluctuations, international price references, and even comparisons of foreign agricultural product costs can be formed, it will have a profound impact on China's agricultural development." Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Rural Development Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that "this can not only help solve the prominent problems existing in China's agriculture, but can also bring broad application prospects in areas such as agricultural socialized services and agricultural science and technology."
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What does governance-driven drought teach us
In recent years, field surveys have often revealed the "last mile" problem: the state invests trillions of yuan in rural areas every year, building large water conservancy facilities, roads connecting villages, rural libraries and agricultural technology service stations, providing farmers with infrastructure and public services
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