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New breakthrough in super rice adds further guarantee for China's food security
On October 10, the Ministry of Agriculture organized experts to measure the yield of the fourth-phase China super rice project targeting 1000 kg per mu, led by Academician Yuan Longping, the father of hybrid rice. The results showed that the per-mu yield of the fourth-phase super rice in a 100-mu plot in Xupu County, Hunan Province, exceeded 1000 kg, setting
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Food security draws attention, Li Keqiang to visit UN Food and Agriculture Organization
At the invitation of FAO Director-General Graziano da Silva, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council will visit the headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on October 15. This is the first visit by a Chinese leader to the FAO headquarters, and he will deliver a speech at the FAO headquarters, expounding
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Minister of Agriculture stresses full implementation of the national food security strategy under new circumstances
Fully implement the national food security strategy under new circumstances Han Changfu Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the new central leadership collective with Comrade Xi Jinping as General Secretary, focusing on achieving the "Two Centenary Goals" and the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, has proposed a
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Increasing grain imports to ensure food security, real grain prices tend to decline
The issue of food security is an old topic. People of insight have long known that the Chinese can fully feed themselves. As early as 1994, when Lester Brown came to China with alarming claims, many domestic scholars pointed out that there were loopholes in Brown's calculations, the most serious being
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Food security requires making good use of two markets
On the morning of the 24th, the "Foundation of a Great Nation--China's Rural Development Golden Autumn Report" hosted by China National Radio's China Rural Voice was held at China Agricultural University. Xu Xiaoqing, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council and former director of the Rural Economy Research Department, said that our country's
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An Analysis of Current Hidden Dangers in China's Agricultural Security and Strategic Choices
On November 12, 2013, the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Some Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform," proposing that China will establish a National Security Committee and improve the national security system and national
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Ensuring food security while protecting farmers' interests
"In order to ensure that all the grain farmers want to sell can be purchased, we built this covered shed warehouse, which requires little investment, delivers quick results, and can also ensure food security." On September 10, in No. 2 granary of the Siping City Second Grain Depot, depot director Li Shuguo stood atop a golden grain pile more than 6 meters high
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Reflections Sparked by the Food Crisis: How Can Food Security Be Guaranteed?
When did agriculture once again become a hot topic in international debate? We can only roughly judge it to be between 2007 and 2009. During this period, the US financial crisis and the European debt crisis broke out in succession, and the world's energy, resource and environmental crises reappeared. People also discovered that poverty
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Cultivated land is fundamental to safeguarding national food security.
Who decides on land transfer, what scale of land operation is appropriate, how to guide the "non-grain" use of cultivated land, and how to view the boom of industrial and commercial capital going to the countryside How to make land "circulate" At present, land transfer is showing a trend of accelerated development across the country. As of the end of 2013, the national contracted cultivated land transfer area was 340 million mu, 3.1 times that at the end of 2008, and the transfer ratio reached 26%, 17.1 percentage points higher than at the end of 2008. There were more than 2.87 million specialized large households with an operating area of more than 50 mu, and more than 870,000 family farms.
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Ecological agriculture transformation and food security assurance advance in parallel
In 1994, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute in the United States, published an article titled "Who Will Feed China?" in the US journal World Watch, claiming that China would inevitably experience food shortages, thereby causing a global food crisis. At the time, this view immediately
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