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Food Security Becomes a Key Focus of the 13th Five-Year Plan
As the macroeconomy enters the "new normal," how will the 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture strike a development beat between the squeeze of resources and the market? On June 4, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the 13th Five-Year Plan for agricultural and rural economic development will strive, under the topic of sustainable agricultural development, to figure out how to raise grain production capacity, ensure food security, and promote farmers' income growth.
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Measures for Assessing the Implementation of the Provincial Governor Responsibility System for Food Security Issued by the General Office of the State Council
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 12 (Report) -- In order to thoroughly implement the national food security strategy under the new circumstances, fully implement the primary responsibility of local governments for food security, and effectively safeguard national food security, in accordance with the Several Opinions of the State Council on Establishing and Improving the Provincial Governor Responsibility System for Food Security
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How can China achieve sustainable food and food security
Note: On November 2, a report titled "How Can China Sustainably Ensure Its Own Food and Food Security?" was presented by John B. Cobb, Jr., director of the Institute for Postmodern Development of China and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Renmin University of China, moderated by Professor Wen Tiejun. This article is excerpted from the report.
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Exploring China's Food Security Issue and Its Solutions
China's housing area is less than half that of the United States and 2/3 that of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany; when per capita housing area reaches 35 sq m, it equals that of the United Kingdom and France. The green coverage rate is not high because there are many high-rise and super-high-rise buildings; China's per capita residential land area of 5 sq m ranks at the bottom worldwide, less than the land area for cattle and horse pens - truly worse off than cattle and horses, living in overcrowded houses without natural wind or natural light, and the sports areas in residential compounds cannot accommodate 1% of the residents for outdoor fitness and exercise. According to estimates by relevant experts, without exercise, or with 3 hours of exercise a day or running 5 km, one would need to eat 30% less grain.
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Food security does not rely on Sinograin, so what does it rely on for protection?
With grain in hand, the heart is at ease. This is the core idea of our country's grain policy. It sounds fine, but unfortunately the real world has costs. The first problem is that grain prices are pushed up, and our country has become a high-price zone in the international grain market. From wheat and corn to rice, although
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Why does reducing fertilizer use and increasing efficiency in agriculture not affect food security?
Chemical fertilizers have made an indelible contribution to China's consecutive years of agricultural harvests, but as chemical fertilizer use in China has increased, its efficiency in boosting crop yields has been declining, and it has even brought impacts on the ecological environment. In fact, reducing fertilizer use, especially for cash crops such as vegetables and fruits,
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Smart grain depots safeguard the security of central grain reserves
Central grain reserves are an important material means for the state to regulate the grain market, and an important strategic material related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy. As a dispatched agency of Sinograin, the Xi'an Branch of Sinograin governs the central reserve grain and oil and the depots directly under central grain reserves in Shaanxi Province and the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
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To safeguard food security, what does it take to fortify the world's granary?
As the world's granary, Sinograin, on the grand scale, bears on national food security; on the small scale, it bears on the people's daily food supply. Operating safely and effectively is its first priority. As the primary implementer of grain reserves, Sinograin has an enormous reserve scale, like a small horse pulling a big cart,
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Carrying Forward the Ecological Agriculture Tradition to Safeguard China's Food Security
[Editor's Note]Ecological agriculture has become a fashionable term nowadays. When it is mentioned, people always think of developed countries such as those in Europe and America, and the concept of ecological agriculture has become a foreign import. In fact, China's traditional agriculture also deserves the label of ecological. This article points out that as early as a century
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Solving the problem of pigs' rations to safeguard national food security
With the growth of the total population, the rising share of urban residents, higher household income levels, and the expansion of industrial and energy uses of agricultural products, China's grain consumption has shown a clear year-on-year upward trend in recent years. Even with ten consecutive years of grain output growth, the grain self-sufficiency
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