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Aging Grain Crisis May Recur, China's Food Security Faces a Test
China's grain prices are inverted relative to the international market, the scale of grain inventories is growing daily, and auctions of temporary reserve grain continue to face difficulties. At the April 9 auction of state temporary reserve paddy rice, the transaction rate was only 0.02%, and the transaction rate for temporary reserve corn was only 5.13%. Under the halo of 11 consecutive years of grain production growth, the three
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Sustainable use of black soil is key to safeguarding China's food security
In May 2014, the Population, Resources and Environment Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference formed a special research group and conducted on-site research in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces on the issue of black soil protection. The research group believed that protecting China's precious black soil brooks no delay, and vigorous measures must be taken to ensure the sustainable use of black soil and provide strong support for China's food security. Recommendations:
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Ministry of Agriculture Releases First Agricultural Outlook Report, Focusing on Food Security in the Next 10 Years
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture released an agricultural outlook report for the first time, predicting that over the next 10 years, higher yields per unit area will become the main factor in agricultural production growth, and the agricultural industry chain will be further expanded and extended; market supply and demand for major agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, sugar, meat, eggs and milk will continue to remain balanced.
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Eating old grain is making a contribution to food security
Recently the media have been hyping the case of a state grain depot in Jilin passing off old grain as new grain for storage in order to fraudulently obtain state subsidies. In China, the grain issue is a matter of great importance, and playing tricks with grain very easily stirs public anger. So as soon as the report came out, public resentment boiled over, and it was like a rat running across the street with everyone shouting "kill it."
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How does super hybrid rice safeguard national food security?
China currently has a population of more than 1.3 billion, and it will soon reach 1.4 billion. At the same time, China's cultivated land is decreasing year by year. Faced with this severe situation of a growing population and shrinking land, the only way to solve the problem of feeding the entire nation is to greatly increase the yield per unit area of food crops through scientific and technological progress.
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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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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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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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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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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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