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300 million farmers with no connection to land must be taken seriously; the land system requires long-term planning
■Everyone must remember that we have 300 million farmers with no connection to land, and this is a terrifying number. Last year's latest data shows that the total number of landless farmers has now reached 112 million, and adding the 200 million people born after 1994 who were never allocated land in the first place
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China's rural groundwater is seriously polluted: is it still drinkable?
Since 2005, as a doctoral supervisor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I have led group after group of graduate students in ecological agriculture practice in my own hometown, Jiangjiazhuang Village, Bianqiao Town, Pingyi County, Shandong Province, contracting about 40 mu of low-yield farmland and running an ecological farm. We have witnessed
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The inversion of grain and finance threatens food security and should be taken seriously
A research report by the China Well-off Society Construction Research Association states that among China's 800 major grain-producing counties, which account for nearly three-quarters of the national total grain output, more than 100 are national-level poverty-stricken counties, with a poor population of 36 million. The phenomenon of the inversion of grain output and county-level financial strength, known as "inversion of grain and finance," is very obvious
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Northeast China's black soil long overburdened, degradation and loss problems growing increasingly serious
In the past, a chopstick stuck in the ground would sprout; now, how come fertilizer is applied but grain still won't grow? In Zihe Village, Erjing Town, Bei'an City, Heilongjiang Province, village party branch secretary Yan Zhongjie dug less than 30 cm with a shovel and exposed yellow earth. The black soil layer has dropped from an average of 60 to 70 cm in the 1950s to
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Serious "non-grain" phenomenon in land transfers draws attention
The logical endpoint of capital going to the countryside, paying land rent costs and transferring land, is increasingly serious non-grain operation. On July 14, the Shaanxi Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics released survey results showing that the non-grain phenomenon in transferred land in Shaanxi Province is serious, with only 16.7% of land transferred to households growing
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Rural Land Abandonment Is Serious; Investors Wait for a Chance to Pocket Subsidies
To accelerate the healthy development of land transfer, the key is to establish by law the rights and obligations of all parties involved in land transfer operations, and to push forward coordinated innovation in the institutions, mechanisms, policies and models related to land transfer. Rural land transfer is an important part of deepening the reform of the rural land system.
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The problem of land consolidation destroying forest land is serious and requires stronger crackdown efforts
Land consolidation is seriously destroying forest land, and some places are giving the green light to industrial parks illegally occupying forest land. It is necessary to increase the weight of ecological protection in the performance assessment of officials, and establish an accountability system involving ecological issues. In recent times, in some places, illegal occupation of forest land and destruction of forest
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Serious soil pollution debt: fertilizer use exceeds the upper limit by more than 2 times
The Fourth China Food Safety Summit Forum, themed on the food safety science and technology challenges of the 13th Five-Year Plan, was held in Guangzhou a few days ago. Reporters learned at the meeting that China's average fertilizer use far exceeds the globally recognized warning upper limit. Experts at the meeting believe that compared with the past, China's agricultural
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Serious harm from excessive fertilizer use: how can we farm the land and nourish it at the same time?
At present, China consumes 59 million tons of chemical fertilizer each year, accounting for 35% of the world's total consumption, a 2-fold increase over 30 years ago, causing serious environmental problems, said Chen Wenxin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, at the national soil microbiology academic symposium held a few days ago. In recent years, with
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As China grows richer, food waste becomes more serious, drawing foreign media attention
An October 15 article on the editorial website of Bloomberg News of the United States, original title: China needs cleaner plates. The next time you dump leftovers into the trash, stop and think about China. From 2010 to 2012, 11.5% of mainland Chinese were malnourished, but Chinese people still waste more food each year than Americans.
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