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Rural Drinking Water Safety Project Solves Water Shortage for Farmers in Northwest China
(Reporter Jiang Xuecheng) In recent years, although the central arid zone of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has suffered severe droughts year after year, the family of Ma Hanyu, a Hui farmer in Xiaonanchuan Village, Caowa Township, Haiyuan County, no longer has to worry about drinking water. Now getting water is very convenient, just turn on the tap
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Rural e-commerce faces a talent shortage: even a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan can't attract workers
Qingyuan City in the mountainous region of northern Guangdong recently held its first O2O Youth E-commerce Festival, with a focus on rural e-commerce. At the venue, reporters saw that of the 63 local agricultural e-commerce companies exhibiting, many had put up huge recruitment advertisements in addition to promoting their products. These rural e-commerce companies offer
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Is a Banana Shortage Coming? China's Market May Face a Banana Shortage in the Future
Bananas are undisputedly the staple commodity of the fruit industry. Due to declining supply from major domestic production areas and climate change, the persistently high "bull market" of 2014 brought far-reaching structural changes to the entire industry. Although supply and demand in the domestic market have returned to stability this year, industry insiders
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Finding a Stable Home for Farm Machinery Is Hard; Money and Land Shortages Remain Unsolved
Fujian, which has the least arable land per capita in the country, has about 500 farm machinery professional cooperatives, with 14,000 cooperative members, an annual operational service area of 2.65 million mu, and serving 2.1 million farming households. In recent years, farm machinery cooperatives have developed rapidly and now own 25,000 units (sets) of farm machinery.
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Labor shortage makes hiring difficult in grain farming, how can efficiency be improved?
Recently, at the wheat field of Zhang Junbao, a major grain grower in the 11th Company of the 49th Regiment of the Third Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, this writer saw that with the roar of the combine harvester, the tasks of feeding the heads, threshing and loading were completed in one go, while the baler quickly pressed the wheat stalks into neat rectangular stacks. Zhang Junbao said:
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China's livestock industry development enters the fast lane as the era of meat, egg and milk shortages comes to an end
From eating meat only on holidays to a 7-fold increase in per capita meat availability, from less than 15% of total agricultural output value to "one of three pillars," from a rural household sideline to an important national industry, China's livestock industry has entered the fast lane of development. Farewell to the era of meat, egg and milk shortages. Livestock farming is an
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Rice prices rise in some areas due to a temporary supply shortage
During the Spring Festival, rice processing enterprises in Northeast China stopped operation, and they also resumed work relatively late after the holiday, so the rice market supply was relatively small; moreover, before the holiday, distributors in sales areas were rather pessimistic about the later rice price trend, so they kept relatively small rice stocks. After the holiday, market demand recovered,
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Government market-support purchases leave 80% of rice mills in Northeast short of grain and shut down
The government spends hundreds of billions of yuan every year buying grain, with the original intention of protecting farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain, but it has disrupted normal market circulation and triggered many serious problems. Last year, after new rice came onto the market in the Northeast, processing companies all followed their usual practice and planned to buy a full year's raw materials within 6 months.
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How can dryland farming solve the water shortage problem?
Right now, the drought in China's Huang-Huai region has been effectively alleviated, but the drought in the Northeast region is still ongoing. In recent years, coping with large-scale, prolonged droughts has become the norm in grain production development. The 2007 summer-to-dog-days drought in the Northeast region, the 2009 winter-spring consecutive drought in the northern winter wheat region
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Taiwan, China egg shortage causes prices to soar. What is going on with the most expensive eggs?
An egg shortage has emerged in Taiwan, China. What is going on? Would you like to know? The Executive Yuan and the Council of Agriculture recently held discussions to import eggs to make up the current daily shortfall of 1 million eggs. Chen Chi-chung, head of the Council of Agriculture, said on the 14th that on February 23 and 27, about 1.4 million eggs would be imported from the United States and Japan.
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