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What Are Grain-Growing Farmers Thinking? Growing Grain on Over a Hundred Mu Brings Considerable Returns
Opening Column Note: In order to further consolidate the achievements of the Party's mass line education and practice campaign, carry forward the fine style of the agricultural departments in working hard, serving agriculture, rural areas and farmers, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and being honest and efficient, the Ministry of Agriculture recently organized the "Hundred Townships, Ten Thousand Households Survey" for the fifth consecutive year, sending
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When will land transfer fees no longer remain outside supervision?
The 2014 national land transfer fee revenue and expenditure situation published by the Ministry of Finance on March 24 shows that last year's national land transfer fee revenue was 4.29 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.1%; the phenomenon of inadequate collection and management of land transfer revenue still exists, and some places have under-collected, deferred collection,
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Industry insiders say global sugar production is highly likely to decline in 2015/2016
As international raw sugar import channels become increasingly open and domestic raw sugar processing capacity expands, the influence of international sugar prices on the domestic market has grown accordingly, and the correlation between the two markets has begun to increase. However, since 2015, the domestic and international markets have moved in opposite directions: international
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Launch Legal Education in the Countryside to Advance Law-Based Agriculture
This year's No. 1 Central Document proposed law-based agriculture for the first time, providing a program of action for rural rule-of-law development and pointing the way forward. This is both an inevitable step in promoting the development of our country's agriculture, rural areas and farmers, and an inherent requirement of comprehensively advancing the rule of law. Law-based agriculture is full of highlights
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Vegetable Village Opens Field-Side Market, Making It Easier for Growers to Sell Their Produce
Pick on the way back, sell on return. A few minutes at the market is enough to learn prices and purchasing standards, without delaying farm work, and it also saves on transport costs. In early spring, Bao Qunyan, a vegetable grower from Gaogongzhuang Township, Wei County, Hebei, pulled a cartload of freshly harvested tomatoes to the field-side market at the entrance of his village.
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City residents go to the countryside for spring plowing: how can happy farms achieve a win-win for both urban and rural areas?
The online version of Happy Farm was once all the rage, and now a real-life version of Happy Farm is quietly emerging on the outskirts of Beijing. As city residents yearn to return to rural life, many people on the Beijing outskirts have spotted this market and are rolling out leisure agriculture projects that let city dwellers go to the countryside and cultivate a "one-fen plot." However, the real
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Capital goes to the countryside: strong enough to grab land, but not capable of farming it
Land lessees unilaterally break contracts or even abscond, land rent is hard to collect, and returned land either has lost its boundaries or has seriously damaged motor-pumps and pipes, or even misses the farming season and is left abandoned. In early April, a China Youth Daily reporter in Baixiang and Wei County of Xingtai City, Hebei Province
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Capital flowing to the countryside generally does not grow grain: three major difficulties behind it
Regarding the phenomenon noted by China Youth Daily reporters during interviews in Xingtai, Handan and other places, that capital going to the countryside has the strength to compete for land but not the ability to farm it, He Xuefeng, director of the China Rural Governance Research Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and doctoral supervisor, said this situation is not uncommon nationwide.
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How Can Rural Community Development Highlight Countryside Characteristics
The "rural communities with countryside characteristics" referred to here are compared with urban communities. At present, the different communities in Chinese cities have formed along with the rapid development of China's social economy, and have obvious characteristics such as a large and concentrated population, strong government support, diverse residents' occupations, convenient community service facilities, a high degree of network informatization, and very little interpersonal interaction among residents.
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How can agricultural investment attract industrial and commercial capital to the countryside?
In China's agricultural sector today, one of the most eye-catching hot topics is none other than industrial and commercial capital rushing to stake a claim in agriculture. Most of them enter agriculture full of hope, believing that with money, people, and markets, they will navigate the agricultural field smoothly and triumphantly all the way.
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