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Southern Potato Conference Held: More Than 50% of Potatoes in China Will Be Consumed as a Staple Food by 2025
From December 17 to 18, the 2015 Southern Potato Conference was held in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province, with more than 400 academic and industry professionals from home and abroad in attendance. According to statistics from the Potato Professional Committee of the Crop Science Society of China, from 2010 to 2014, China's potato
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Significant improvement achieved in fertilizer and pesticide utilization rates for the three major staple grains
On December 2, the Ministry of Agriculture held a press briefing, at which Zeng Yande, Director of the Department of Crop Production Management, revealed that according to scientific measurement, in 2015 the fertilizer utilization rate for China's three major grain crops - rice, corn and wheat - was 35.2%, an increase of 2.2 percentage points over 2013; the pesticide utilization rate
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State Administration of Grain on Further Advancing the Industrialization of Staple Foods
Guo Liang Zhan [2012] No. 164 Guiding Opinions of the State Administration of Grain on Further Advancing the Industrialization of Staple Foods and Enhancing the Capacity to Guarantee Staple Ration Supply To the grain bureaus of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, cities under separate state planning, the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and the General Administration of State Farms of Heilongjiang Province; China Grain Reserves Corporation, COFCO Corporation, China Hualiang Logistics Corporation, and China Zhongfang Corporation:
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Three Major Staple Grains See Rare Simultaneous Decline: How Can Derivatives Solve the Agricultural Puzzle?
If you control oil, you control all nations; if you control food, you control all people. As former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said, food security is crucial to a country. At the recently held 4th
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Potato is an indispensable staple crop
[Conference in progress: NPC Standing Committee] NPC Standing Committee members hotly discuss the draft amendment to the Seed Law: Potato cannot be missing from staple crops. Guangming Daily, Beijing, November 1 (Reporters Yin Hong, Wang Yiyin). The 17th session of the 12th NPC Standing Committee
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Prices of the three major staple grains fall together, agricultural product price reform may accelerate
A bumper harvest without a bumper income: this autumn, farmers may not have much to celebrate. Since the third quarter, prices of the three major domestic staple grains have fallen steadily. According to statistics, corn saw the largest drop, with the purchase price falling from the year's high of 2279 yuan/ton to 1980 yuan/ton, a decline of 13.1%; the wheat purchase price fell from the year's high of
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Purchase Prices of the Three Major Staple Grains Fall; Experts Suggest Raising Pensions and Other Measures to Cope
[Farmers' Income May Suffer Losses of Hundreds of Billions; Purchase Prices of the Three Major Staple Grains Fall Across the Board] Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. Corn has fallen by an average of more than 20%, with the largest drop reaching 30% compared with last year. Analysts say that this year special attention must be paid to
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Purchase prices for China's three major staple grains fall across the board, farmers' income could suffer losses in the hundreds of billions
A bumper grain harvest, a sharp drop in grain prices, and a plunge in farmers' income. Since the start of autumn this year, the value of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas has fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices is particularly pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of more than 20%, and the largest decline reaching 30% compared with last year
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Potato Staple Food Processing Industry Alliance Established
Recently, the National Potato Staple Food Processing Industry Alliance, formed under the leadership of the Institute of Food Science and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, held its founding conference in Dingxi, Gansu, aiming to implement the State Council's deployment requirements for accelerating the transformation of agricultural development methods, deeply carry out the staple food processing
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Industrialization of potato as a staple food has gradually made its way onto ordinary people's dining tables
In recent years, China's potato production has continued to develop steadily. In 2014, the planted area reached 5.57 million hectares, accounting for about one quarter of the world's total, and China has become the largest country in potato production and consumption. Against this background, the industrialization of potato as a staple food is particularly important.
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