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AQSIQ Report: Quality of Imported Cotton in 2014 Is Not Optimistic
On March 30, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine released a white paper titled "Quality Status of Nationwide Imported Cotton in 2014" (hereinafter referred to as the white paper) on its official website. The white paper pointed out that the overall quality of imported cotton on arrival in 2014 was not optimistic, and among the four major evaluation indicators for cotton - grade, length, micronaire value and fiber strength - the nonconformity rates for grade, length and strength all increased compared with the same period last year.
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How can food security be guaranteed? Full-process supervision from field to table
Problems such as irrational farming, excessive planting, excessive use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and neglect of the application of organic fertilizers are fed back through links such as grain production, processing, and livestock and poultry breeding to final consumers as the continuously increasing personal health risks brought by residual pollution from pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and the like.
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Yuan Longping Talks About His Year of the Sheep Wish: Striving to Achieve the Super Rice Per-Hectare Target Ahead of Schedule
Yuan Longping (third from right) inspects rice ears in a super rice experimental field in Hunan Province. Photo by Zeng Yong (file photo) The target of 16 tons of super rice per hectare was originally planned for 2018, but we are striving to break through next year! The Year of the Sheep is almost here, and our super rice is the bellwether.
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How can food safety supervision reach the last mile?
"Is testing carried out every day on the vegetables and meat sold in the market? What items are sampled and tested? Has 'clenbuterol' been detected?" On February 8, the inspection team of the Food Safety Office of the State Council came to the Wanlong Vegetable Market in Yubei District, Chongqing, and the adjacent Wanlong Small Food Wholesale
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Strengthen Feed Quality Supervision to Build a Solid Foundation for Livestock Product Safety
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Key Points for Animal Husbandry Work in 2015," explicitly requiring the effective fulfillment of supervisory duties for feed quality and safety, illegal addition of clenbuterol, and raw milk quality and safety, so as to safeguard the quality and safety of livestock products. The newly revised "Regulations on the Administration of Feed and Feed Additives
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How is livestock product safety guaranteed? Strengthening supervision and consolidating the foundation
In order to implement the overall deployment of the Central Rural Work Conference, the National Agricultural Work Conference, and the No. 1 document of the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015 regarding agricultural product quality and safety work, the Ministry of Agriculture recently issued the "Key Work Points for the Livestock Industry in 2015," clearly requiring effective fulfillment of feed quality and safety
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Fertilizer Sales Market Urgently Needs Strict Supervision
In current agricultural production in China, the aging of the labor force has led to less livestock and poultry raising and fewer organic fertilizer sources, so farming relies almost entirely on chemical fertilizers. Chemical fertilizers are low in cost and quick in effect, and have played a fairly good role in increasing yields in agricultural production. This has caused the current fertilization structure in agriculture to
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Farm machinery safety supervision strengthened, five provinces, regions and municipalities in North China coordinate their efforts
Recently, the competent departments for farm machinery in five provinces, regions and municipalities - Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia - jointly signed in Beijing the "Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia Farm Machinery Safety Supervision Coordinated Cooperation Agreement", taking the first step in inter-provincial coordination and joint action for farm machinery safety in North China.
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Seed companies face a new round of supervisory inspections
In order to further strengthen supervision of the seed market, severely crack down on illegal acts such as variety mislabeling and infringement, and promoting unauthorized varieties, effectively protect farmers' interests and the lawful rights and interests of variety rights holders, and ensure the safety of seeds used in agricultural production, the Ministry of Agriculture began implementing the 2015 supervisory inspection action for crop seed enterprises.
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Hybrid rice seed industry sentiment rebounds, pace of superior variety renewal accelerates
In 2014, the domestic hybrid rice seed production area was 1.4 million mu, a decrease of about 230,000 mu from the previous year, down 14.11% year on year; the country's newly produced seed was about 230 million kg, with total output down 42 million kg from last year, a year-on-year decrease of 15.55%. In 2015, the total supply of hybrid rice seed was 355 million
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