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How to prevent and control H7N9 flu? The Ministry of Agriculture organizes supervision inspections
Currently, it is the peak season for H7N9 flu, and prevention and control efforts nationwide have entered a critical period. To further strengthen H7N9 prevention and control work, in accordance with the arrangements of the national video conference on animal H7N9 flu prevention and control, the Ministry of Agriculture will recently dispatch designated liaison working groups to key provinces
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A Brief Analysis of Farmer-Supermarket Direct Supply and Vegetable Direct Sales Models
Agriculture is heavily influenced by natural factors and climate change, and is basically dependent on the weather, so agricultural production and prices fluctuate considerably. Because vegetables are also affected by transportation, storage and other factors, price fluctuations are even more frequent. Every year there are news reports of vegetable prices
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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