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Ample Edible Oil Supply and Weak Demand Make Sustained Price Rallies Unlikely
Last week (October 19-23), influenced by the futures price trends of CBOT soybean oil and Bursa Malaysia palm oil, the domestic vegetable oil market showed wide-ranging fluctuations. As the current domestic vegetable oil supply is ample, the spot market has also entered the traditional off-season for demand after the holiday, and basis has declined somewhat. Last week
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Why is low-cost urbanisation unsustainable?
In 2013 China's urbanisation rate reached 53.7%, with 730 million people included in the urbanisation process; since the start of the new century, an average of more than 20 million people have entered cities each year. This should be the largest-scale and fastest population urbanisation process within a single country in the world. Looking domestically, the urbanisation rate of the eastern region has already reached 62%, the central region 48%, and the western region 44.5%, leaving an 18-percentage-point gap between the western and eastern regions.
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Sustained Development of Farmer-Community Direct Supply Still Needs Support from Multiple Parties
When I first started reporting on the topic of farmer-community direct supply, I went in with a very optimistic attitude. Because it sounds wonderful, solving both the difficulty farmers have selling vegetables and the expense citizens face buying vegetables, a win-win situation that seemed certain to go smoothly. However, during the actual interviews I discovered some
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Support for specialized cooperatives must be sustained; it cannot go hot and then cold
Recently, while interviewing in a county in Shanxi, the author found that a cooperative in the county that was once a model cooperative has now stalled. When asked the reason, the cooperative's chairman said: going to Beijing to report, receiving people from all walks of life who came to learn from its experience, it was lively for a while, and later a field meeting was even held, but
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Corn emergence later than last year, caused by sustained low temperatures
Sustained low temperatures delay corn emergence compared with last year. The corn was planted half a month ago, but because of low temperatures and frequent rain, it has not yet emerged; in previous years at this time it already had several leaves. On May 18, it was still raining, and although the Start of Summer solar term had passed, Harbin
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How can photovoltaic agriculture achieve sustained and healthy development?
Photovoltaic + agriculture is another major breakthrough in China's photovoltaic application field, and it is also a new model of modern agricultural development, gradually becoming a new investment hotspot. Just like all emerging things, photovoltaic agriculture has developed rapidly without sufficient support,
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Major agricultural products achieve sustained and effective supply, with equal emphasis on quantity and efficiency
In a country with such a large population as ours, the issue of food is a matter of paramount importance. At present, economic and social development has entered a new historical period. Especially at a time when world economic growth has slowed markedly and the negative impact on our economy is deepening, agriculture and rural
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Agricultural product price reform to enter two-way subsidy channel
The minimum purchase price and temporary storage policies that have lasted for many years are forcing agricultural product price reform to accelerate. Recently, reporters learned from multiple sources that agricultural product price reform may continue to be a focus of the 2015 "No. 1 Document," and is expected to expand the scope of pilot programs as well as pilot varieties. Relevant departments are studying the specific price reform plan.
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Sustained and healthy development of leisure agriculture requires building a long-term mechanism
Leisure agriculture is a new type of consumer business and an important livelihood industry that has emerged in China in recent years. It has made positive contributions to increasing agricultural value and efficiency, raising farmers' employment and income, promoting rural prosperity and stability, and supporting sustained economic and social development. Facing new circumstances and new tasks, we need to adapt to the situation
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No rain for a sustained period before wheat sowing: should you wait for rain or sow first?
Summary: No rain for a sustained period before wheat sowing: should you wait for rain or sow the wheat? This question has really been a headache lately. Back in my hometown, it has not rained for more than half a month either, but fortunately the soil moisture condition here is still okay...
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