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Domestic japonica rice procurement progress accelerates year-on-year, prices overall stable with a slightly stronger bias
In early to mid-November, the harvest of the new-season japonica rice in Northeast China was basically completed, and japonica rice in Jiangsu and Anhui had also entered the final stage. Affected by weather, the quality of rice in Northeast China this year declined somewhat compared with last year. At the same time, boosted by policy-based procurement, various grain enterprises increased their market purchases,
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What to Do When Farming Doesn't Pay? Professional Farmers Step In to Crack the Problem
Most farming households in our rural areas now have just seven or eight mu of land, or a dozen mu; each household farms only this little bit of land, and the money earned from one mu of land is about the same as what you'd earn working in the city for a week. Han Jun, deputy director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, said, how
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Fishery production develops steadily, industrial transformation and upgrading accelerate
This website news: Since the beginning of this year, the nationwide construction of modern fisheries has continued to take solid steps, fishery production has developed steadily, major policies benefiting fishermen have been introduced, and resource conservation work has been solidly advanced. Closely focusing on ensuring supply, transforming the development model, and adjusting the structure, the fishery system has sought innovation and change in developing modern aquaculture models, innovating marketing services, strengthening industrialized operations, increasing marine ranch construction, and advancing fishery informatization, carrying out many effective explorations and achieving relatively good economic and social benefits, providing new impetus for the transformation and upgrading of traditional fisheries toward modern fisheries.
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Corn output up, price down, growing grain no longer profitable: large operators break contracts and abandon farmland after land transfer
The national autumn harvest is nearly complete. As the main autumn harvest crop, this year's corn output will rise again, but farmers in the main producing areas who are welcoming the bumper harvest are hardly happy. Reporters from Economic Information Daily learned in interviews in Hebei, Jilin and other provinces that the current corn purchase price is significantly
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How long until vegetables go direct from field to table?
In recent years, farmers' cooperatives in some cities have opened direct-sales stores in communities to sell vegetables, so that the vegetables grown by farmers go straight from the fields to the dining tables of city residents. This should be a good thing that benefits both residents and farmers, but many vegetable direct-sales stores are losing money. Why
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Autumn vegetable planting area slightly increased in September, with the peak harvest season arriving in October
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in September was basically flat year-on-year and increased month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose both year-on-year and month-on-month. In October, autumn vegetables will begin to hit the market in large volumes, and farm-gate wholesale prices for vegetables will edge down slightly, though the price level will remain higher than the previous year.
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Food waste is not only on the dining table; waste outside the dining table also cannot be ignored
When it comes to food waste, people's attention tends to focus on the visible waste at the dining table, yet they rarely pay attention to losses in the various stages after the harvest. Grain missed and not picked up by harvesters, fire and mold during storage, spillage during circulation and handling, excessive polishing during processing... According to statistics, in the post-production stages alone,
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Ministry of Agriculture: Striving for Winter and Spring Vegetable Self-Sufficiency in Large and Medium-Sized Cities in Northern China by 2020
On October 22, the Ministry of Agriculture held an on-site meeting on facility vegetable production in northern China in Chaoyang, Liaoning. The meeting proposed that, on the basis of coordinating the development of winter facility vegetables in northern cities with the construction of bases for transporting vegetables from the south to the north, efforts should be made to achieve winter and spring vegetable self-sufficiency in large and medium-sized cities in northern China by 2020.
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Overall Level of Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Remained Stable in the Third Quarter
From July to September 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture organized and carried out the third-quarter routine national monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety (risk monitoring), covering 94 parameters across 84 varieties of 4 major categories of products - vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry products, and aquatic products - in 152 large and medium-sized cities across 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), with 11,315 samples tested and an overall pass rate of 97.7%.
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Autumn grain procurement gets off to a steady start, with notable progress in grain storage technology
October 16, 2015, is the 35th World Food Day designated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, coinciding with the 25th National Grain-Saving and Food-Saving Publicity Week. This year's National Grain-Saving and Food-Saving Publicity Week theme is "Promoting Grain and Benefiting Farmers into Every Household." At present, autumn grain procurement is unfolding across various regions, and the grain departments
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