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Never relax in autumn grain production, go all out to achieve the goal of stable grain output and increased income
This website news: As the farming proverb says, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month determines drought or flood, and the 15th day of the eighth lunar month determines the harvest. At present, we are in the critical period for autumn grain yield formation and the tough stage of field management. The Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting to make special arrangements for late-stage management of autumn grain. Vice Minister Yu Xinrong stressed,
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Vegetable planting area slightly decreased at the end of July, supply guaranteed in August
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's Vegetable Production Information Network, vegetable supply in July decreased both year-on-year and month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose year-on-year and remained flat month-on-month. In August, the overall vegetable supply is expected to be guaranteed, with farm-gate wholesale prices trending upward steadily. In July, vegetable supply entered the summer slack season
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Finding a Stable Home for Farm Machinery Is Hard; Money and Land Shortages Remain Unsolved
Fujian, which has the least arable land per capita in the country, has about 500 farm machinery professional cooperatives, with 14,000 cooperative members, an annual operational service area of 2.65 million mu, and serving 2.1 million farming households. In recent years, farm machinery cooperatives have developed rapidly and now own 25,000 units (sets) of farm machinery.
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Can you eat off-season fruits and vegetables? Read this and you will understand
Today, many people who pursue an organic lifestyle strongly emphasize one phrase: eat only what is in season. For example, eat loquats in spring, watermelon in summer, apples in autumn, and radishes in winter. They believe that off-season fruits and vegetables are very likely grown using some kind of chemical method
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Critical period for autumn grain crop control: pesticide market generally stable
According to the July monitoring by the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals under the Ministry of Agriculture, the national pesticide market was generally stable, insecticides remained basically stable, the fungicide wholesale market tended to be active, herbicides became sluggish in both wholesale and retail, and prices of all types of pesticides continued to remain stable. In the wholesale segment, total sales volume
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Northeast corn holds steady, imports rise markedly
This month, Northeast corn was basically stable. According to market information, by the end of the month the ex-warehouse price of standard-grade corn was mostly 2150-2200 yuan/tonne in Heilongjiang, mostly 2250-2280 yuan/tonne in Jilin, and 2280-2300 yuan/tonne in Liaoning. Analysis shows that in July, corn in the Northeast region
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Potato as a staple food: industrialization draws ever nearer, but how far is it from the ordinary dinner table?
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing higher and higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time. The potato is a major food that is rich in nutrients and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat and
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Fertilizer application rates for fruit trees and vegetables in China have exceeded safe levels
The State Council Information Office held a press conference this morning, at which Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin briefed on the work related to the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution. When answering a reporter's question about farmers frequently and widely using agricultural film, pesticides and chemical fertilizers in large amounts, causing serious pollution
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How many hurdles must the potato clear to go from vegetable to staple food
On the plate it is a vegetable, in the bowl it is a staple food; for the tiny potato to make its counterattack transformation, how many hurdles must it still clear? In 2014, China's potato planting area and output each accounted for about 1/4 of the world's total, making it already the world's largest producer and consumer. This year, China launched the strategy for the development of potato staple food products and the industry, taking the potato, which is "water-saving, fertilizer-saving, pesticide-saving and labor-saving" to grow and nutritionally "perfect in every way," as a supplement to the three major staple foods of corn, rice and wheat for related product development.
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The layer hen industry is accelerating its transformation: what does the future hold?
As a veritable major producer of layer hens, for a long time the farming method has nevertheless been dominated by small and medium-scale farms of fewer than 10,000 birds, with the prominent industry characteristic of "small scale, large population." In the course of its development, problems such as overcapacity, weak chick-rearing capacity and insufficient deep-processing capacity
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