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Budget meat and vegetable stores see business slump, low-profit competition offers no way out
Can budget meat and vegetable stores attract people just by being cheap? Not necessarily. Recently, chain budget stores in Guangzhou have run into this problem. The store manager tried many methods: running promotions, but people came in one wave and then left; slashing the price of one type of rice, but because oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar did not drop in price, it still failed to attract people; the pork counter sat empty, and even with rent halved, no one came. Some experts say that in recent years this kind of homogenized meat and vegetable store has expanded in large numbers, lacking distinctive features, so poor operation is only to be expected. Budget meat and vegetable stores relying solely on low-profit "hand-to-hand combat" have no way out.
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Cool-climate vegetables cool down the summer vegetable market
Summer and autumn cool-climate vegetables refer to vegetables produced in high-altitude (high mountain, plateau) and high-latitude cool regions. Every year from July to September, affected by the transition between vegetable production cycles, summer high temperatures, and disastrous weather such as typhoons and torrential rain, many areas in South China, Jiangnan, and the Huang-Huai River basin
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Corn prices remain stable but weak, industry views and interpretation
Corn prices remain stable but weak. Entering July, from the perspective of the large domestic corn market, short-term market supply is sufficient, downstream demand remains weak, temporary storage auctions continue to be sluggish, the north-south port price inversion is severe, and corn substitutes continue to capture ports and sales area markets.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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