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Vegetable area and output both increase this year, Ministry of Agriculture reports
It was learned from the Ministry of Agriculture: since the beginning of this year, the production of "shopping basket" products has generally shown a momentum of steady progress, and the development of the new round of the "shopping basket" project has generally shown a good momentum of steady and relatively rapid growth. By strengthening quality supervision and improving production-marketing coordination, the Ministry of Agriculture has effectively ensured the safe and effective supply of major "shopping basket" products and the stable operation of the market.
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Industrialization of potato as a staple food has gradually made its way onto ordinary people's dining tables
In recent years, China's potato production has continued to develop steadily. In 2014, the planted area reached 5.57 million hectares, accounting for about one quarter of the world's total, and China has become the largest country in potato production and consumption. Against this background, the industrialization of potato as a staple food is particularly important.
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Vegetable planting area increased month-on-month at the end of August, vegetable supply stable during the two festivals
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in August increased year-on-year, and farm-gate wholesale prices stopped falling and rose month-on-month. In September, overall vegetable supply is expected to be stable, and farm-gate wholesale prices will continue to rise slightly. In August, vegetable supply increased both year-on-year and month-on-month.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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