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The Ministry of Agriculture Officially Establishes the Third National Feed Review Committee
On December 15, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting in Beijing for the transition of the National Feed Review Committee, and provided training on policies, regulations and technical specifications for all committee members. The meeting pointed out that the new review committee should take ensuring product safety, high efficiency and environmental friendliness and guiding independent innovation and development
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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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Corn Becomes the Focus of Structural Adjustment: A Third of the Nation's Corn Acreage May Be Converted from Grain to Forage
In Shandong, a major grain-planting province, more than 80% of grain corn is used as livestock feed, while the nation's feed grain still depends on imports of 100 million tonnes per year. Under the food security strategy, grain used for livestock feed has been brought into policy consideration. In a recent public
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Grassland Ecological Compensation and Award Policy Introduces Third-Party Assessment Mechanism for the First Time
This year marks the final year of the first implementation cycle of the grassland compensation and award policy. Does the design of this policy actually fit the realities of grassland pastoral areas? How well has it been implemented? What results have been achieved, and what problems remain? Recently, the grassland compensation and award policy assessment symposium
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Imported milk up 7-fold in 6 years, accounting for one third of national milk consumption
From my child's birth to age 3, I kept asking friends to carry infant formula back from Japan. I don't trust domestic milk, and with "carrying milk from overseas" I also worry about "running out." Speaking of his experience of "carrying milk from overseas," Mr. Ding, who lives in Harbin, was full of helplessness. The latest data from the China Dairy Industry Association is embarrassing currently our
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China's soybean imports in the third quarter are expected to reach a massive volume
Oil World: China's soybean imports in July this year could reach as high as 9.5 million tonnes. According to the Hamburg, Germany-based industry publication Oil World, China's soybean imports in July 2015 could reach 9.2 million to 9.5 million tonnes. By comparison, statistics released by the General Administration of Customs of China early this week
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The Third National Agricultural Census Will Be Conducted Next Year
Yesterday, the State Council announced that the Third National Agricultural Census will be conducted in 2016, with the standard reference time of the census being December 31, 2016, and the period data being the data for the year 2016. It is understood that the Third National Agricultural Census mainly covers crop farming, forestry, animal husbandry
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A Third of China's Soil Is Eroded, and the Situation for Farmland Protection Is Grim
By the end of 2013, China had a total of 646.1684 million hectares of agricultural land, with a net increase of 0.0049 million hectares of farmland during the year. China's total area of soil erosion now stands at 2.9491 million square kilometers, accounting for 31.12% of the total area covered by the survey. Zhao Ye, a professor at the School of Environment of Beijing Normal University, points out
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The seed industry market is expected to bottom out and rebound in the third quarter
Editor's note: In recent years, some seed inventories have been severe, with corn and rice seed supply exceeding demand, the number of seed companies and seed production areas shrinking, and production capacity declining. According to general patterns, after two or three years of wandering in the trough, the seed market will enter an upward cycle. Last year, the seed production, supply and demand analysis meeting of the National Agricultural Technology Center also predicted that the seed supply and demand relationship would improve this year. Some analysts in the agricultural materials industry, based on the bottoming-out situation of the industry's economic operation and various favorable conditions, predict that the seed industry will bottom out and rebound in the third quarter, but some people in seed companies believe that the risks in the seed industry market have not yet been fully released, and the destocking and capacity reduction of the two hybrid crops have not yet been completed. Which view is more well-founded? Where does the seed market's wind vane point? Readers are invited to pay attention and think.
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Low profitability of soybean cultivation, farmers are not very motivated to grow soybeans
The third day of the survey, the sun was shining brightly. The survey team set off from Fujin, passed through Tongjiang, and finally arrived at Jiamusi. By interviewing local traders and farmers, we obtained first-hand information. In addition, the survey team members went deep into the fields and conducted an on-site
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