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Why is adjusting the grain purchase and storage policy imperative?
The current inversion of domestic and international grain prices has led to massive grain imports, while domestic production costs remain high; the room for protecting farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain simply by raising the minimum purchase price is getting smaller and smaller. Rationalizing the relationship between grain prices and the market has become a consensus, but the steps of adjustment should
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How to ensure grain farmers do not lose out when grain prices fall
Improve the comprehensive grain production capacity, push agricultural development from being mainly about quantity growth to placing equal emphasis on quantity, quality and efficiency, achieve grain storage in the land and grain storage in technology, and ensure grain security for the world. Just as farmers were celebrating a bumper autumn grain harvest, they suddenly encountered rather sharp fluctuations in grain prices.
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To do a good job in agriculture, rural areas and farmers, we must attach importance to fostering model examples
Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out: "Being good at fostering model examples, letting them lead the way and play a demonstrating role, has always been an important working method of our Party." In the work on "agriculture, rural areas and farmers," we should especially attach importance to fostering model examples and be good at doing so. How to make rural areas beautiful, how to make agriculture strong,
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It Is Hard to Sustain the Continuous Increase of Domestic Grain Procurement Prices, and the Processing Industry Is Barely Alive
The agricultural products market is now very bad. Cargill, the world's largest grain trader, has been reported to be laying off workers. This report, which Cargill has already denied, said that due to the agricultural economic downturn, Cargill may lay off as many as 4000 people, about 2.5% of its total workforce. Cargill
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How is vegetable waste turned into treasure? This is how Yucheng, Shandong does it
Recently, the reporter followed staff from the Yucheng Vegetable Bureau into the Yangshi Insect Farming Base in Fangsi Town. On rows of iron racks were stacked layer upon layer of paper trays. Staff pulled out a paper tray, and inside a layer of wheat bran were densely packed small insects, wriggling one by one.
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Fresh vegetables hitch a ride on the internet and get delivered to the door
Recently, the reporter came to the Lükang Pollution-Free Vegetable Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Luquan District, Shijiazhuang, where the vegetables grown hitch a ride on the internet and enter the community through the farm-to-home docking model, realizing a new "internet + vegetables" e-commerce sales model. What we operate is a mem
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Vegetable prices in Huai'an, Jiangsu continue to rise for two weeks, with high-priced vegetables dominating
Vegetable prices in the urban area of Huai'an, Jiangsu Province rose modestly for a second consecutive week. Yesterday, monitoring data from the Municipal Price Monitoring Center showed that the average price of the 32 kinds of vegetables monitored in the urban area rose slightly by 0.7 percentage points last week, with the current price at about 3.5 yuan/500 grams. Judging from recent trends, affected by earlier rain and snow weather, vegetable prices in the urban area are currently in a relatively stable period after climbing to a high level.
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Nantong City, Jiangsu, Solidly Advances the Introduction of New Varieties
In order to accelerate the renewal rate of new varieties and serve Nantong's agricultural production, the Nantong City Seed Management Station directly introduced a record number of new crop varieties in 2015. In 2015, the Nantong City Seed Management Station organized the introduction of 125 crop varieties of various types (96 last year), and organized intermediate trials at 39 (36 last year) site-times; among these, for spring and summer sown crops - rice, corn, cotton, watermelon, spring soybean, and summer soybean - there were 41 new varieties and 24 trial site-times; for autumn sown barley and wheat there were 14 varieties and 7 trial site-times, and for rapeseed there were 70 varieties and 8 trial site-times.
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Ministry of Agriculture meeting adopts opinions on agricultural science and technology innovation and extension to implement Document No. 1
Han Changfu chairs an executive meeting of the Ministry of Agriculture, stressing the need to push for major breakthroughs in agricultural science and technology innovation and extension. Our reporter Zhao Jingping reports: On June 13, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu chaired an executive meeting to thoroughly implement the central Document No. 1 and study and arrange the further
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Capital Going to the Countryside to Rent Land Becomes a Common Phenomenon, Central No. 1 Document Tightens Related Policies
At the start of 2013, will the Central No. 1 Document focus on the "three rural issues" for the tenth consecutive year? This possibility is gradually becoming a consensus. Since 2003, the documents discussed and approved at the Central Rural Work Conference have all become the Central No. 1 Document of the following year. Recently, a Caijing reporter learned from
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