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State Cut to Corn Temporary Storage Price Triggers Market Fluctuations
Recently, Hua Shujun, a large-scale corn grower in Gaojia Village, Songyuan City, Jilin Province, often goes to the state reserve warehouse near the village to inquire about corn purchase prices and intake conditions. Besides farming, Hua Shujun also runs a planting cooperative. This year, all of the more than 60 member households planted
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Grain output may slump due to difficulties in selling grain and losses in growing it
From the start of the summer grain purchase season to the concentrated marketing of autumn grain, reporters conducting sustained follow-up interviews along several major producing provinces including Henan and Hubei found that, because of consecutive years of bumper grain harvests and the continuous one-way rise in the floor purchase price, the current grain circulation and procurement-storage links show many new trends: in some areas
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What are the main triggering factors of agriculture-related corruption?
Important findings: 75.2% of respondents said that agriculture-related corruption is widespread in their region; 44.2% of respondents said that agriculture-related corruption occurs more often among township-level officials. At present, agriculture-related corruption problems occur more often in new rural construction (57.
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Increasingly Frequent Extreme Weather May Trigger Food Crises in Developing Countries
According to a November 26 report by CNA, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on the 26th that drought, floods and other extreme weather have become increasingly frequent and severe over the past 30 years, and will raise the threat to food security in developing countries. In its report, the FAO pointed out that from 2003 to 2013, natural
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Serious "non-grain" phenomenon in land transfers draws attention
The logical endpoint of capital going to the countryside, paying land rent costs and transferring land, is increasingly serious non-grain operation. On July 14, the Shaanxi Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics released survey results showing that the non-grain phenomenon in transferred land in Shaanxi Province is serious, with only 16.7% of land transferred to households growing
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Media: Yield loss and total crop failure not the fault of super rice; rice blast epidemic is the trigger
[Finance Exclusive]Yield loss and total crop failure: the fault is not with super rice. The event half a year ago in Anhui, where ten thousand mu of super rice suffered yield loss and total crop failure, triggered strong public attention to super rice. However, according to a reporter from Caijing, in this event, the local rice blast epidemic was the trigger
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Super hybrid rice crop failure raises questions; Longping High-Tech responds: historic low temperatures triggered rice blast
On July 30, 2013, Academician Yuan Longping inspects the growth of super hybrid rice in Shucheng County, Anhui Province. Photo/CFP Recently, Longping High-Tech's super rice Liangyou 0293, affected by rice blast, suffered large-scale total crop failure in Anhui, a major agricultural province, and affected farmers questioned the seed production
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Why a handful of village officials become the powder keg of mass incidents
Governing village officials' absolute power through the rule of law and institutional means is the fundamental remedy for correcting violations of discipline and law by village officials. There is a film called "Don't Take Yourself Not As a Cadre," in which Feng Gong plays Wang Xi, a workshop section chief at a textile factory. His rank is not high, but he strictly
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Will the widening price gap between domestic and imported grain trigger a repeat of the soybean crisis?
If you control oil, you control all nations; if you control grain, you control all people. As former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said, food security is not only a major issue of great concern in the halls of power, but also an unavoidable question for villagers in the countryside as to whether they can have enough to eat and drink.
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How Do Land Policies Trigger Land Violations?
Our country is the strictest in the world in implementing a land management system, yet in real life, land violations still occur frequently in some places. Why? Over the past two years, the author visited a number of land violation cases in multiple locations and found that the main cause of land violations is that some local officials collude with relevant leaders of the land and resources departments, using various land policies as a pretext to deceive higher-level governments and farmers. Because these violators not only reap huge profits after the land violation but can also evade legal liability, and some even use this to advance their careers. This has led to a vicious cycle between land violations and political achievement "construction."
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