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Poverty alleviation and assistance: from back-to-back to hand-in-hand
After several consecutive days of gloom, the weather finally cleared up, and the chill in the mountain hollow was swept away. At the demonstration base of the Xingnong Chinese Medicinal Herbs Cooperative in Huibao Village, Daoba Town, Yinjiang County, Guizhou Province, the Atractylodes macrocephala planted at the beginning of the year had reached harvest time. On the slope, several farmers had their jackets open, straining with effort as each Atractylodes macrocephala plant was pulled up by the roots, the soil knocked off, and the tubers that had slept for nearly a year were nourished plump and endearingly sturdy.
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Chinese farmers are returning to the essence of a profession
Chinese farmers are returning to the professional essence that the term represents, and increasingly losing the meaning of identity in the traditional context. It can be said that the traditional Chinese concept of "farmer" is changing. From the stratification of scholars, farmers, artisans and merchants a thousand years ago, to the current distinction between
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New round of returning farmland to forest and grassland receives strong support from the Ministry of Finance
According to the "Overall Plan for the New Round of Returning Farmland to Forest and Grassland", in 2015 the state arranged a new round of tasks for returning farmland to forest and grassland of 10 million mu, mainly concentrated in 18 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) including Hebei and Inner Mongolia, as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, of which: 9.4 million mu to forest
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Agricultural development needs to shift from grain supply to the pursuit of economic returns
Advancing agricultural modernization and transforming the agricultural development model are the focus of China's 13th Five-Year Plan for agriculture. How should agricultural development transform its model under the 13th Five-Year Plan? In the view of Li Jieren, Party Secretary of the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the extensive production that used to pursue output above all, and the low efficiency brought by excessively dispersed smallholder production, both urgently require a transformation of the model.
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With apple-growing skills, returning home to grow apples beats a 10,000-yuan monthly salary
Li Qingjun often spends time with fruit growers, discussing apple-growing knowledge. Photo provided by the interviewee. Our reporter Li Jing. He once worked at a listed company in Shenzhen, engaged in securities and investment and financing work, with a monthly salary of over 10,000 yuan. This white-collar worker whom everyone envied chose to return
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New Golden Vegetable Variety in Jixian County Brings High Returns, Boosting Agricultural Output and Income
In recent years, Jixian County has actively developed green, ecological and efficient modern urban agriculture, focusing on building Jixian agricultural products. A batch of distinctive agricultural projects with high technical thresholds and high returns have developed rapidly, with broad market prospects, effectively promoting farmers' income growth and prosperity. Recently,
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Small wood ear mushrooms in Yong'an, Fujian turn into golden ingots of prosperity
Recently, in the wood ear mushroom greenhouse of the Jinzhong Edible Fungi Farmers' Cooperative in Huangkeng Village, Hongtian Town, Yong'an City, Fujian Province, edible fungi experts were guiding villager Cai Changyang in cultivating wood ear mushrooms. This year, because the climate has been warm, it has been very suitable for the growth of wood ear mushrooms. Yong'an wood ear mushrooms have had the highest finished-product rate and the best growth in years
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Edible Mushrooms Grown in Idle Tobacco Curing Barns Bring Good Returns to Tobacco Farmers in Shanghang, Fujian
Shanghang County in Fujian Province is one of the key tobacco-producing counties in China, with over a thousand intensive tobacco curing barns and several thousand curing rooms; however, the curing period lasts only four months from May to August, leaving the remaining eight months idle with low utilisation rates. To improve the utilisation rate of the curing barns and realise the benefits of construction investment, the Sanfeng Tobacco Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Lupeng She Ethnic Township, Shanghang County began trials in the autumn and winter of 2014, growing wood ear mushrooms and oyster mushrooms in the idle intensive curing barns, achieving initial success and good returns.
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Yucheng Turns Vegetable Waste into Treasure, Boosting Green Development of the Vegetable Industry
[ Introduction China Vegetable Network ] Mealworms can feed on all kinds of vegetable waste, and vegetable trimmings are especially their preferred food. Using mealworms to process vegetable trimmings through their digestive conversion is a biological transformation process that turns low-value vegetable trimmings into high-value-added insect protein
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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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