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Pandemic Pushes Traditional Agriculture to Transform, Agricultural E-commerce Sees New Opportunities
As COVID-19 entered community transmission, a level 3 alert was implemented across Taiwan, China, schools suspended classes, companies and businesses switched to remote work, and small farmers everywhere saw their livelihoods hit hard. With people staying at home, various organic produce e-commerce platforms provided services at the right time, with sales growing severalfold; consumers buying directly
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Grape orders plummet by 70 percent, small farmers call for bulk group purchases by companies and communities
Grapes hang heavy on the vines, yet farmers in Dacun, Changhua pick them with great anxiety. After the domestic pandemic alert was raised to Level 3, people's consumption shifted from physical stores to online, causing orders from restaurants and fruit shops to drop; when "Upstream and Downstream" actually asked farmers' associations and farmers in the production areas, it found that grapes in the Dacun area are mostly sold directly by farmers, with a small portion sold on their behalf by the farmers' association. With school closures, staggered work shifts and unstable logistics and delivery conditions, orders have fallen sharply for both the farmers' association and the farmers, with farmers' orders down by more than 70 percent. Last year's warm winter also caused grapes in Nantou to mature early, so the grapes from both areas clashed head-on, which is quite unfavorable for sales.
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United Daily News: Hualien "vegetable boxes" home delivery orders surge
The government is urging people not to go out unless necessary. The Hualien County Government is guiding the Shoufeng Township Farmers' Association and the Hualien City Farmers' Association to pack agricultural products into "vegetable boxes" and deliver them to consumers via home delivery; the New Taipei Agriculture Bureau, together with New Taipei's various farmers' associations, has also successively launched "cook-at-home combo packs", featuring fresh agricultural produce and dried goods.
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China Fresh Jujubes Proposed for Export to the United States: Pest Risk Analysis Completed
According to Perishablenews.com, the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has completed a pest risk analysis for the import of fresh jujubes from China and is currently receiving comments. After a comprehensive analysis, researchers at the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
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Can you make money raising softshell turtles? A homemade dog food recipe using turtle shells has super high profits
There is a new development direction for raising softshell turtles, do you know what it is? Would you like to learn about it? It might bring you new income. The dog at home would actively gnaw on the turtle shells, which surprised her greatly. To prevent the puppy from being stabbed while gnawing on the turtle bones, she ground up the turtle shells
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Belt and Road business opportunities benefit farmers in western China
Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, January 3 (Reporter Tu Guoxi) For farmer Meng Zezhi, New Year's holidays in previous years were part of the winter storage season, but this year's New Year holiday was somewhat different. He and more than 30 other agricultural cooperative representatives gathered for a meeting to prepare early for agricultural contracts worth tens of millions of yuan from Kazakhstan
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The Belt and Road Initiative Brings New Development Opportunities for the Agriculture and Food Industry
The "Belt and Road" strategy proposed by China covers one third of the world's sovereign states and involves nearly two thirds of the global population, making it the world's largest regional economic cooperation initiative. To realize this grand economic vision, it is completely impossible to rely on China alone.
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Leisure agriculture faces favorable development opportunities: how to choose a development model
In recent years, China's leisure agriculture has developed rapidly and become a new economic growth point. The development of leisure agriculture helps optimize the rural industrial structure, open up employment channels for farmers, advance agricultural industrialization, and promote the development and utilization of rural ecological and cultural resources, becoming an important way to
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How the livestock industry can seize transformation opportunities to achieve new improvements
Huai'an City is a major livestock production area in Jiangsu Province, and currently faces a good opportunity for the transformation from traditional livestock farming to modern livestock farming. How to seize the transformation opportunity and achieve a new improvement in the overall development level of the livestock industry is an important topic for Huai'an City's livestock work citywide in the future. To
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Over 90 percent of the early rice harvest is complete; this year's area is steady with a slight decrease, and per-unit yield is flat
Currently, over 90 percent of the national early rice harvest is complete. According to the Ministry of Agriculture's crop situation scheduling and experts' field yield measurement analysis, this year's early rice area is steady with a slight decrease, per-unit yield is flat with a slight increase, most main producing areas show a flat production trend, and the national total early rice output is expected to achieve another bumper harvest. This year's early rice production has been stable
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