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Xiji, Ningxia Accelerates the Renewal and Upgrading of Improved Potato Varieties
In 2015, Xiji County seized the opportunity of the state launching the strategy of making potatoes a staple food and the autonomous region designating Xiji as a pilot county for making potatoes a staple food, strengthened the implementation of measures, and promoted the transformation and upgrading of the potato industry. First, increase funding input. It mainly supported the potato three
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Multiple seed companies accelerate commercial breeding: good varieties fear no bad market
This year's spring and summer planting seed sales season, for seed companies and the entire industry, is both the worst of times and the best of times. The market is poor, and heavy inventory pressure remains the biggest difficulty commonly faced by seed companies. Taking corn seed as an example, although the hybrid corn seed production area has fallen sharply for two consecutive years and inventory has dropped to 1 billion kg, based on the national hybrid corn seed production area and inventory change trends, changes in corn seed inventory generally lag behind changes in seed production area by about two years. According to this pattern, the first quarter of this year exactly corresponds to the peak in seed production area two years ago.
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International Soy Growers Alliance Lobbies China to Approve Genetically Modified Varieties
On April 21, at the 2015 Biotechnology and Global Soy Trade Forum held in Beijing by the International Soy Growers Alliance (ISGA), a 21st Century Business Herald reporter learned through an interview that the International Soy Growers Alliance will communicate with China's Ministry of Agriculture, hoping that China's policy authorities
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Behind the Super Rice Crop Failure: Institutional Flaws and the Variety's Own Weaknesses
In mid-April, the media successively published reports on the yield reduction and total crop failure of ten thousand mu of "Liangyou 0293" hybrid rice in Anhui last October, drawing public attention to super rice. Behind this seemingly accidental incident, the flaws of China's agricultural insurance and relief systems are highlighted, and it also reflects
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The number of major crop varieties subject to approval was reduced from 28 to 5
On April 20, the much-anticipated draft amendment to the Seed Law was first submitted to the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress for deliberation. The draft comprehensively regulates aspects such as strengthening the protection of germplasm resources, improving the institutional mechanisms for breeding innovation, and strengthening oversight and management of the seed industry. Germplasm resources are the material foundation of modern
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Afraid of buying fake seeds, farmers try multiple varieties like running experiments
Li Zhongming, a farmer from Qing'an County in Suihua City, went around more than 10 dealerships in the Heilongjiang Provincial Seed Market but still could not find suitable seeds. Li Zhongming told the Economic Information Daily reporter that his family has more than 4 shang (one shang equals 15 mu) of land, and in recent years he would choose
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Is the decline of rural areas really unavoidable?
Since industrialization, it has been a very common phenomenon for various resources to flow from rural areas to industry and cities. As long as industrialization is implemented, rural change is unavoidable. And to achieve a balanced state between rural and urban areas, the most fundamental thing is to narrow the cultural
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Assessment of Super Rice Variety Adaptability Urgently Needs Strengthening
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 14th that the requirements for super rice are high yield, high quality, high efficiency, and also resistance. However, some super rice varieties are suitable for specific regions, and when they are introduced to other regions, their shortcomings become apparent. Regarding the recent
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Forage maize varieties are world-leading, so why are they hard to promote?
This year's Central Document No. 1 pointed out that it is necessary to accelerate the development of the grass-livestock industry, support the planting of forage crops such as silage maize and alfalfa, carry out pilot projects for converting grain to feed and combining planting with breeding, and promote the coordinated development of the three-way planting structure of grain, cash crops and forage. Silage maize,
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Cracking Down on Seed Label Switching and Infringement: The Crime of Infringing New Plant Variety Rights Should Be Criminalized
●Add a provision to Chapter III, Section 7 of the Criminal Law: Without the permission of the variety rights holder, producing or selling a protected variety, where the circumstances are serious, shall be punishable by fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or control, and concurrently or alternatively by a fine; where the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three
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