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China's organic vegetable market is large, but farmers need to invest with caution
The 2015 China International Food Safety and Innovation Technology Exhibition opened in Beijing on June 11. The three-day exhibition attracted nearly a hundred companies, including well-known domestic and international enterprises such as COFCO, Zhonghe, and Nestle. At the exhibition, food companies, regardless of size,
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How can the "vegetable basket" be developed to achieve balanced supply?
In recent years, all localities have made coordinated efforts to advance a new round of "vegetable basket" development, promoting stable production growth, an increasingly rich variety of products, steadily improving quality, and a continuously improving market system, generally safeguarding vegetable supply and market stability. However, with the development of urbanization, all localities are also facing considerable pressure in
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Budget meat and vegetable stores see business slump, low-profit competition offers no way out
Can budget meat and vegetable stores attract people just by being cheap? Not necessarily. Recently, chain budget stores in Guangzhou have run into this problem. The store manager tried many methods: running promotions, but people came in one wave and then left; slashing the price of one type of rice, but because oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar did not drop in price, it still failed to attract people; the pork counter sat empty, and even with rent halved, no one came. Some experts say that in recent years this kind of homogenized meat and vegetable store has expanded in large numbers, lacking distinctive features, so poor operation is only to be expected. Budget meat and vegetable stores relying solely on low-profit "hand-to-hand combat" have no way out.
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Cool-climate vegetables cool down the summer vegetable market
Summer and autumn cool-climate vegetables refer to vegetables produced in high-altitude (high mountain, plateau) and high-latitude cool regions. Every year from July to September, affected by the transition between vegetable production cycles, summer high temperatures, and disastrous weather such as typhoons and torrential rain, many areas in South China, Jiangnan, and the Huang-Huai River basin
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How many hurdles must the potato clear to go from vegetable to staple food
On the plate it is a vegetable, in the bowl it is a staple food; for the tiny potato to make its counterattack transformation, how many hurdles must it still clear? In 2014, China's potato planting area and output each accounted for about 1/4 of the world's total, making it already the world's largest producer and consumer. This year, China launched the strategy for the development of potato staple food products and the industry, taking the potato, which is "water-saving, fertilizer-saving, pesticide-saving and labor-saving" to grow and nutritionally "perfect in every way," as a supplement to the three major staple foods of corn, rice and wheat for related product development.
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Fertilizer application rates for fruit trees and vegetables in China have exceeded safe levels
The State Council Information Office held a press conference this morning, at which Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin briefed on the work related to the prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution. When answering a reporter's question about farmers frequently and widely using agricultural film, pesticides and chemical fertilizers in large amounts, causing serious pollution
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Can you eat off-season fruits and vegetables? Read this and you will understand
Today, many people who pursue an organic lifestyle strongly emphasize one phrase: eat only what is in season. For example, eat loquats in spring, watermelon in summer, apples in autumn, and radishes in winter. They believe that off-season fruits and vegetables are very likely grown using some kind of chemical method
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Vegetable planting area slightly decreased at the end of July, supply guaranteed in August
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's Vegetable Production Information Network, vegetable supply in July decreased both year-on-year and month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose year-on-year and remained flat month-on-month. In August, the overall vegetable supply is expected to be guaranteed, with farm-gate wholesale prices trending upward steadily. In July, vegetable supply entered the summer slack season
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Why do organic vegetables remain so expensive?
For higher food production standards, are you willing to buy organic vegetables that cost three to five times more than ordinary vegetables? Because food safety problems keep appearing, all kinds of "organic vegetables," "pollution-free vegetables" and "green vegetables" have emerged. As soon as these vegetables "come
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How to Grow Autumn and Winter Vegetables? The Ministry of Agriculture Issues National Production Technology Guidance
Editor's note: Once White Dew has passed, the important period for planting autumn and winter vegetables arrives once again. Whether this crop is grown well or not has a direct bearing on the vegetable supply for this autumn and winter and for next spring, and on the annual income of vegetable growers. Compared with spring vegetables, autumn and winter temperatures are low,
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