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Town-to-city conversion requires accelerated reform of supporting systems
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development jointly issued a notice on comprehensive pilot projects for new-type urbanization, requiring each province to select eligible cities and towns at different levels as pilot projects to report to the NDRC, especially for towns with a population of over 100,000
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How can the grain price inversion be resolved? Encourage more entities to store grain
Currently, tight warehouse capacity in major grain-producing areas has caused problems for grain procurement. The main reason for the tight warehouse capacity is that grain has been harvested abundantly for many consecutive years, and grain depots everywhere are full to overflowing. A deeper reason is that, under the existing grain procurement and sales policy, grain prices have continued to rise for many years
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Minister of Agriculture: Farmland must never be converted to non-agricultural use; farmers may move into non-agricultural work
Qiushi, Issue 19 of 2014, published a signed article by Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu, stating that the national food security strategy under the new situation must be fully implemented. The article points out that we must resolutely hold the lifeline of farmland. This is where the lifeblood of national food security lies. Farmland
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Can the target price system break the inversion of domestic and international grain prices?
In 2012, Australian wheat was 2,600 to 2,700 yuan per ton. In the same year, China's domestic wheat price was somewhat higher, about 200 yuan more per ton. Now the price has risen again. The delivered price of the domestic wheat that came in this time in Shandong has already climbed to 2,900 yuan per ton. Recently, a China Youth Daily reporter
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How the South-to-North Water Diversion Project Helps the Central Plains Granary Safeguard China's Food Security
In 2014, Henan, the granary of the Central Plains, once again celebrated a bumper summer grain harvest, achieving twelve consecutive years of increase. However, behind the consecutive years of bumper harvests, the hidden worries about agricultural water resources have become increasingly prominent, with North China, the Central Plains and other regions suffering severe droughts for many consecutive years. Professionals point out that the South-to-North
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Grain purchase policy accelerates marketization due to inverted production-sales relationship
The latest national grain production data released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2014 the national total grain output was 607.1 million tons, an increase of 0.9%. At the same time, net imports of China's three major staple grains - rice, corn and wheat - have become the norm. Statistics show that over the past 3 years, corn,
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Domestic and international agricultural product price inversions will become the norm for a period of time
Market-oriented driving to stabilize grain production, increase incomes, improve quality and efficiency In 2014, China's agricultural product supply was generally sufficient, grain prices rose slightly amid stable government regulation, cotton, oilseeds and sugar continued to fall, and fresh agricultural products fluctuated seasonally. In international bulk agricultural products prices
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National Agricultural Mechanization Conference Calls for Accelerating the Creation of an Upgraded Version of Agricultural Mechanization Development
On January 13-14, the National Agricultural Mechanization Work Conference was held in Nanning, Guangxi. Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin pointed out that it is necessary to accurately grasp the new characteristics and new requirements under the new normal, and fully recognize the urgency, difficulty and long-term nature of improving the quality and efficiency of agricultural mechanization and its transformation and upgrading.
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Grain-price conversion faces challenges: can land transfer achieve win-win outcomes for all parties?
In rural land transfer, the "grain-price conversion" model is generally adopted, whereby after villagers transfer their land, the land rent is calculated at the market price equivalent of a certain number of jin of rice per mu. A reporter's frontline investigation in rural Sichuan found that some villagers are already dissatisfied with this model, and Sichuan has explored various forms of benefit-sharing linkages such as land equity participation, seasonal sharing, and reverse leasing and subcontracting, to solve the difficulty of sharing benefits between villagers and operating entities.
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More paddy fields in southwest China converted from water to dry land, undermining disaster resilience and the ecological environment
Paddy fields seen everywhere in southwest China are facing a crisis: more and more are being converted from water to dry land, more are being left abandoned, and their number keeps shrinking. This not only directly affects agricultural production but, more importantly, paddy fields in the southwest also serve as a huge water conservation area, and their destruction poses no small hidden risk to agriculture
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