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China Becomes the World's Largest Producer and Consumer of Potatoes, Pushing Forward the Industrialization of Potatoes as a Staple Food
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing ever higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time - the potato is a major food that is nutritious and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat, and
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How Can Traditional Agriculture Be Saved? An Analysis of the Way Forward and Countermeasures
The State Council executive meeting on July 22, 2015 arranged to accelerate the transformation of the agricultural development model and take the path of safe, efficient and green development. Li Keqiang pointed out that, looking across the development paths of agricultural modernization in developed countries, they generally develop agriculture in an industrial way. If agriculture does not move toward
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Going forward, the wheat market mechanism will play a further role
New wheat market performs steadily In mid-to-late July, when reporters visited grain enterprises in major wheat-producing areas such as Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, they found that the phenomenon commonly seen in previous years of market players driving up prices to scramble for grain sources was gone. At many sites for purchasing wheat for the temporary state reserve, grain brokers and traders coming to sell grain lined up in an orderly way to be weighed, put into storage and settled. At the grain collection points set up by small vendors and grain brokers, reporters saw a steady stream of small horse-drawn carts bringing farmers to sell grain.
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Large-scale farming profits rely entirely on subsidies and rewards, with hidden traps
Does large-scale agriculture necessarily bring economies of scale? In many people's understanding, this is hardly even a question, but the facts are not so. While too small a planting scale certainly makes it hard to earn much profit, too large a planting scale may also yield false profits. So-called false profits
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Agriculture says goodbye to the old traditional path, transforms toward modern agriculture
In recent years, China's agricultural and rural development has achieved tremendous accomplishments, but it must also be recognized that the various risks and challenges facing agricultural development are accumulating and converging. Especially after "eleven consecutive years of growth" in grain production, the situation for transforming the agricultural development model has become even more urgent. If the traditional agricultural
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Mechanization is the only fundamental way forward for rapeseed production
The fundamental way forward for rapeseed production lies in mechanization - this is the broad consensus of agricultural machinery and agronomy experts at the Rapeseed Production Mechanization Technology Seminar. On August 11, the Rapeseed Production Mechanization Technology Seminar was held in Beijing. At the meeting, results were released from rapeseed main production areas in 4 provinces of our country
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Only when pro-farmer policies are publicized to every household can farmers truly benefit
Nowadays, farmers are already very familiar with the grain subsidy policy, but when it comes to pro-farmer policies for vegetables, aquaculture, livestock and poultry, forestry and fruit, and agricultural product processing, they either have only a partial understanding or have never even heard of them. This is because these subsidy policies require a certain scale of production and investment in production facilities
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Grassland Ecological Compensation and Award Policy Introduces Third-Party Assessment Mechanism for the First Time
This year marks the final year of the first implementation cycle of the grassland compensation and award policy. Does the design of this policy actually fit the realities of grassland pastoral areas? How well has it been implemented? What results have been achieved, and what problems remain? Recently, the grassland compensation and award policy assessment symposium
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Will agricultural subsidies favor grain growers? There are more policy adjustments to come
From the pilot target price subsidy program, to the integration of the three subsidies (improved seed subsidy, direct grain-growing subsidy, and agricultural input subsidy) into the agricultural support and protection subsidy, and then to the adjustment of fishery fuel price subsidies. At China's central level, agricultural subsidy policy is undergoing a series of major
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China's 2015/16 corn production estimate revised downward
The relevant agency has revised its forecast for China's 2015/16 corn production downward to 229 million tons, 3 million tons lower than the earlier forecast, due to drought affecting some production areas in Northeast China. However, even after the downward revision, corn production still set a record high, up from the previous year's output
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