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Can Potatoes Be Grown on Mars? NASA Will Conduct an Experiment
In the Hollywood film "Mission to Mars," the botanist played by leading man Matt Damon tries to grow potatoes on Mars, and this approach may soon become reality. According to a December 23 report by Hong Kong, China's Wen Wei Po, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), together with Peru's International Potato Center (CIP), will
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Declining Net Returns from Grain Farming: Who Will Grow the Grain Concerns National Food Security
For a long time, "who will grow the grain" has been an extremely important topic, since it concerns national food security. But it also seems not to be a problem, because as long as grain farming is worthwhile, someone will naturally grow it. So "who will grow the grain" ultimately comes down to how to ensure that grain farming is profitable, yet the grim reality is truly worrying.
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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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Three Types of Fertilizer Will Become Market Favorites, Worth Growers' Attention
According to a recent forecast by the agricultural materials department, 3 types of fertilizer will sell well on the market in the future. First, special-purpose fertilizer for vegetables and fruits. The prices of China's bulk agricultural products such as rice, wheat, corn and soybeans are currently 10%-70% higher than those on the international market, and their competitiveness in the international market is weak.
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Harvester market basically saturated, grain processing machinery set to become growth hotspot
The biggest difference between this year's summer harvest and summer planting and the past lies in the high level of mechanization. Wheat is now basically all machine-harvested, and summer planting is also mainly done by machine. Agricultural machinery has gradually become the main player in agricultural production and is gradually becoming the development direction of agriculture in the future. Today's Agricultural Economy
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Cotton farming weighed down by internal and external troubles: soon no one will grow it
This is the sentence that Du Min, a scientist in the economics post of the National Cotton Industry Technology System and a researcher at the Rural Economy Research Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, has heard most and said most often recently. In recent years, China's cotton planting area has plummeted. According to the latest national cotton
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Small-packaged oil will become a new profit growth point for the grain and oil industry
Under the dual pressure of falling soybean prices and sluggish consumer demand, small-packaged oil at retail terminals has nevertheless been one of the few success stories. Xiwang Foodstuffs' recently launched sunflower seed oil and olive oil have seen rapid sales growth, with outstanding results. As consumption levels rise, the consumption of small-packaged oil
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China's coarse grain and soybean imports to grow by more than 40% over the next decade
By 2024, China's net imports of coarse grains and soybeans may increase by 46% and 40% respectively compared with current levels. The report said that for at least the past decade, China has been a net importer of cotton, soybeans, rapeseed, barley, soybean oil and palm oil. Since 2008/09
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What new economic growth points will agricultural modernization bring
Under the new normal, vigorously developing agricultural modernization will provide new impetus for China's stable economic growth. And agricultural industrialization is the foundation and support of agricultural modernization. In recent years, China's agriculture has achieved good results, and grain production has achieved an unparalleled eleven consecutive
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Asia-Pacific feed output expected to keep growing
The latest survey by the Miels organization points out that in 2013 the average annual growth rate of global compound feed was 1.1% (963 million tons), while in 2009 and 2011 the average annual growth rates of global compound feed were 1.1% and 1.5% respectively.
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