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Marker-assisted selection will become the main direction of future breeding
Conventional breeding methods have limitations such as genetic variation and genome hybridization; in principle, these limitations can be overcome through genetic engineering methods (such as recombinant DNA). Using these methods, genes with defined functions can be cloned and introduced into different species in a rapid and highly specialized manner.
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Small grains also have a big future: why are farmers unwilling to grow them?
When people talk about miscellaneous grains, they habitually attach the word "small" to them. Compared with field crops, miscellaneous grains are mainly intercropped along ditch edges and embankments and on dry slopes in mountainous areas, with small planting areas, and they are not staple foods, so they are called "small miscellaneous grains." In the past, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, once widely grew small miscellaneous grains, especially intercropped with cotton. But now, cotton fields in Gaoqing County have shrunk sharply, and the area of miscellaneous grains has plummeted accordingly. The once-flourishing scene of every household growing cotton and every household enjoying the fragrance of miscellaneous grains is hard to see again.
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China's 30 million mu of coastal tidal flats will become a reserve grain barn
These are now the last few days of rice harvest. At Shuntai Farm in Sheyang County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, on the shore of the Yellow Sea, a formerly abandoned saltworks has become ten thousand mu of rice paddies, with a salt content above 3 and as high as 8, and only wild salt-tolerant plants such as seepweed, reeds and triangular bulrush on the field ridges.
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Agriculture is aging rapidly - who will feed us in the future?
Not long ago, at the Southern Seed Industry Exchange Conference, the participants were basically agricultural people over fifty years old. In front of the booth of the China Seed Industry Online Exchange Exhibition, many agricultural people did not know how to scan the WeChat QR code. Nowadays, in an era of increasingly developed technology, ag
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China's first deep-sea aquaculture platform will begin construction
Recently, the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beiche Ship and Marine Engineering Development Co., Ltd., and Shanghai Chonghe Industrial Co., Ltd. signed a tripartite strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing, marking that China's first deep-sea aquaculture platform project has entered a stage of substantive advancement.
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Future seed industry sales are expected to rise to over 90 billion yuan
In the process of global economic integration, numerous sustained growth opportunities and an open environment have enabled China to develop into one of the largest seed markets in the world. China's seed industry has developed into one of the most market-oriented industries in the agricultural sector, and a diversified structure of seed industry entities has basically taken shape
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China's specialty economic forest area will exceed 40 million hectares in 2020
The State Forestry Administration recently issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Development of the Specialty Economic Forest Industry," proposing that by 2020, the newly added planting area of specialty economic forests reach 8.1 million hectares, and the total area of economic forests increase by 24% compared with 2010, reaching 41 million hectares. The Opinions make clear that full
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Foreign media: China to revise grain import quota system to combat corruption
Sina Finance News, Beijing, November 21 morning news - Reuters reports that according to Chinese officials and industry insiders, China plans to revise its grain import quota system to combat related corruption and control the national grain reserves. Fang, Deputy Director of the Agricultural Economy Department of China's National Development and Reform Commission
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Corn starch futures will drive the upgrading and development of China's corn industry chain
After a long wait, corn starch has finally been approved for listing, which means the futures market will provide new guaranteed support for the extension and development of the corn processing industry. On the 21st, a spokesperson for the China Securities Regulatory Commission stated that the CSRC has approved the Dalian Commodity Exchange
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Modern agriculture will take center stage: Vice Minister of Science and Technology Zhang Laiwu talks about the new normal
The Chinese economy is undergoing profound changes, and we are once again standing at a new historical starting point. In the near future, modern agricultural parks, modern agricultural entrepreneurs, professional farmers, and agricultural science and innovation investment - these institutions that form communities of shared interest with agriculture and start businesses along the modern agricultural industry chain
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