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The phenomenon of young people being unwilling to return to their hometowns to farm should arouse vigilance
What is preventing young people who go out to work from being willing to return to their hometowns to farm? Today, this is not a topic that is deliberately made to sound profound. When rural young people prepare for their careers, they seldom take becoming a professional farmer as a future goal. Apart from those born in the 1950s and some born in the 1960s, among the village people who consciously choose to be a professional farmer, those born in the 1970s are unwilling, those born in the 1980s do not know how, and those born in the 1990s do not even discuss it.
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China's comprehensive agricultural mechanization level will exceed 61% this year
Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said on the 3rd that the comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvesting nationwide will exceed 61% this year, and China's agricultural production has shifted from relying mainly on human and animal power to a historic new stage dominated by mechanization. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that by 2020, China's comprehensive mechanization level of crop cultivation and harvesting
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Experts estimate that China's corn production will drop by about 12 billion jin in 2014
At the 2014 National Coarse Grains and Corn Market Analysis and Production-Marketing Linkage Conference held recently in Nanchang, relevant experts analyzed and concluded: China's total corn output in 2014 is expected to be about 424.6 billion jin, a decrease of about 12 billion jin from the previous year, a decline of 2.75%. Experts estimate that China's corn production will drop by about
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China's total agricultural machinery power to reach 1.05 billion kilowatts in 2014
Economic Daily, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang) Today, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress jointly held a symposium in Beijing on the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Law on the Promotion of Agricultural Mechanization. Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu said that over the 10 years since the law was implemented, the central
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14 cities take the lead in designating permanent basic farmland on urban fringes, urban construction must go around it
The Ministry of Land and Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture recently jointly issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Designation of Permanent Basic Farmland" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), requiring that, on the basis of existing work on designating permanent basic farmland, high-quality farmland around towns and along transportation lines that is currently vulnerable to
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Low-priced nursery stock is piling up: when will it finally sell well?
With the real estate market in continued downturn and municipal engineering projects shelved, the nursery stock industry, which was booming just a few years ago, has taken a big hit. Many seedling growers complain that their nursery stock cannot be sold and look everywhere for opportunities to sell it. Some impatient, impulsive people even cut down the seedlings they worked so hard to cultivate
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Maintain the half-work half-farming self-circulation system well, and rural stability will be guaranteed
Who will farm the land? Probably no other modern major country cares about this issue as much as China does. The judgment reached after synthesizing information from all sides is that this problem has developed to a very severe degree and must be solved quickly; the method is to support family farms, encourage
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The 12th China International Agricultural Trade Fair will be held in Qingdao, Shandong
The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that the 12th China International Agricultural Trade Fair and the 3rd Shandong Agricultural Trade Fair will be held from October 25 to 28 at the Qingdao International Convention and Exhibition Center in Shandong Province. The total exhibition area of this Agricultural Trade Fair is more than 60,000 sq m, of which the indoor exhibition area is 56,000 sq m
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Cotton price reform opens up space for futures market innovation, price fluctuations will become the norm
The most core effect released by the cotton target price reform pilot is that the market mechanism is gradually playing a decisive role in cotton price formation. Zhang Fan, chairman of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, said this at the recently held 2014 Zhengzhou Agricultural Products (Cotton) Futures Forum. He introduced
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China is set to stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, with the volume expected to reach about 4
Industry analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year, the Chinese government may stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, because domestic demand is unlikely to recover quickly and a bumper harvest has left supply ample. China is the world's second-largest corn consumer; analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year
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