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Higher output without higher income? Don't let a bumper harvest break farmers' hearts
Due to differences in geography and climate, when wheat sales and storage in the inland regions have already temporarily come to an end, Xinjiang's wheat is currently busy being sold outside the region. However, what is worrying is that although the wheat harvest was bumper, it cannot be transported out and is still piled up in the growers' farmyards
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Why international grain prices have fallen back to levels last seen 6 years ago
Without notice, international grain prices have returned to the low point seen during the 2008 financial crisis. The prices of wheat, corn, rice and soybeans have all fallen by more than 50% from the highs they rebounded to after the crisis. Although the drop in rice prices was less than 50%, because the rebound high during the crisis was not high enough, the current absolute price level is in fact substantially lower than the lowest level during the crisis.
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Efficient and ecological agriculture cannot be achieved without innovation-driven development
For agriculture to achieve high efficiency and ecology, it must fundamentally rely on innovation-driven development, which is mainly reflected in the following three aspects: First, innovation-driven science and technology systems. As we know, the current agricultural science and technology system is basically the science and technology system of chemical agriculture, because we rely on
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A healthy grain market cannot function without policy reform
This year's domestic grain harvest was bumper, but farmers are hardly pleased, because the sharp drop in grain prices could cause their incomes to fall steeply. Since early autumn, prices of corn and wheat in major grain-producing areas have all declined to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices has been pronounced, with farm-gate prices
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Why can't rural tourism do without farmers' participation?
"Rural tourism is good!" was the inscription personally written by Du Runsheng, former director of the Rural Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, on September 3 for the "China Modern Rural Tourism 30 Years Forum." This may have been the old man's last inscription. On September 19, "China Modern Rural Tourism
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Banning straw burning cannot succeed without supporting policies
Editor's note: Every harvest season, air pollution caused by burning straw always becomes a focus of attention. How can we comprehensively utilize this valuable biomass resource and avoid simply burning it all and creating a source of smog? Reporters from Economic Daily visited experts and scholars and went
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A long-term mechanism for compensating the interests of major grain-producing areas must be established without delay
In recent years, although the state has continuously increased support for production in major grain-producing areas, the problems of slow growth in the income of grain farmers and sluggish economic development in major producing areas still exist, affecting the enthusiasm of farmers for growing grain and of local governments for developing grain production. Under the new circumstances
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Modern agriculture cannot develop without financial service innovation
"For a long time, due to factors such as high risk and long benefit cycles, the difficulty and high cost of financing for agriculture, rural areas and farmers has become a commonplace problem. Constrained by this, it is difficult to expand the scale of agriculture and to renew equipment and technology, which seriously restricts the process of our country's agricultural modernization."
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Solving the problem of difficulty in selling grain, ensuring farmers can sell grain without worry
China's grain production has enjoyed consecutive years of bumper harvests, but consumption growth has slowed markedly, and domestic grain prices face considerable downward pressure overall. Thanks to measures such as the state's timely launch of purchasing and storage, which actively guided and stabilized market expectations, the domestic grain market is now generally stabilizing. In order to raise
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Migrant Workers Can Sue Even Without a Labor Contract, Win Rate Exceeds 90%
(Reporter Liu Shuhong) The Beijing Zhicheng Migrant Workers' Legal Aid and Research Center today released an analysis report on the implementation effects of the Labor Contract Law and the Law on Labor Dispute Mediation and Arbitration. The report collected 16 migrant worker legal
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