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Greenhouse tunnel cultivation of Jade Girl cherry tomatoes doubles yields while saving labor
Young farmer Chen Mingxiong took over the family business eight years ago. Under the guidance of the farmers' association and the production and marketing group, he adopted the greenhouse tunnel cultivation method to grow Jade Girl tomatoes, which not only doubled the yield but also made harvesting easier. Inside the tunnel, clusters of plump, luscious Jade Girl tomatoes hang all over the trellis, while the unripe green cherry tomatoes dangle in midair.
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Is growing grain actually worth it? High grain yields do not equal higher farmer incomes
China's number one wheat county welcomes a twelfth consecutive summer grain increase, yet a major grain county is not equal to a strong agricultural county, and high grain yields are not equal to higher farmer incomes. Even when grain is grown to the utmost, farmers' incomes are still not high, and Hua County is not content to accept this. Sharply raising grain prices is unrealistic; to both stabilize grain and increase income, Hua County is exploring a path to comprehensively upgrade agricultural industrialization.
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Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests: increasing yields through fertilizer worsens arable land quality
Hidden concerns behind ten consecutive bumper summer grain harvests. The National Bureau of Statistics website announced on July 12 that in 2013, the national total summer grain output reached 131.89 million tons, an increase of 1.96 million tons over 2012, up 1.5%; of which winter wheat output was 115.67 million tons, an increase of 1.48 million tons over the previous year, up 1.3%. 201
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Severe drought hits autumn grain crops in multiple regions; Ministry of Agriculture demands efforts to ensure stable yields and a bumper harvest
In recent days, 12 provinces in China including Henan, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and Xinjiang have been hit by severe drought. The spreading drought has dried up reservoirs and river channels, made drinking water scarce for people and livestock, and may leave autumn grain crops in some areas facing total crop failure. Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu recently traveled to He
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Implementing a responsibility system with capable people in rural areas yields good results
It is hard to imagine that a village with 246 households and 856 people, with a confirmed land area of more than 1,000 mu, actually involves more than 3,000 plots, and the household with the most has more than 60 fields of various sizes. However, the common people used their own methods to accomplish a seemingly impossible task, and among the 104 villages selected in Beijing's Pinggu District for the pilot of county-wide advancement of nationwide land confirmation and registration, this village became the fastest-progressing large village.
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Granary of the World Hit by Drought: Huge Investment in Farmland Water Conservancy Yields Limited Results
"I haven't been home since the start of summer, constantly repairing wells in various places, eating and sleeping at the work sites." Xu Bingchang, the head of an engineering team who has been engaged in well-cleaning work in Henan for many years, told a reporter from the Huaxia Times wearily. Henan, hailed as the Granary of the World, is currently experiencing
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Machine-transplanted early rice yields a bumper harvest, with strong momentum for mechanization promotion
Despite being affected by prolonged continuous low temperatures, overcast and rainy weather, and insufficient sunlight, the machine-transplanted early rice at Datonghu Farm of Hunan State Farms still achieved a bumper harvest. Expert inspection data show that the average yield of machine-transplanted early rice in the area was 532.8 kg per mu. At the same time, more than 110,000 mu of machine-transplanted early rice in the area
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Farm Machinery Subsoiling and Land Preparation Help Achieve High Grain Yields
In order to gradually improve the quality of cultivated land, promote stable and high grain yields and increase farmers' incomes, on August 20, the Henan Provincial Agricultural Machinery Bureau and the Provincial Department of Finance jointly formulated the "Henan Province 2014 Farm Machinery Subsoiling and Land Preparation Pilot Work Plan," using subsidies to guide farmers in carrying out farm machinery subsoiling operations,
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Cooperative farms boost returns: eight people cultivate over a thousand mu of land
A Ministry of Agriculture investigation team that stays grounded and observes people's conditions went to Jiangsu for research for more than half a month, conducting an in-depth study of the rice and wheat planting and management model in Dianzhan Village, Chengxiang Town, Taicang City. Dianzhan Village has a total of 1350 mu of rice and wheat farmland, all of which has been transferred to the village collective, farmed by 8 professional farmers
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Rice yields in demonstration zones increase by about 10%, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences technology integration shows results
The China Academy of Agricultural Sciences carried out an integrated experiment on high-yield and high-efficiency comprehensive rice technology this year. During interviews, reporters learned that the experimental results are encouraging, with yields about 10% higher than conventional planting. Chen Mengshan, Party Secretary of the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences, said that in recent years, the growth rate of China's grain yield per unit area has been declining, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to raise yields.
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