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China's Grain Output Rises Year After Year, Yet Supply and Demand Remain Tight: How Much Room Is There to Raise Yields Per Unit Area?
At present, the national winter wheat autumn sowing is drawing to a close. China's wheat has enjoyed bumper harvests for many consecutive years, yet stable development still faces some weak links. Under the rigid constraints of land and water resources, declining comparative returns from planting, and the impact of the international market, how can China's wheat achieve stable production and increased output?
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Agriculture boosts ecotourism, one part investment yields three parts harvest
Having just graduated from university last year, Xiao Liu came alone to work in Zhongshan. New to the place with few friends, she often stayed at home and did not know much about the city where she worked, not even what local specialties it had. This spring, Xiao Liu joined a one-day tour organized by her workplace, visiting the Zhan Garden in the South District and also going to the nearby Xujing Agricultural Science and Technology Park to pick fruit and have a barbecue. Only then did she discover that so many delicious fruits are produced in Zhongshan's orchards, and that this place not only has a beautiful urban environment but also has countryside with an even more distinctive charm. Her colleague Sister Mei told her that this orchard in the South District is not far from the city center, and that she also often invites friends and brings her children here to play, where they can eat delicious, pollution-free fruit and let the children get close to nature.
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High grain yields cannot be achieved without the clustered, coordinated approach
October, the harvest season. Across the vast fields of Henan and Shandong, combine harvesters, tillage tractors and grain-hauling tricycles shuttle back and forth through the fields and along the paths, while flocks of foraging birds rise and settle from time to time... At the field edges and on the drying grounds, farmers work the land while chatting
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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