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Five ministries tackle rural food safety: zero growth in pesticide use by 2020
Image source: CFP Recently, in order to vigorously address and solve prominent rural food safety problems and safeguard the safety of the food on the tables of the rural masses, the Food Safety Office of the State Council, together with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and the State Food and Drug Administration, issued the "Opinions on Strengthening Rural Food
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Zero tolerance must be upheld on the issue of milk powder quality
Recently, two pieces of news about domestically produced infant formula milk powder drew public attention. First, the State Food and Drug Administration conducted a special sampling inspection of infant formula milk powder and detected 11 batches of samples that did not meet national standards and posed food safety risks. Second, a certain domestic
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The key to zero growth in chemical fertilizer use is treating both the symptoms and root causes of cultivated land
To achieve zero growth in chemical fertilizer use, it is still necessary to improve the fertilization structure. This can maintain stable and continuously growing agricultural productivity, stable and sustained soil fertility, a healthy and balanced ecological environment, and the sustainable use of resources and the environment. Recently, a reporter interviewed
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Action Plan for Zero Growth in Chemical Fertilizer Use, Ministry of Agriculture Pushes Forward with Focus
On May 19, the Ministry of Agriculture held in Beijing a meeting on advancing and implementing the action plan for zero growth in chemical fertilizer use by 2020, to further implement the relevant requirements of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture, unify thinking, and clarify tasks. The meeting emphasized that agricultural departments must fulfill their duties, take the initiative, and effectively put all
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How is the Zero Growth Action for Chemical Fertilizers being advanced? Cooperation between agricultural enterprises lends a hand
This website news: This year, the Department of Crop Production Management of the Ministry of Agriculture and Sinochem Fertilizer Co., Ltd. carried out in-depth cooperation, innovated service mechanisms, explored new models of scientific fertilization, and achieved fertilizer reduction and efficiency improvement. A pilot for fertilizer reduction and efficiency improvement in corn was carried out in Northeast China. According to new-type operating
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National Bureau of Statistics: Pesticide output in the first quarter close to zero growth
The latest data released by the National Bureau of Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, China produced a cumulative total of 890,560 tons of chemical pesticides, a year-on-year increase of only 0.02%, the lowest growth rate in recent years and close to zero growth. By product category, in the first quarter China produced a total of 474,390 tons of herbicides,
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Total agricultural irrigation water use has seen zero growth for 14 consecutive years
On the 14th, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources news briefing: the construction of farmland water conservancy is continuously accelerating, China's effective irrigated farmland area has reached 952 million mu, of which the area of water-saving irrigation projects has reached 407 million mu. Farmland irrigation efficiency continues to improve, and the effective utilization coefficient of irrigation water has reached
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Zero-Growth Action Plan for Fertilizer and Pesticide Use Officially Launched
On March 17, the Ministry of Agriculture stated that it will launch a nationwide zero-growth action plan for fertilizer and pesticide use, striving to achieve a fertilizer utilization rate and pesticide utilization rate for major crops of both over 40% by 2020, an increase of 7 percentage points and 5 percentage points respectively compared with 2013
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Action Plan for Zero Growth in Pesticide and Fertilizer Use Officially Released
The heavy use of pesticides has brought farmers greater convenience, but it has also brought serious pollution to the environment. To reduce pesticide use, the Ministry of Agriculture's action plan for zero growth in pesticide and fertilizer use has been released. On the afternoon of January 28, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu chaired an executive meeting of the ministry.
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Fertilizer and pesticide use is expected to achieve zero growth in 5 years
At the Ministry of Agriculture press conference held on the 6th, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that by 2020, China's agriculture should achieve "one control, two reductions, three basics," namely controlling the total amount of agricultural water use; reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, with fertilizer and pesticide use achieving zero growth; basically achieving the resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, with all dead livestock and poultry achieving harmless treatment;
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