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The temporary corn storage policy in Northeast China must be implemented well, and enterprises should be encouraged to actively enter the market to purchase.
Since the beginning of this year, against the backdrop of ample domestic corn supply, weak industrial demand, and increased imports of substitutes, the domestic corn market has generally operated weakly, and in the second half of the year corn market prices have shown a continuous downward trend. On September 17, the state announced this year's corn
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No off-season in time, no blind spots in space for seed market regulation
Editor's Note: As law enforcement intensifies and special campaigns are carried out frequently, seed market inspection and rectification have no off-season in terms of time and no gaps in terms of space. In practice, many localities have also explored new models and new approaches based on their own characteristics, such as the joint inspection by the three regions of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the county-level seed market order evaluation in Jiangsu, and the advance warning followed by swift and severe punishment in Zhangye. This issue's Market Scan presents to you the new elements in this autumn's seed market inspection campaign through the practices of various localities.
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How long until vegetables go direct from field to table?
In recent years, farmers' cooperatives in some cities have opened direct-sales stores in communities to sell vegetables, so that the vegetables grown by farmers go straight from the fields to the dining tables of city residents. This should be a good thing that benefits both residents and farmers, but many vegetable direct-sales stores are losing money. Why
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Autumn vegetable planting area slightly increased in September, with the peak harvest season arriving in October
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in September was basically flat year-on-year and increased month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose both year-on-year and month-on-month. In October, autumn vegetables will begin to hit the market in large volumes, and farm-gate wholesale prices for vegetables will edge down slightly, though the price level will remain higher than the previous year.
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Future food may come from high-tech agriculture
To feed the 7 billion people on Earth, we have already cultivated 40% of the planet's land, and by 2050 the world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion. Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that to avoid widespread malnutrition, food production needs to increase by 70%. But there is now little
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Where exactly is the way forward for spring-sown rapeseed?
As of mid-October, the harvest of China's spring-sown rapeseed is nearing its end, with the harvest in the Inner Mongolia region basically complete, and the harvest progress in the northwestern production areas also approaching about 80%. However, constrained by the end of the national temporary storage price-support system, rapeseed from the above production areas has not only seen prices plummet,
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Why is the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China less than 50%?
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said on the 23rd that due to the massive use of chemical fertilizers, insufficient rural environmental protection investment and other factors, composting is becoming increasingly rare in rural areas, and the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China is now below 50%. Zhang Taolin made the remarks at the 2015 International Composting Conference
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Prices of the three major staple grains fall together, agricultural product price reform may accelerate
A bumper harvest without a bumper income: this autumn, farmers may not have much to celebrate. Since the third quarter, prices of the three major domestic staple grains have fallen steadily. According to statistics, corn saw the largest drop, with the purchase price falling from the year's high of 2279 yuan/ton to 1980 yuan/ton, a decline of 13.1%; the wheat purchase price fell from the year's high of
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Agricultural e-commerce development must first let farmers make money rather than spend money
On the morning of the 25th, the Second Western E-commerce Development Summit Forum was held in Chengdu, where guests, experts and rural e-commerce practitioners gathered to jointly explore the path of rural e-commerce development. The attending experts unanimously agreed that in the "Internet Plus" era, rural e-commerce must first properly handle the
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Straw Burning Becomes a Tough Problem for Air Pollution Prevention and Control
After the National Day holiday, many places in northern China were once again hit by smog. This round of smog made agricultural straw burning the target of public criticism and once again focused public attention on this difficult problem for government management. Every autumn, as the grain harvest draws to a close, rural areas in various places enter the peak period of straw burning.
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