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Agricultural industrialization should leave room for smallholder farmers to develop
Given the situation of many people and little land, a huge rural population, and urban absorption capacity that remains to be seen, we need to once again recognize the wisdom and contributions of the hundreds of millions of smallholders who sustain China's social stability in agricultural production, and in the process of agricultural modernization and industrialization,
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Green yield increase will become a keyword in agricultural development
Structural adjustment of crop farming, transformation and upgrading of herbivorous animal husbandry, and integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. As summer grain production achieves a "twelfth consecutive bumper harvest," China's agriculture is making new explorations in transforming its development model and adjusting its structure. The National Bureau of Statistics recently released data showing that in 2015, the national
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Have the Grain Subsidies Arrived? A Clear Guide to the Payment Details
Editor's Note: For stabilizing grain and raising incomes, agricultural subsidy policy has played an indispensable role. However, as agriculture and rural areas undergo profound change, the effects and efficiency of a subsidy policy implemented for more than 10 years are diminishing, making adjustments and improvements urgently necessary. In response to current practical problems, this year the state is advancing
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Why are rural people still a byword for backwardness?
A survey recently conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily shows that over these years, 51.2% of respondents have changed their impression of rural people a great deal, yet 40.3% of respondents believe the term "rural people" is still ambiguous, and 53.9% of respondents believe the gap between
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E-commerce Gives Agricultural Product Sales Wings to Soar
Editor's Note In recent years, e-commerce has become a new platform for rural youth to start businesses and find employment, and a new way for farmers to increase their incomes, especially playing a unique role in solving the difficulty of selling agricultural products. Many readers have written in saying that agricultural product e-commerce has broad prospects, but at present there are still
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International Grain Prices Fall: How Can Grain Enterprises Share the Benefits?
A report recently released by the World Bank states that international market grain prices fell 14% between August 2014 and May 2015, dropping to a 5-year low. The report, titled "Food Price Watch," says that affected by low oil prices, global grain supply was ample in 2014, and bumper harvests of wheat, corn and rice were in sight in 2015; these factors caused international grain prices to fall sharply.
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Have the poor fallen into a structural poverty trap?
In a broad sense, poverty alleviation mainly refers to two aspects: the reduction of absolute poverty and the narrowing of inequality. Over the past 30-plus years, China's alleviation of absolute poverty has been very obvious. Nowadays in many places, whether a household in a poor village owns a bicycle, motorcycle, TV set, etc. can no longer serve as a standard for judging whether it is poor.
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China's agricultural development model is accelerating its transformation
The recent State Council executive meeting held recently held that the work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers concerns the overall national situation and must be placed in a foundational position at all times. The meeting deployed efforts to accelerate the transformation of the agricultural development model and take a path of safe, efficient and green development. In recent years, the structural adjustment of the planting industry, the acceleration of the transformation and upgrading of herbivorous livestock
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New Wheat Purchase Policy Implemented, Farmers' Income Guaranteed
Editor's note: Affected by the domestic macroeconomic situation and the supply-demand relationship for wheat, the market price of new wheat has been running weak this year. Driven by the minimum purchase price policy, the price has generally risen slightly while remaining stable, but quality differentiation is obvious, and the purchase volume has dropped sharply compared with the same period last year. This year's new
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After a Grain Harvest Disaster, Who Will Ease the Farmers' Worries?
When people are diligent, heaven helps, and joy overflows through the skylight; when people are diligent but meet natural disaster, there is nowhere to pour out their grief. From ancient times to the present, "relying on heaven for the harvest" seems to be an insurmountable obstacle for grain farmers. Even in today's highly developed science and technology, people still cannot escape the harassment of natural disasters. In our country
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