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Reminder for choosing wheat varieties: farmers should buy varieties suited to their region
Autumn sowing is approaching, and many farmers are buying wheat varieties. Quite a few wheat varieties from other regions have flooded into unfamiliar townships. Some advertise a yield of 650 kg per mu, some claim an average yield of more than 503 kg per mu, and some are labeled extra-premium with a yield of 700 kg per mu, or even 800 kg. Perhaps these
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National Land Supervision Announces Illegal and Non-compliant Land Use Problems in 9 Cities
In order to urge local people's governments to earnestly fulfill their statutory duties in land use and management, effectively protect arable land, promote economical and intensive land use and safeguard the rights and interests of the people, on September 26 the National Land Inspector-General issued No. 9 Land Supervision Announcement, publicly summoning for talks the people's governments of 9 cities with prominent land violations including Xingtai City in Hebei Province, Jilin
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Increasing grain imports to ensure food security, real grain prices tend to decline
The issue of food security is an old topic. People of insight have long known that the Chinese can fully feed themselves. As early as 1994, when Lester Brown came to China with alarming claims, many domestic scholars pointed out that there were loopholes in Brown's calculations, the most serious being
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Agriculture going global must not only boost productivity but also expand influence
Editor's note: In recent years, China has actively pursued the strategy of agriculture going global, and China's agricultural development overseas has achieved major breakthroughs in both depth and breadth. From small-scale ventures of "crossing the river by feeling the stones" to large-scale contiguous development and "intensive cultivation", China's agriculture that is "going global" is riding the express train of China's economic development, taking root and bearing fruit in many countries and regions around the world. For China's agriculture that is "going global", what is increased overseas is cultivated area, and what is accumulated is international competitiveness. The group of reports from reclamation areas published in this issue not only lets us appreciate the advantages and strength of agricultural reclamation as the national team of agriculture, but also prompts new thinking about how agriculture "going global" can "walk steadily and walk fast" in the future.
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How should the breakthrough directions for hybrid rice be sought?
As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while experts watch the finer points. This exhibition brings together varieties from all well-known hybrid rice breeding research institutions and large enterprises. Can it represent the leading varieties in each region of the current seed market? Can it reflect to some extent the future
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Strive to increase the area under efficient water-saving irrigation to 30% by 2020
The State Council Information Office held a press conference. Li Guoying, Vice Minister of Water Resources, when introducing China's water-saving irrigation situation, said that water-saving irrigation must be vigorously developed, and efforts should be made to increase the proportion of efficient water-saving irrigation area in effective irrigation area to more than 30% by 2020.
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New wheat variety Shangmai 1619 enters the national germplasm resource bank
At the 47th variety approval meeting of the Shaanxi Province Crop Variety Approval Committee, the new wheat variety Shangmai 1619 successfully passed approval. This is the only wheat variety in the southern Shaanxi region to pass approval, and it has been listed in the national wheat germplasm resource bank. Shangmai 1619 was developed in Shang
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Agricultural Product Logistics Development Stimulates Market Vitality
On September 2021, the National Agricultural Product Circulation Network Backbone Market Strategic Cooperation Development Forum and the 2014 China South China Agricultural Commerce Industry Summit Forum were held in Maoming, Guangdong. Nearly 300 government officials, authoritative experts, renowned scholars, and industry elites from all over the country gathered together,
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The Fate and Vigilance of Villages in the Process of Urbanization
Mencius said: "In death or removal, none should leave the village; the fields of the village share the same well. Going out and coming in, they are companions; in watching and guarding, they help one another; in sickness, they support one another; then the common people are affectionate and harmonious." This is an accurate portrayal of the production and lifestyle of rural China over thousands of years. And villages can be said to be the comprehensive carrier that bears, records and perpetuates this traditional
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Maize breeding makes great strides in southern China
This maize variety exhibition featured 103 maize varieties (combinations) from 55 participating units across 17 provinces (municipalities) nationwide. Multiple field surveys showed that the vast majority of the participating varieties grew and developed normally, with full expression of seedling vigor, disease resistance and yield potential. Seedling vigor
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