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In the first half of 2014, the national usage of formula fertilizer for major grain crops reached 5.3 million tons
In the first half of this year, the national usage of formula fertilizer for major grain crops reached 5.3 million tons (in terms of pure nutrients), with an application area of 360 million mu-times, up 17.8% and 20% respectively compared with the same period last year; formula fertilizer already accounted for about 40% of the total fertilizer applied to major grain crops. This was learned by the reporter at the meeting to evaluate the results of the demonstration county creation for promoting formula fertilizer through agricultural enterprise cooperation.
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Mid-Autumn Festival: Farmers Everywhere Busy with Autumn Harvest and Autumn Field Management
On September 8, farmers in Shishang Village, Renshou Town, Jing'an County, Jiangxi Province, drove agricultural machinery to harvest mid-season rice. The day was the Mid-Autumn Festival and also White Dew, one of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar. Farmers everywhere stepped up autumn harvest and autumn field management, and the fields were bustling with activity. Photo released by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Xu Zhongting)
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China's Fresh Food Market Is Huge, and Connecting the Cold Chain Logistics Is the Key
China's fresh food market is so huge, yet the circulation of fresh products has long suffered from a lack of professional cold chain equipment and facilities, causing annual losses of over 100 billion yuan in fruits, vegetables, aquatic products and the like, and inadequate cold chain transport has become the bottleneck restricting the development of fresh food e-commerce. Recently, fresh food e-commerce
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How should the path of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics be taken?
A large population, relatively scarce agricultural resources, a large volume of grain consumption, and an insufficient capacity of agriculture to support the population - these are the prominent features of China's national conditions. How to feed about 20% of the world's population with about 10% of the world's arable land and 6.5% of its water resources has long been the number one development challenge facing modern China.
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The annual agricultural machinery deep loosening and land preparation task must be completed with guaranteed quality and quantity
As the nationwide large-scale "three autumns" mechanized production work is about to kick off, on September 4, the Ministry of Agriculture held an on-site meeting on agricultural machinery deep loosening and land preparation operations in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, organizing observation of deep loosening machine demonstrations and studying and deploying measures to further advance deep loosening and land preparation work.
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Cooperative becomes members' money purse, finding the road to prosperity through practice
Wang Fenghua is the full-time family planning officer of Zhaowa Village, Shiwuliyuan Town, Yanggu County, Shandong Province, and also the chairman of Yanggu Fenghua Grain Professional Cooperative. She is short in stature, dark-complexioned, and utterly unremarkable in appearance. But throughout the surrounding villages and townships, when people mention Wang Fenghua, they involuntarily give a thumbs-up
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Sustainable development of pastoral areas requires a long-term mechanism
From August 30 to September 3, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kangzhen conducted a survey in the Xinjiang autonomous region on the implementation of the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy and the transformation and development of the grassland livestock industry. He stressed that the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy is a major measure taken by the central government to promote the sound and rapid development of pastoral areas, and that all localities must adhere to the basic principle of "combining production and ecology organically, with ecology taking priority," firmly establish the concept that "protecting ecology means protecting productivity, and improving ecology means developing productivity," further establish and improve a long-term mechanism for grassland protection and construction, actively advance the transformation and upgrading of the grassland livestock industry, promote the sustainable development of pastoral areas, and achieve "greener grasslands, a stronger livestock industry, and wealthier herders."
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Agricultural insurance escorts the development of new-type agricultural business entities
It is undeniable that China's agricultural production has not yet completely escaped the predicament of relying on the weather, with abnormal weather occurring frequently and the impact of disasters expanding day by day. Under such circumstances, how to minimize the losses to individual farmers' interests while ensuring the smooth realization of the national strategy for food security is a major issue.
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Analysis of Internal Control Mechanism Problems in Rural Credit Cooperatives and Improvement Measures
For a long time, the contradictions accumulated by rural credit cooperatives due to internal control systems, internal control supervision and other aspects have become increasingly prominent, posing ever-greater risks to their own healthy development. Strengthening the internal control restraint mechanism and improving internal control measures have become key to rural credit
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Record Agricultural Output, Yet Capital Flees in Droves
As agricultural output hits record levels and the outlook for meat supply improves, US agricultural futures prices have plummeted, and the tide of capital flooding into US agricultural futures has come to an abrupt halt. Data shows that in the first 5 months of this year, capital flowing into the agricultural market far exceeded
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