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Rising Risks for Corn as Prices Face a Pullback; Tight Supply of High-Quality Grain May Ease
Since June and July, corn futures prices have risen sharply, driven by drought weather and tight supply of high-quality grain. Among them, the nearby 1409 contract showed the most obvious trend, with corn 1409 rising about 14.58% and 1501 rising about 4.35% in the short two months to the end of August. The earlier rapid rise in corn futures prices
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Cotton Price Reform Pilot Advances: NDRC Has Launched Monitoring Work
According to the NDRC, in accordance with the deployment of the State Council, the Xinjiang cotton target price reform pilot was launched in 2014. With the approval of the State Council, the 2014 cotton target price has been announced at 19,800 yuan per ton; the "Cotton Target Price Reform Pilot Plan" has been issued to the pilot areas; the "New
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Hidden Fundraising and Lending by Agriculture-Related Enterprises: Runaway Cases Sound the Alarm
Reporters interviewing in Hubei, Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other places found that small and micro agriculture-related enterprises, including self-employed businesses and farmers' cooperatives, have in recent years engaged in various forms of fundraising and lending activities in increasing numbers. After absorbing deposits, they on-lend to others at high interest; due to broken capital chains, cases of bosses running away have already appeared in some areas
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The pea power of a production-and-marketing professional cooperative
On August 20, the site of the rebate meeting of the Beijing Rongtao Pea Production and Marketing Professional Cooperative was packed with people, and hundreds of expectant eyes were fixed on cooperative president Zhang Tao. When this female leader announced that the board of directors had decided to pay a uniform rebate of six mao per jin based on pea output, the scene immediately erupted
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The stock of rural homestead land is enormous and urgently needs to be activated
Land system reform is the core of the new round of rural reform, and is foundational work for once again releasing the dividends that promote rural development and accelerating the process of new-type urbanization. The rural homestead land with an enormous stock area is an important part of land reform. Getting a clear picture of the rural homestead base
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Development Demands in International Agricultural Trade Should Be Taken Seriously
Recently, the author noticed that due to the tough stance taken by India and other countries on the issue of agricultural subsidies, the only trade liberalization agreement reached since the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) stalled at the end of July. Some commentators believe that this move may deal a blow to the outside world's
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How to do a good job of this big article on sending resources to the countryside
To mobilize urban resources to flow to the countryside, we must strive to form a unified factor market between urban and rural areas, and in particular revitalize such resources as farmers' land contract rights, homestead land, and collective operational construction land. In the boom of new urbanization, some places emphasize farmers moving into cities more and guide urban resources
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Sinograin Caught in a Dilemma Over Grain Purchasing and Storage, Rushes to Free Up 30 Million Tonnes of Warehouse Capacity
Although the state granaries are overflowing, China's corn, rice and wheat are expected to see another bumper harvest this year, while market demand for grain is unlikely to pick up. A new round of state grain purchasing and storage is imperative, and this will push China's grain inventories to a new record. China's grain storage
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Machine-transplanted early rice yields a bumper harvest, with strong momentum for mechanization promotion
Despite being affected by prolonged continuous low temperatures, overcast and rainy weather, and insufficient sunlight, the machine-transplanted early rice at Datonghu Farm of Hunan State Farms still achieved a bumper harvest. Expert inspection data show that the average yield of machine-transplanted early rice in the area was 532.8 kg per mu. At the same time, more than 110,000 mu of machine-transplanted early rice in the area
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Agricultural insurance paid out 74.4 billion yuan in 7 years; a catastrophe risk diversification mechanism urgently needs to be established
Since the first pilot in 2004, agricultural insurance has now been developing for more than 10 years. Data released by the China Insurance Regulatory Commission on August 28 show that over the 7 years from 2007 to 2013, China's agricultural insurance cumulatively provided 4.07 trillion yuan in risk protection and paid 7
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