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Rural revitalization must respect grassroots creativity and not impose a one-size-fits-all model
In China's vast traditional farming areas, how can arable land be used sparingly and intensively to raise land output? How can the production enthusiasm of ordinary farming households be further mobilized? How can a path to modern agriculture suited to local conditions be blazed? Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province, boldly reformed agricultural
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Drought Has Limited Impact on China's Grain Imports
Shi Xiaoguang, a 35-year-old major grain grower in Bozhou, Anhui, stands in the heavy rain he had waited two months for, yet he cannot bring himself to feel happy at all. The solar term has passed, and no matter how much irrigation is done now, the trend of reduced corn and soybean yields is already set. Shi Xiaoguang directs the planting workers to hoe weeds and spray pesticides, hoping
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Will the widening price gap between domestic and imported grain trigger a repeat of the soybean crisis?
If you control oil, you control all nations; if you control grain, you control all people. As former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger said, food security is not only a major issue of great concern in the halls of power, but also an unavoidable question for villagers in the countryside as to whether they can have enough to eat and drink.
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China's fisheries development continues its sound momentum
Since 2014, fisheries departments at all levels across the country have earnestly studied and implemented the spirit of the State Council's national teleconference on modern fisheries development, seized the momentum, and opened up a new phase in modern fisheries development. Statistics show that the first half of 2014 continued the twelve
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National crop drought-affected area reduced by 12.47 million mu; drought eased in Henan, Shaanxi, Hebei and Anhui
Recently, the eastern part of Northwest China, most of North China and the Huang-Huai region experienced relatively strong rainfall. The drought in central and southern Shaanxi, northwestern Henan and southern Hebei has been eased, and the drought in Anhui Province has been lifted. However, the drought-affected area in north-central Hubei has continued to see little rain, and the drought there has somewhat worsened. Our reporter learned from the State Flood Control
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Severe Drought Hits Many Parts of China, Grain Production Faces Challenges
According to Xinhua News Agency, as an important national commercial grain base, several major grain-producing counties in Jilin Province are currently suffering severe drought, among which 10 major grain-producing counties including Changling, Nong'an and Gongzhuling have seen the least precipitation since 1951, with some plots even yielding no harvest at all. Chief of the Jilin Provincial Meteorological Observatory
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Why Organic Agricultural Systems Are an Economic Model Worth Promoting
Modern organic agriculture is a combination of traditional agriculture with innovative thinking and advanced technology. This new type of agriculture, based on innovation and science, offers new methods for cultivating soil nutrients, controlling pests, diseases and weeds, and increasing yields. An organic
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To promote early maturity and prevent early frost, some areas in Northeast China will strengthen technical guidance
Report from Beijing, August 11 (Reporter Qiao Jinliang): This year, some areas in Northeast China suffered severe low-temperature spring waterlogging in spring, soybean sowing dates were significantly delayed compared with normal years, some areas experienced periodic overcast, rainy and low-light weather during the flowering and podding period, the growth process was sluggish, and the maturity period may be later than normal.
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Ecological agriculture transformation and food security assurance advance in parallel
In 1994, Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute in the United States, published an article titled "Who Will Feed China?" in the US journal World Watch, claiming that China would inevitably experience food shortages, thereby causing a global food crisis. At the time, this view immediately
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Strengthen farmland protection and ecological conservation to safeguard national food security
To safeguard national food security, we must do a good job in ecological conservation, farmland protection and protection of core agricultural areas. The state has set a red line of 1.8 billion mu of farmland to ensure that the farmland area does not decrease. Delineating the ecological conservation red line is an urgent need to curb the severe trend of ecological and environmental degradation
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