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To Stabilize Vegetable Prices, Why Not Set Up a Vegetable Futures Market
Vegetable farmers (or vegetable buyers) decide how much to produce the following year based on futures prices, and hedge by taking short positions; vegetable markets (or wholesale markets) decide how much to buy the following year based on futures prices, and hedge by taking long positions. According to a report in the Wuhan Evening News, this year
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Good market analysis requires staying grounded in reality
As a 12316 consultant, my daily work involves receiving and answering farmers' inquiries about markets, technology, and other issues, conducting agricultural product market monitoring, and compiling and distributing information products such as market analyses and daily price reports. In actual work, the agricultural product market
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Staple foods lead dietary trends, processing boosts agricultural efficiency
Steamed buns, noodles and rice are staple foods that Chinese people cannot do without every day. As the pace of life accelerates, fewer and fewer people mix dough and steam buns or roll out noodles at home, and standardized, factory-produced staple food products have become the choice of more people. Yet in the face of growing
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How can autumn grain production be protected against disasters for safety? The Ministry of Agriculture makes a nationwide deployment
Currently, we are in the critical period of "flood control and drought relief from late July to mid-August," and also the critical period for autumn grain growth and development and disaster prevention and mitigation. On July 26, the Ministry of Agriculture held a national on-site meeting on fighting disasters to secure an autumn grain harvest, deploying and arranging autumn grain field management work focused on disaster prevention and mitigation, emphasizing
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China's high-mountain vegetable sown area reaches 22 million mu
China's high-mountain vegetable sown area reaches 22 million mu, becoming an important driver of poverty alleviation in mountainous areas. Xinhua News Agency, Yinchuan, July 29 (Zhang Liang, Yang Wenxi) - Qian Keming, Chief Economist of the Ministry of Agriculture, recently revealed at the 6th China (Ningxia) Horticultural Expo that China's high-mountain vegetable sown area
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Storing Grain Among the People Is Quietly Changing, Challenging Traditional Rural Grain Storage Models
Gongzhuling City in Jilin Province is a major corn-producing county in China, with an annual corn output of more than 3 million tonnes. To meet farmers' grain-selling needs, in 2013 the city's corn purchasing depots increased to 61, and many large canopy shelters and open-air grain storage bins were built, standing shoulder to shoulder with tall silos and flat warehouses.
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Experts from the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences carry out science and technology services in Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi
Website news In recent days, expert service teams from the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences have been active in Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi, carrying out science and technology disaster relief. After Typhoon Rammasun, the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, in accordance with the emergency deployment of the Ministry of Agriculture, launched the "Hundred Experts Science and Technology Disaster Relief Action", sending out a
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Pace of Grassland Ecological Restoration Notably Accelerated, Policy Oriented Toward Ecological Protection
This website reports: Grassland accounts for 41.7% of China's land area and is the main battlefield of China's ecological civilization construction. Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture, together with relevant departments, has fully implemented the grassland ecological protection subsidy and reward policy, accelerated the implementation of major grassland protection and construction projects, launched the action to advance modern grassland animal husbandry in the south, and strengthened grassland disaster prevention and mitigation, so the pace of grassland ecological restoration has notably accelerated.
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On July 29, 2014, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 29 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 205.68, down 1.49 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 207.67, down 1.73 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market pork
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Can organic farming only ever be a personal lifestyle?
In 2000, An Jinlei, a farmer in Dongzilong Village, Matun Town, Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province, contracted 40 mu of land in the village and began practicing his organic farming of "no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no herbicides," trying to pick up traditional farming methods. An Jinlei used fertilizer bags to collect
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