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The impact of agricultural policy adjustments on agricultural product prices requires close attention.
The external economic environment remains unsettled. On December 17, 2015, the Federal Reserve announced a 25 basis point rate hike, its first increase in more than 9 years. Since the financial crisis at the end of 2008, the ultra-low zero interest rate policy that had been pursued came to an end, marking the full entry of the U.S. economy int
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How did the apple supply-side reform journey unfold?
Fruit wholesale prices fall to rock bottom; e-commerce platforms that people remember as selling only cheap goods hold their prices firm. Bad news has fruit wholesalers frowning. Since entering the second half of 2015, the fruit market has plummeted. Compared with previous years, apple and orange prices have nearly halved.
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On January 4, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with before the holiday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on January 4 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 202.99, up 0.87 points from before the holiday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 204.44, up 1.15 points from before the holiday. As of 14:00 today, in the national agricultural products wholesale market, pork
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How to awaken the sleeping land and bring the soil back to life
The Central Rural Work Conference at the end of the year set the tone for 2016 to strengthen agricultural supply-side reform, improve the quality and efficiency of the agricultural supply system, make the quantity, variety and quality of agricultural product supply meet consumer needs, and truly form a rational structure and strongly guaranteed agricultural product
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Interpreting New Trends in China's Agricultural Trade
After joining the WTO, China became the country with the most open and fastest-growing agricultural products market in the world, so today's food and food security issues are particularly important. In 2015, the national food security strategy underwent a moderate adjustment, establishing the principle of moderate imports,
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Why is food the most important yet the least valuable
Recently, Huang Yanxin, deputy director of the Department of Economic Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, said at a conference: food is less valuable than mineral water, which is unfair and unreasonable. He suggested that the state should raise the minimum purchase price of food year by year. Food is the most important yet the least valuable, and the reason is simple:
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The Belt and Road Initiative Brings New Development Opportunities for the Agriculture and Food Industry
The "Belt and Road" strategy proposed by China covers one third of the world's sovereign states and involves nearly two thirds of the global population, making it the world's largest regional economic cooperation initiative. To realize this grand economic vision, it is completely impossible to rely on China alone.
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In the era of big data, agriculture will become clean and simple
Food is the first necessity of the people. The deep integration of the internet and agriculture is driving the development of agricultural big data. In the internet era, big data analysis is enabling smart agriculture to develop more rapidly. Riding the smart agriculture express, farming will no longer be dirty, tiring, and lowly work; instead, it will
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Economic Analysis of China's Agricultural Subsidies and Interpretation of the Current State of Agricultural Income Subsidy Policy
Agricultural subsidies are the most important and most commonly used policy tool in a country's support and protection system for its agriculture, and are transfer payments made by the government to agricultural production, circulation and trade. Their purpose is to ensure national agricultural security, maintain stable prices for agricultural products and protect
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How can agriculture's weak links be shored up? The key lies in adjusting the supply structure
The Central Rural Work Conference held recently explicitly proposed that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we must effectively stretch the "short leg" of agriculture in the synchronous development of the four modernizations, and shore up the "weak link" of rural areas in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. At present, agriculture faces many contradictions and difficulties, with different "symptoms," but the "root cause" lies in structure
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