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International Conference on Agricultural Trade Policy 2015 held in Beijing
On October 19, the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) jointly held the 2015 International Conference on Agricultural Trade Policy in Beijing. The conference addressed how to safeguard
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The Decline of China's Fisheries Development: Mu Yongtong on Whether the Blue Ocean Strategy Should Be Implemented
[Lead-in] Live off the mountain if you live by the mountain; live off the sea if you live by the sea. But today's sea is no longer the sea of the past. Does today's sea still have resources worth tapping? Mu Yongtong, professor at Ocean University of China, explains in detail. [Spoken intro] Bountiful Haiyang, four seasons in the countryside. Hello, friends in the audience,
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Overall Level of Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Remained Stable in the Third Quarter
From July to September 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture organized and carried out the third-quarter routine national monitoring of agricultural product quality and safety (risk monitoring), covering 94 parameters across 84 varieties of 4 major categories of products - vegetables, fruits, livestock and poultry products, and aquatic products - in 152 large and medium-sized cities across 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), with 11,315 samples tested and an overall pass rate of 97.7%.
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Guo Jingbo: Unified standards are needed for aquatic product packaging
"You should go to the supermarket and look at frozen shrimp; half is shrimp and half is water." Ms. Xu called the news hotline to report this. The reporter then went to Century Lianhua Supermarket and bought a bag of shrimp for a test. The frozen shrimp labeled 211.5 grams weighed only 58 grams after thawing (October 12, Modern Jinqbao).
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How effective is the agricultural water price reform? An in-depth interpretation of its implementation results
The current agricultural water price is generally set at a low standard with a low collection rate; farmers have no incentive to save water, and the water fees can hardly sustain the normal operation of irrigation and drainage projects. Carrying out agricultural water price reform is not simply about raising prices, but involves comprehensive reform in many aspects such as water rights allocation, price formation mechanisms, subsidies and incentives.
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How can fertilizer reduction avoid yield loss? Improving fertilizer efficiency is key
——Interview with Yang Fan of the Soil and Fertilizer Technology Division of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center. Since the Ministry of Agriculture launched the action to achieve zero growth in chemical fertilizer use nationwide this year, reducing chemical fertilizer use and curbing the decline in arable land quality have gradually become a general social consensus, and the action has progressed relatively
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How should the professionalization of agricultural production be advanced?
The season is right in autumn, and it is also the time of year for harvesting and settling accounts in agriculture. The harvest in the fields and the farmers' income have once again become numbers that many people worry over endlessly and hold close to their hearts. As the agricultural workforce and the grain planting area both continue to shrink, how
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Why can't rural tourism do without farmers' participation?
"Rural tourism is good!" was the inscription personally written by Du Runsheng, former director of the Rural Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, on September 3 for the "China Modern Rural Tourism 30 Years Forum." This may have been the old man's last inscription. On September 19, "China Modern Rural Tourism
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Rising and falling agricultural product prices do not mean the government stays out; NDRC responds
The State Council Information Office held a press conference at 10 a.m. on October 21 in the press conference hall of the State Council Information Office. Xu Kunlin, director of the Price Department of the NDRC, said that so far, after deregulating the tobacco leaf purchase price, agricultural product prices are completely formed by the market, with no
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Pain points in the corn deep processing industry urgently need to be resolved
The corn deep processing industry is in dire straits. In August this year, in order to reduce the pressure of corporate losses, most starch processors, including COFCO, Yihai, and Pengcheng Biochemical, began shutting down and cutting production, and most are currently either fully or half shut down. According to statistics, Hei
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