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How Comprehensive Utilization of Straw Can Recover the Other Half of Agriculture
The photo shows agricultural machinery being used to bale straw directly in the field for removal. Photo by Liang Baozhong. Editor's note: The autumn grain harvest season has arrived once again, and the issue of banning straw burning has once again drawn attention from all sectors of society. In agriculture's spring blossoming and autumn fruiting, half of the product lies in the grain and half in the straw. Ex
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Agricultural Comprehensive Development Actively Explores Leveraging Financial Capital Support
In order to give full play to the guiding and leveraging role of fiscal funds and leverage more financial capital to support modern agriculture construction, in 2015, the central government allocated 190 million yuan in agricultural comprehensive development funds to support 154 industrialized operation loan interest subsidy projects. Among them, the central government invested
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Agricultural resources and ecological environmental protection are jointly promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environmental Protection
On October 22, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu and Minister of Environmental Protection Chen Jining held a discussion at the Ministry of Agriculture on strengthening cooperation between the two ministries on agricultural resources and ecological environmental protection. The two sides focused on the upcoming "Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan," comprehensive prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution
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Han Changfu: Deepen the Campaign to Create National Agricultural Product Quality and Safety Counties
The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the quality of agricultural products and food safety work, and General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have made important speeches on many occasions. Today the State Council Food Safety Commission convened two creation site meetings, Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli made important instructions, and Vice Premier Wang Yang
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Three Prongs Needed for Internet Plus Rural Development
Recently, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council convened an executive meeting of the State Council to specifically discuss how to accelerate the development of rural e-commerce. The meeting produced three resolutions: to improve the compensation mechanism for universal broadband and telecommunications services in rural and remote areas to narrow the urban-rural digital divide; to deploy accelerated development of rural e-commerce, boosting new business forms to spur consumption and benefit the people; and to determine measures to promote the development of the express delivery industry and cultivate new growth points in modern services.
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2015 Grain Output Rises but Income Doesn't: Cheap Grain Hurts Farmers, Bringing Multiple Impacts
The stable and orderly development of the grain market is the basic guarantee for farmers' survival. How did China's grain market perform in 2015? It is reported that the domestic corn market experienced sharp rises and falls in 2014 and is currently moving weakly forward. The overall situation of the grain market in 2015 is not optimistic. According to reports, with
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Grain prices too low hurt farmers again, with low grain prices and piled-up stockpiles the main causes
China had a bumper grain harvest this year, but farmers are hardly happy, because the sharp drop in grain prices could send their incomes plunging. Since the start of autumn, corn and wheat prices in the main grain-producing areas have all fallen to varying degrees. The drop in corn prices has been especially pronounced, with farm-gate prices falling by an average of
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How can the aquaculture industry integrate into the Agriculture 4.0 era?
With the advancement of science and technology, the Internet of Things and the servitization of manufacturing have ushered in the fourth industrial revolution led by intelligent manufacturing. In 2013, the Hannover Messe in Germany officially proposed the concept of Industry 4.0. This is one of the ten future projects defined in the German government's "High-Tech Strategy 2020"
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Interpreting 5 years of farmer income growth data: the key to a moderately prosperous society lies with rural folk
Not long ago, farmer Xie Suxia of Baolin Village, Jiangtai Township, Xiji County, Guyuan, Ningxia, got a new job sorting vegetables at a vegetable base near the village, and this job increased her monthly income by 2400 yuan. General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "To know whether we have achieved moderate prosperity, the key is to look at rural folk." Ten
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Changes in the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on October 20, 2015
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 20 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 194.50, down 0.33 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 193.92, down 0.59 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at national agricultural products wholesale markets, pork
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