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Breeding work for niche crops should not be neglected
How long does it take to breed a new crop variety? Older-generation breeders often tell me: ten years to breed one variety. This is no exaggeration. Even with off-season propagation in the south to add generations, traditional biological breeding techniques still require breeders to spend eight to ten years to select and breed a satisfactory
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The nursery stock industry enters a new normal, where survival challenges and green opportunities coexist
For a long time, most nursery stock practitioners have focused only on which varieties are profitable to grow, which varieties are the best, and which fast-growing varieties exist, concentrating all their attention on how to make a quick profit. As a result, problems have emerged such as a sharp decline in nursery stock sales, rising costs, and a highly saturated market
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List of demonstration cooperatives that passed monitoring approved by the national joint conference on cooperatives
On December 10, the inter-ministerial joint conference on the development of farmers' cooperatives nationwide held its second liaison meeting. The meeting heard reports on the organization and review of monitoring for cooperative demonstration cooperatives, in principle approved the list of demonstration cooperatives that passed monitoring and will be awarded the title of national demonstration cooperatives, and
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Yu Jianrong: Internet Plus Agriculture Should Benefit Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers
Because of the inequality between rural e-commerce consumption and export sales, the dividends of e-commerce development have failed to benefit "agriculture, rural areas and farmers." Moreover, inequality also exists between internet oligopolies and small businesses, and rural e-commerce seems to be gradually becoming the new favorite of internet oligopolies. Therefore, the government should lead the construction of networked rural e-commerce platforms, form economies of scale, open up the channel market, and reduce transaction costs; break the unequal state between rural e-commerce consumption and export sales, and extend the dividends of e-commerce development to rural areas, agriculture and farmers. In the process of leading the construction of these platforms, the government should provide more services and less regulation.
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China's wheat breeding for high quality, high yield and water saving needs to be strengthened
At present, China's high-quality and high-yield, water-saving wheat varieties still cannot well meet production demand. Liu Xu, academician and vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, expressed this view at the 7th National Wheat Genetics and Breeding Academic Symposium recently held in Zhengzhou, Henan Province. Liu Xu believes that in recent
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China's flower sea construction is developing at a spurt; sound development requires a differentiated path
In recent years, although flower sea construction has only just started in China, it has shown a momentum of spurt-style rapid development. Although it has played an important role in promoting the transformation and upgrading of the flower industry as well as the development of leisure agriculture and flower tourism, industry insiders point out: blind
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The level of agricultural mechanization continues to rise steadily
Since the beginning of this year, the national agricultural mechanization system, in accordance with the overall requirements of stabilizing grain production and increasing farmers' incomes, improving quality and efficiency, and driving development through innovation, has focused on implementing and improving policies, cultivating and developing market entities, adjusting and optimizing the structure of equipment, making breakthroughs in mechanizing weak links, and promoting advanced and applicable technologies, and has vigorously
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Vegetable brand building becomes the pressing task for the world's largest vegetable-producing country
On December 7, with the support of the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the First China Vegetable Brand Conference, jointly hosted by the China Vegetable Circulation Association and the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and co-organized by the Guangxi Agricultural Products Circulation Association, was held in Nanning. The conference lasted
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State Farms Accelerate the Building of an Agricultural Product Quality Traceability System to Safeguard Safety from Field to Table
The quality and safety of agricultural products bear on the health and lives of the people, on long-term economic development, and on social harmony and stability. As the backbone and representative of the state-owned agricultural economy, and as the national team safeguarding national food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, the state farm system has always
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How to build a cotton production model in the Yangtze River Basin? The Ministry of Agriculture is exploring
Due to the growth of cotton consumption within the Yangtze River Basin, both the local cotton purchase volume and export volume have shown a declining trend. However, the cotton production efficiency in this region is higher than the national average, and the conditions for developing cotton production are favorable. In addition, the Yangtze River Basin is also an important textile industry
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