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In 2015, China's total summer grain output was 141.066 million tons, up 3.3% year on year
This year's harvest is much better than last year's, with the average yield per mu reaching more than 1,000 jin. Luo Yingli, a large-scale grain grower in Jintang Village, Wanggang Town, Yingshang County, Anhui Province, and his family, who are busy with autumn field management, are still immersed in the joy of this year's bumper summer grain harvest. The national
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The Dilemma of Major Grain-Producing Counties: "Others Eat, We Subsidize"
Years of consecutive grain output increases have not dispelled the worries of major grain-producing counties. A recent survey by Economic Information Daily reporters in three major grain-producing counties (cities) in Hunan - Xiangxiang City, Taojiang County and Taoyuan County - found that major grain-producing areas are generally facing difficulties such as fiscal strain, diminishing incentives for grain production, and rapid deterioration of the agricultural ecological environment. Officials in charge of grain production in major grain-producing counties (cities) said the current model of promoting grain production through over-reliance on "administrative coercion" is no longer sustainable, and major grain-producing counties (districts) generally lack internal motivation. The reason some places still keep the "major grain-producing county" label is merely a sense of "honor." If this situation is not changed, grain production could face "big problems" in the coming years.
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State Council General Office issues document to accelerate the transformation of agricultural development modes
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 7 (dispatch) - Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Transformation of Agricultural Development Modes" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). This is the first important document at the national level to systematically deploy work on transforming agricultural development modes. The "Opinions" point
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Rice minimum purchase price policy boosts rice prices, but farmers' income growth still needs policies in place
Editor's note: Starting July 28, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan and Hubei provinces successively launched the 2015 early indica rice minimum purchase price procurement, easing the brief pressure on market purchase prices in the early period, and the policy's price-support effect is gradually emerging. However, constrained by storage conditions, farming schedules, etc.,
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In recent years, China's microbial fertilizer industry has developed rapidly, with a good growth momentum
Microbial fertilizer, also known as biological fertilizer, biofertilizer, bacterial fertilizer or inoculant, etc. Figuratively speaking, microbial fertilizer is "microbes + fertilizer", because on the one hand microbial fertilizer contains organic matter, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients essential for crop growth, and at the same time the product also contains a large amount of beneficial
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Major pests and diseases of autumn grain crops enter the peak outbreak period
At present, it is precisely the critical period for the growth of autumn grain crops such as rice, corn and potatoes. According to monitoring by the National Crop Major Pest and Disease Forecasting Network, many pests and diseases such as the rice "two migration" pests, rice blast, corn borer and potato late blight are showing a trend of rapidly increasing occurrence area and gradually worsening damage.
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How can land better improve farmers' wellbeing?
Land is a basic factor of economic development, and also the lifeblood of farmers. How to enable farmers who guard the "golden rice bowl" of land to better enjoy the wellbeing brought by land in the process of modernization is certainly a very realistic and major topic. This requires distinguishing which farmers are
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How can China's grass seed industry switch to a "Chinese chip"
In the process of adjusting the structure and transforming the mode, the area of artificially planted grass in China will continue to increase. By 2020 it will reach 350 million mu, the area of high-quality forage grass seed will reach more than 60%, the demand for grass seed will reach 1 million tons, and the demand for high-quality cultivated forage grass seed will reach
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How can the pathways for realizing farmers' usufructuary rights over residential land be improved?
The "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening Reform" adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Party proposed granting farmers more property rights, of which farmers' usufructuary rights over residential land are an important component. Along with the processes of industrialization, urbanization and reform and opening up
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An Analysis of the Important Position and Role of Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism
Since entering the new century, leisure agriculture and rural tourism have flourished in our country, consistently maintaining double-digit growth, and in some key areas it can even be described as explosive development. However, for such a rapidly emerging new industry, some places still
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