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National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index rises and falls on November 24, 2015
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on November 24 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 196.22, up 1.66 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 196.21, up 2.04 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at wholesale markets nationwide for agricultural products, pig
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Accelerating Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation During the 13th Five-Year Plan to Raise the Level of Innovation
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin emphasized at the 2015 China Modern Agriculture Development Forum: Accelerate agricultural science and technology innovation during the 13th Five-Year Plan and improve the efficiency of agricultural science and technology innovation. On November 20-21, the 2015 China Modern Agriculture Development Forum was held in Beijing. Vice Minister of Agriculture and President of the Chinese Agricultural Society
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Why do I still not want to buy grain insurance?
"People don't even have insurance, and you want to insure grain?" a village cadre in Henan Province told a reporter. In recent years, in order to get farming households to insure their own wheat and corn, he has had to go door to door every year to collect premiums, and this is the sentence he hears most. "The villagers have no
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Hefei Hosts China Plant Protection Conference and Pesticide and Equipment Trade Fair
On November 22, the 31st China Plant Protection Information Exchange and Pesticide and Equipment Trade Fair, themed "Scientific Pesticide Use, Green Development," opened in Hefei. Representatives from more than 1,000 domestic and international companies and plant protection experts attended, showcasing modern plant protection technologies and equipment to serve modern
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Why won't the water boil even though there's firewood?
In recent years, there have been more and more pro-farmer policies, and farmers have gained real benefits. But recently, when going to the countryside and entering villages for interviews, I heard some people report: there are more projects, but they always feel that something is lacking. Why? Funds for pro-farmer and poverty alleviation projects are scattered across county development and reform, agriculture, poverty alleviation and other departments.
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Ministry of Finance Supports Agricultural Industrialization: 100 Distinctive Industry Clusters to Take Shape in Three Years
On November 17, the Ministry of Finance issued the "Guiding Opinions on Supporting Agriculture's Advantageous and Distinctive Industries through Comprehensive Agricultural Development to Promote Agricultural Industrialization." According to the guiding opinions, for advantageous and distinctive industries included in the priority support scope of comprehensive agricultural development, through key support and continuous
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Can the Food Dollar Replace the Petrodollar? An In-Depth Analysis
Recently, German-based American scholar William Engdahl, following "The Oil War: Oil Politics Determines the New World Order," published another book titled "The Food Crisis." William Engdahl believes that after the oil and subprime crises, the world's next crisis will be an agricultural product crisis triggered by food prices.
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Central government cumulative special subsidy funds reached 2.6 billion yuan; the subsidy policy hit the pain points
Overview of the implementation of the subsidy policy for primary processing of agricultural products at the production site. Potatoes that were grown through hard work could not be sold for a while, so they had to be placed in crude earthen cellars. Because the storage conditions were too poor, sometimes we could only watch as the potatoes slowly sprouted and rotted. More than one farmer has reported this.
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How to avoid the difficulty of selling grain: this exam question must be answered well
Facing days of continuous rain, Peng Dejun, a major grain grower in Chengtou Township, Sihong County, was full of worry. This 45-year-old farmer planted 4000 mu of rice this year, and by November 22 had harvested only 600 mu. First, he worried that the rain would make the mature rice lodge and turn into a "rotten rice field"; second, he worried that the rice
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Facility agriculture advances through multi-wheel drive: The 14th China Greenhouse
With the theme of "adapting to the new normal of the economy and discovering new market momentum," the 14th China Greenhouse Conference and the 2015 Annual Meeting of China's Greenhouse Horticulture Industry was grandly held on November 12-14 in Zhengzhou, Henan, carrying out around the future of facility agriculture the China Greenhouse 2015 Innovation Achievement Exhibition,
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