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Vegetable labels are dazzling: why do vegetable prices differ tenfold?
Organic vegetables, premium vegetables, healthy vegetables, pollution-free vegetables, green vegetables... Nowadays, anyone buying vegetables is confronted with so many labels, and prices between different labels differ severalfold or even more than tenfold. Consumers say, with so many vegetables, which one to buy
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Changes in the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index on December 30, 2015
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 30 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 201.57, down 0.63 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 202.72, down 0.69 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural wholesale markets
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How can the capacity bottleneck of national variety approval trials be resolved?
In 2016, with the implementation of the new Seed Law, China's seed industry once again entered a new golden period of strategic development opportunities. The National Agricultural Technology Extension and Service Center will fully assist the Seed Management Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture in organizing seed management agencies at all levels nationwide to seriously study and implement the Seed
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Why are jujube farmers cutting down their jujube trees? Market development needs to be accelerated
A snowfall not long ago brought waves of chill to the Lüliang Mountains. Living on the mountain, jujube farmers gazed at patch after patch of jujube groves and could not help shaking their heads in helplessness: these jujube trees that had given them hope of prosperity more than a decade ago now left them deeply disappointed. No one buying jujube, some cutting down trees. Shilou
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Cost-saving and efficiency-boosting techniques for wheat cultivation help farmers cut costs and increase income
Among China's three major grain crops, wheat is the crop with the largest consumption as a staple food, the largest trade volume, and the highest growth rate in per-unit yield. To achieve stable grain output and increased income, and to improve quality and efficiency, in 2016 we will continue to carry out research focused on high wheat yields, cost savings and efficiency gains, and water control and reduced use of pesticides and fertilizers.
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Participation rate in social insurance for agricultural household registration is nearly 20 percentage points lower than for non-agricultural household registration
"Public Opinion Blue Book: China Livelihood Survey Report (2015)" shows that the insurance participation rate for agricultural household registration is nearly 20 percentage points lower than for non-agricultural household registration. China Workers' Network News (reporter Yang Zhaokui) Recently jointly released by the Public Opinion Research Laboratory of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Social Sciences Academic Press, the "
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Belt and Road business opportunities benefit farmers in western China
Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, January 3 (Reporter Tu Guoxi) For farmer Meng Zezhi, New Year's holidays in previous years were part of the winter storage season, but this year's New Year holiday was somewhat different. He and more than 30 other agricultural cooperative representatives gathered for a meeting to prepare early for agricultural contracts worth tens of millions of yuan from Kazakhstan
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Over 200 million mu of deep loosening and land preparation task completed ahead of schedule
Event: Since the beginning of this year, agricultural machinery management departments at all levels have taken agricultural machinery deep loosening and land preparation as an important technical measure to tap the potential for increased grain production. As of November 30, a total of 203 million mu of deep loosening and land preparation had been completed nationwide, overfulfilling the
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Accelerate agricultural transformation and upgrading, improve the quality of agricultural development
Since the 12th Five-Year Plan, remarkable achievements have been made in the development of the crop farming sector, grain output has achieved 12 consecutive increases, production, quality and efficiency have steadily improved, new progress has been made in transforming the agricultural development model, and it has become a highlight of economic and social development. The year 2016 is the opening year of the decisive stage in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
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Top 10 News Stories in China's Grain Economy in 2015
On January 22, the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Establishing and Improving the Provincial Governor Responsibility System for Food Security," clarifying the provincial governor responsibility system for food security. On January 22, the State Council printed and distributed the "Several Opinions on Establishing and Improving the Provincial Governor Responsibility System for Food Security," covering grain production,
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