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60 Years of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives: Rooted in Rural Areas, Serving Farmers
From going village to village and household to household to promote industrial goods going to the countryside and agricultural products entering the cities, to establishing specialized cooperatives; from agricultural input supply to renewable resource recycling; from contracted ploughing and planting and land trusteeship to cooperative finance... In recent years, the national supply and marketing cooperative system has seized opportunities such as the building of a new countryside, continuously deepened institutional reform, improved service networks, expanded service functions, and actively explored new paths toward developing into comprehensive service organizations.
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Is growing grain actually worth it? High grain yields do not equal higher farmer incomes
China's number one wheat county welcomes a twelfth consecutive summer grain increase, yet a major grain county is not equal to a strong agricultural county, and high grain yields are not equal to higher farmer incomes. Even when grain is grown to the utmost, farmers' incomes are still not high, and Hua County is not content to accept this. Sharply raising grain prices is unrealistic; to both stabilize grain and increase income, Hua County is exploring a path to comprehensively upgrade agricultural industrialization.
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How the livestock industry can seize transformation opportunities to achieve new improvements
Huai'an City is a major livestock production area in Jiangsu Province, and currently faces a good opportunity for the transformation from traditional livestock farming to modern livestock farming. How to seize the transformation opportunity and achieve a new improvement in the overall development level of the livestock industry is an important topic for Huai'an City's livestock work citywide in the future. To
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The big harvest test is here. Can we withstand the test?
The joy of the summer grain harvest has not yet faded, and farmers are once again busy with the autumn grain in the fields. Whether the whole year's grain harvest can be a success still depends mainly on the autumn grain. And whether the autumn grain can be secured depends on many things: whether the planted area can remain stable with some increase, whether the various support policies can be implemented in place, whether it can withstand the test of erratic climate and frequent outbreaks of pests and diseases, and so on. Among these, whether it can withstand the test of a good harvest is an even more severe test for us.
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On July 25, 2014, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 25 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 205.03, down 1.02 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 207.00, down 1.19 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets
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On July 28, 2014, the "National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on July 28 the National Agricultural Wholesale Price Index was 207.17, up 2.14 points from last Friday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 209.40, up 2.40 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, at agricultural wholesale markets nationwide
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How to carry out pest and disease prevention and control for tropical crops after a severe typhoon?
This year's No. 9 super typhoon Rammasun made landfall successively in Hainan, Guangdong and Guangxi on July 18-19, with maximum wind force of 17. The areas the typhoon passed through experienced violent winds and rainstorms, causing severe damage to crops such as banana, lychee, mango and sisal. The high temperatures after the disaster can very easily
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China's grain prices rank among the world's highest, and high-price market-support purchases have led to grain piling up in warehouses
China is not the world's most developed country, yet China's grain prices have for several years running remained higher than the international market. Large-scale grain and oil reserve purchases have kept China's grain prices rising steadily, and the China Grain Reserves Corporation (hereinafter "Sinograin"), which handles the grain and oil reserve purchases, has maintained a relatively
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Modern fisheries showed sound development in the first half of the year, opening up a new situation
Since 2014, fisheries departments at all levels across the country have earnestly studied and deeply grasped the spirit of State Council Document No. [2013] 11 and the State Council's national teleconference on modern fisheries development, carried out implementation in light of local conditions, seized the momentum, and opened up a new situation in modern fisheries development
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Can organic farming only ever be a personal lifestyle?
In 2000, An Jinlei, a farmer in Dongzilong Village, Matun Town, Zaoqiang County, Hebei Province, contracted 40 mu of land in the village and began practicing his organic farming of "no pesticides, no chemical fertilizers, no herbicides," trying to pick up traditional farming methods. An Jinlei used fertilizer bags to collect
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