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Farmland Water Conservancy Put to the Test in a Year of Severe Drought
Since entering July, a severe drought rarely seen in decades has been spreading across central and northeastern China. According to reports, 30.1 million mu of crops have been affected in Liaoning, and in some places, hundreds of thousands of mu of farmland have suffered total crop failure in contiguous patches. In Henan, the "granary of the Central Plains," the drought-affected area involves 13 provincially administered cities including Zhengzhou and Pingdingshan
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Corn prices rise due to drought, meat and egg prices follow, pushing up CPI
At the beginning of this year, Lu Yonghe, a farmer in Xingliu Village, Suo Town, Huantai County, bought more than ten tons of corn at 1.04 yuan/jin. However, he now somewhat regrets it. He regrets not buying more at that time; now he cannot buy any even if he wants to. On August 19, talking about corn prices
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Pollution control in livestock farming is urgent, and method and cost are key
Recently, Yan Junfang, chairman of Yangling Benxiang Agricultural Industry Group, has been deeply troubled. Due to issues left over from the past, a farm under the group that can hold 200,000 pigs at full capacity has run into a thorny environmental protection problem. It is reported that the farm is only 170 meters away from the nearest surrounding village at its closest point. In the hot summer, the stench from the pig farm directly affects the daily lives of the villagers.
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Large-scale agriculture should follow a Chinese-style development path
In reviewing the statements of domestic scholars and local officials, whenever they discuss the modernization of farmers and agriculture, they all say in a very firm tone that the way out is large-scale operation, industrialization or capitalization. However, as time goes on, when faced with a series of problems that run counter to our expectations
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Livestock farming must not come at the expense of the ecological environment
A large-scale pig farm located in Pingshui Town, Keqiao District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, completed its closure inspection and acceptance several days ago. The farm had 259 pigs on hand and was built at the foot of a hill by a reservoir. The owner, Wei Jianjiang, had originally planned to raise pigs for the long term, so he built 4 pig houses covering 800 sq m. At the beginning of this year
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Seed production bases to undergo special inspection by the Ministry of Agriculture
On August 18, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture that, in order to strengthen source-level governance of the seed market and severely crack down on illegal acts such as unlicensed production at seed production bases and variety counterfeit-label infringement, the Ministry of Agriculture is scheduled to launch a special inspection of hybrid corn and hybrid rice seed production bases in late August.
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Promote the grass-field rotation model and vigorously develop grassland agriculture
Recently, the China-US Forage Technology and Products Exchange Seminar was held in Beijing. Experts at the meeting proposed that China has already begun promoting the grass-field rotation model in agricultural areas, indicating that developing a "grain-and-forage balanced" grassland agriculture suits China's food-structure agricultural system. China is a country with vast grasslands
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Rise and Fall of the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index on August 21, 2014
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 21 the national agricultural products wholesale price index was 209.43, down 0.18 points from yesterday, of which the "shopping basket" products wholesale price index was 212.27, down 0.12 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at the national agricultural products wholesale market, pork
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The Hometown of Hickory Nuts Goes Online, Selling 1 Billion a Year
Whether in coastal regions or the western borderlands, the county-level economy is colliding and merging with e-commerce. E-commerce, represented by Taobao, is penetrating into the daily lives of residents in cities and counties in various ways, giving rise to new concepts such as the Top 100 E-commerce Counties or
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China's annual post-harvest grain loss exceeds 100 billion jin, and conservation brooks no delay
The Anhui Modern Grain Logistics Center has not only built tall flat warehouses, squat silos and other new types of storage facilities, but also adopted mechanical ventilation grain storage technology, pressed-cover airtight grain storage technology, circulation fumigation technology, grain cooling technology, computer-based grain condition monitoring technology and grain
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