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Food wasted on Chinese dining tables each year is equivalent to more than 200 million people's grain ration for a year
Wu Zidan, deputy director of the State Administration of Grain, recently revealed that China has a large amount of waste in grain production, circulation, processing, consumption and other links, and the loss and waste caused each year in grain storage, transportation and processing alone amounts to as much as 70 billion jin. Losses in the consumption link
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What development challenges do large-scale growers face after transitioning to family farm owners?
Editor's Note: Recently, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out in a speech at the FAO that agricultural modernization should be advanced on the basis of family management. Promoting appropriately scaled operations and developing modern agriculture on the basis of family management will help better feed China and also contribute to world food
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How Capital Adapts to Agriculture's Slow Logic
Can a giant accustomed to rapid expansion adapt to the slow logic of agricultural production, and can it settle into the low-return norm of agriculture and return to a quiet, detached state of mind? Only time will tell. Recently, the capital tentacles of the well-known real estate enterprise Evergrande Group extended into the agricultural sector, high-
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Organic Agriculture Professional Committee of the China Green Food Association Officially Established
The Organic Agriculture Professional Committee of the China Green Food Association was recently established. Mr. Ander Leu, President of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, sent a congratulatory letter for the establishment of the Organic Agriculture Professional Committee and the convening of its working meeting, and expressed hope that the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements and the China Organic Agriculture Professional Committee could establish a long-term and fruitful cooperative relationship in the future.
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Five Measures to Ensure Food Security: The Food Law Should Be Enacted as Soon as Possible
The "Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Plan for Food Security (2008-2020)" has been more than half implemented. When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected [relevant areas] last year, he said: food security must rely on ourselves. This year's Central Document No. 1 even puts food security in the first place. Looking at the speeches of city and county party secretaries, it is
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Super rice sets a new target: 16 tons per hectare within 5 years
Yuan Longping, the "father of hybrid rice," said on the 21st at the Xiangjiang Forum held in Wangcheng, Hunan, that after achieving a major breakthrough in the fourth-phase super rice project, he hopes to continue with the fifth-phase research, and suggested setting the fifth-phase target at 16 tons per hectare, with a plan to raise super rice yields to this new level within 5 years.
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How targeted poverty alleviation solves the problem of people competing to be recognized as poor households
Truly poor? Competing to be poor? The challenge of targeted poverty alleviation remains to be solved. In order to fulfill the national requirement of "truly alleviating poverty and helping the truly poor," Chongqing Municipality in recent years has provided targeted assistance to poor households through poverty identification, differentiated assistance, and dynamic management, improving the precision of poverty alleviation,
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The Role of Urban Leadership and Development Paths in Rural Reform
Land transfer is the third market gate between urban and rural areas. Comparatively speaking, the first two gates - the markets for agricultural sideline products and rural labor - both broke through from the rural side first, "encircling the cities from the countryside," and only then moved from countryside to city, forming the city's markets for agricultural produce and migrant workers.
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China is set to stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, with the volume expected to reach about 4
Industry analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year, the Chinese government may stockpile corn in large quantities for the third consecutive year, because domestic demand is unlikely to recover quickly and a bumper harvest has left supply ample. China is the world's second-largest corn consumer; analysts say that in the 2014/15 marketing year
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How can family urbanization be advanced? Five suggestions for reference
China's urbanization differs from the family-led population migration of other market economy countries; instead, it is rural migrant workers working and integrating into cities. Although the large number of rural people who have entered cities are statistically counted as urban population, society "takes without giving" to the rural population, enterprises "use without supporting" the rural population, and migrant workers themselves "move without migrating," resulting in the "semi-urbanization" phenomenon in China's social development.
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