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Organic food is expensive but its authenticity is inconsistent. Can consumers trust it?
Organic vegetables, organic rice, organic eggs. Nowadays, various organic foods are expensive but their authenticity is inconsistent. Please see the investigation our reporter conducted deep in the market. Organic food, can we trust it? True and false confusion: Are organic foods easy to recognize? The concept of organic food is vague,
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Cotton price reform opens up space for futures market innovation, price fluctuations will become the norm
The most core effect released by the cotton target price reform pilot is that the market mechanism is gradually playing a decisive role in cotton price formation. Zhang Fan, chairman of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, said this at the recently held 2014 Zhengzhou Agricultural Products (Cotton) Futures Forum. He introduced
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China's Arable Land Quality Is Worrying, with Insufficient Inherent Soil Fertility
Arable land is the foundation of agriculture. Judging from a survey conducted by a China Economic Times reporter over more than half a month, at present, China's arable land has both a quantity problem and a quality problem. First, in terms of quantity, China's arable land area is 1.826 billion mu, less than 1.4 mu per capita, only
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Ensuring food security: the Chinese people's rice bowl must always be held firmly in our own hands
On January 10, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference was grandly held in the solemn Great Hall of the People. The achievement "Research and Application of Two-Line Hybrid Rice Technology" obtained by our research team won the Special Prize for Science and Technology Progress. When presenting the award, General Secretary Xi Jinping said to me kindly
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Report on the 2014 Summer-Autumn Agricultural Products Online Purchase and Sales Matching Conference
The Ministry of Commerce's 2014 Summer-Autumn Agricultural Products Online Purchase and Sales Matching Conference concluded successfully on September 25. With the close cooperation and careful organization of commerce departments at all levels and the distance education offices of Party committee organization departments, over the course of one month, a total of 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government) and 625 counties (cities and districts) nationwide
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Tieguanyin Autumn Tea Hits the Market, Mid-Range Tea Accounts for 70% of Sales
After National Day, autumn tea has fully hit the Guangzhou market. A New Express reporter visited several major tea markets in Guangzhou and learned that the current autumn tea market is dominated by mid-range Tieguanyin. Tea merchant Chen Chao, who specializes in tea from Anxi, Fujian, told the New Express reporter that compared with previous years, this year's autumn
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On October 22, 2014, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on October 22 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 199.24, down 0.22 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 199.88, down 0.21 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market pig
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After a bumper harvest, farmers still face three worries
This year, grain production in Linyi County, Shandong Province, is encouraging. The average summer wheat yield per unit area was 584.7 kg, with a total output of 496,000 tons, achieving a "twelfth consecutive increase" in summer grain production. The autumn corn yield is expected to average 609.5 kg per unit area, with a total output of about 517,000 tons. Linyi County's total annual grain output
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China Green Food Consumer Price Index edges down month-on-month
According to the latest monitoring data from Xinhua (Daqing) International Petroleum Information Center, in September 2014 the China Green Food Consumer Price Index stood at 103.12, down 0.18% month-on-month. Overall, affected by factors such as the relatively ample supply of agricultural products during the harvest season, vegetables
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A bumper corn harvest is a foregone conclusion, but market risks warrant vigilance
Golden October is exactly the harvest season in Heilongjiang, and as far as the eye can see there are endless stretches of corn and soybeans. The vast black soil has upheld this region's status as China's largest grain-producing area through its bounty. A reporter recently followed an inspection team from Harbin to Suihua, through Bei'an, past Wudalianchi, as far north as Heihe, then back through Nenjiang, Nehe and Mo Banner in Inner Mongolia, and finally returning to Harbin via Qiqihar, Longjiang and Daqing, a journey of 2,500 kilometers. Through on-site surveys, visits to farming households, seed dealers and grain purchasers, and in-depth discussions with large-scale grain growers, planting associations, state-owned grain depots and processing enterprises, it was learned that the Northern Granary will again welcome a bumper year.
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