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All major breeding counties must establish professional harmless treatment facilities
The Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Finance, and the China Insurance Regulatory Commission jointly held a teleconference today on the mechanism for the harmless treatment of dead livestock and poultry. The meeting required that all regions fully advance the development of the harmless treatment mechanism for dead livestock and poultry, and strive to ensure that dead livestock and poultry basically achieve harmless treatment, fundamentally solving the problem of arbitrarily discarding dead livestock and poultry.
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Agriculture is aging rapidly - who will feed us in the future?
Not long ago, at the Southern Seed Industry Exchange Conference, the participants were basically agricultural people over fifty years old. In front of the booth of the China Seed Industry Online Exchange Exhibition, many agricultural people did not know how to scan the WeChat QR code. Nowadays, in an era of increasingly developed technology, ag
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How can grain growers be so confident?
The harvest is not bad, averaging over 1,240 jin per mu. Sha Cairong, 46, standing in a warehouse stacked with rice at the village entrance, told the reporter, look, this is the rice from over 100 mu, to be processed into milled rice and then sold. The rice from the remaining 250 mu has already been sold, third-grade mixed rice
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The issues of agriculture, rural areas and farmers remain the key focus and difficulty in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects
Practitioners in China's agriculture, rural areas and farmers sector, as well as people from all walks of life who follow and support the development of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, recently gathered at the Yangling Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone to attend the China Agricultural Investment Matchmaking Conference and the China Moderately Prosperous Village Visits Shaanxi (Yangling) event, focusing on cooperation with the Silk Road Economic Belt
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China's 30 million mu of coastal tidal flats will become a reserve grain barn
These are now the last few days of rice harvest. At Shuntai Farm in Sheyang County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, on the shore of the Yellow Sea, a formerly abandoned saltworks has become ten thousand mu of rice paddies, with a salt content above 3 and as high as 8, and only wild salt-tolerant plants such as seepweed, reeds and triangular bulrush on the field ridges.
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How should the target price reform for agricultural products be carried out?
The predicament and direction of the reform of the target price system for agricultural products. China's food security implements the strategy of "taking self-sufficiency as the mainstay, basing itself on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support," firmly holding the rice bowl in our own hands. This year's No. 1 Document proposed the target price system for agricultural products, and through price mechanism reform, smoothing the relationship between supply and demand is of great significance to ensuring China's food security. What is the target price system for agricultural products? It means that the government sets a target price for agricultural products. When the actual market price is higher than the target price, low-income consumers are subsidized; when the market price is lower than the target price, producers are subsidized according to the price difference. In 2014, pilot programs for target price subsidies for soybeans in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia and for cotton in Xinjiang were launched, exploring pilot programs for target price insurance for agricultural products such as grain and live pigs, and carrying out pilot programs for marketing loans for entities operating grain production on a large scale. If the pilot programs are further expanded in the future, many unresolved difficulties still lie ahead, mainly including:
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Small grains also have a big future: why are farmers unwilling to grow them?
When people talk about miscellaneous grains, they habitually attach the word "small" to them. Compared with field crops, miscellaneous grains are mainly intercropped along ditch edges and embankments and on dry slopes in mountainous areas, with small planting areas, and they are not staple foods, so they are called "small miscellaneous grains." In the past, Gaoqing County, Shandong Province, once widely grew small miscellaneous grains, especially intercropped with cotton. But now, cotton fields in Gaoqing County have shrunk sharply, and the area of miscellaneous grains has plummeted accordingly. The once-flourishing scene of every household growing cotton and every household enjoying the fragrance of miscellaneous grains is hard to see again.
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Ministry of Agriculture Issues Notice to Further Promote the Sustainable and Healthy Development of Leisure Agriculture
This website news: Leisure agriculture is an important livelihood industry and a new form of consumption, and has made positive contributions to improving agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' incomes, improving the rural environment, and advancing economic and social development in China. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a notice making comprehensive arrangements for further promoting the sustainable and healthy development of leisure agriculture.
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What are the three red lines for rural land transfer in China? Zheng Fengtian explains
In recent years, rural land transfer in China has developed rapidly, but some problems have also emerged, including forced transfer and the one-sided pursuit of transfer scale and speed, which have infringed on farmers' lawful land rights and interests. Problems such as non-grain production and non-agricultural use caused by capital going to the countryside are also quite prominent
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The problem of virtual ownership of rural collective assets cannot be ignored
An important reason for the frequent occurrence of "village official corruption" incidents is the virtual ownership of rural collective assets. In the current context of comprehensively advancing the rule of law, promoting the reform of the share rights and powers of rural collective assets will help curb "village official corruption" and strengthen the collective econ
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