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2014 Fertilizer Review: Scientific Fertilization for Quality and Efficiency Improvement
Editor's note: In 2014, arable land quality and scientific fertilization were frequently mentioned and put on the government's regular work agenda. In recent years, on the one hand, the massive use of chemical inputs has caused soil acidification and a decline in arable land quality; on the other hand, there is a structural surplus of fertilizer production capacity,
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Sixth Industry Lets Farmers Share More of the Benefits from the Integration of the Three Industries
An ordinary apple sells for only a few yuan at the farm gate, but once processed into apple juice, apple cider vinegar or dried apple, its value multiplies; and if it is a branded apple with a distinct "identity," or even a product protected by a geographical indication, its value rises even more. For the New Year holiday, going to orchards in the countryside to pick fruit and relax not only gives city dwellers the pleasure of rural life, but also brings farmers considerable income.
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Why must grain production be stabilized first in agricultural structural adjustment?
Whenever the grain production situation improves, some people always think that structural adjustment means reducing grain production. This way of thinking fails to unify structural adjustment with food security in terms of the political, social and economic accounts. Without food security, all other security loses its foundation.
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On December 30, 2014, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on December 30 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 207.46, up 0.24 points from yesterday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 209.81, up 0.25 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, in national agricultural products wholesale markets, pig
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Talking Farming in the Year of the Horse: A Bumper Grain Harvest
In the Year of the Ox or Horse, farming goes well. Grain growers toil for a year, and Heaven rewards diligence with a bountiful harvest. This year marks the opening year of the new national food security strategy and a crucial year for defending high grain output levels after ten consecutive years of increase. Throughout the year, grain production withstood severe natural
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Agricultural product price reform to enter two-way subsidy channel
The minimum purchase price and temporary storage policies that have lasted for many years are forcing agricultural product price reform to accelerate. Recently, reporters learned from multiple sources that agricultural product price reform may continue to be a focus of the 2015 "No. 1 Document," and is expected to expand the scope of pilot programs as well as pilot varieties. Relevant departments are studying the specific price reform plan.
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Corn starch industry enters consolidation period, industrial landscape faces reshaping
Corn starch industry enters consolidation period Since corn starch futures listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange on December 19, futures prices surged then fell back, basically mildly and rationally reflecting the current operating conditions of the corn starch spot market. Since September, along with the new
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How many farmers today still take pride in working the land
Old farmers, like ordinary folk, will eventually become obsolete words; while the leisure class and the middle class weave romantic fantasies about agricultural life, the farmer's heart still drifts without purpose. Today, "farmer" has already become a rather unfamiliar term, only
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Five major bottlenecks facing the development of water-soluble fertilizers: how can China's industry break through?
On December 21, the "2014 China Water-Soluble Fertilizer Development Symposium," hosted by the China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association, was held in Guangzhou, with more than 100 representatives from water-soluble fertilizer production and operation enterprises, universities, research institutions and government competent departments across the country attending the meeting
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150 Demonstration Counties for Rural Collective "Three Assets" Management to Be Recognized This Year
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Notice on Carrying Out the Creation of the Second Batch of National Demonstration Counties for Rural Collective 'Three Assets' Management," deciding to carry out the creation of the second batch of national demonstration counties for rural collective "Three Assets" management. In 2012, 155 rural collective "
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