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What is hidden behind the full liberalization of agricultural product prices?
On November 15 last year, after the State Council executive meeting proposed promoting price reform, the contents of the first batch of price reforms were announced. The state liberalized the prices of 24 goods and services, and price reform took another important step in the direction of marketization. Official of the Price Department of the National Development and Reform Commission
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Fertilizer and pesticide use is expected to achieve zero growth in 5 years
At the Ministry of Agriculture press conference held on the 6th, the Ministry of Agriculture proposed that by 2020, China's agriculture should achieve "one control, two reductions, three basics," namely controlling the total amount of agricultural water use; reducing the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, with fertilizer and pesticide use achieving zero growth; basically achieving the resource utilization of livestock and poultry breeding waste, with all dead livestock and poultry achieving harmless treatment;
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What price should "cabbage price" really be? How can cabbage transform and upgrade?
Editor's note: As the cold winter sets in, Chinese cabbages flood the market, and once again we hit the strange cycle of "too much or too little": when prices are high everyone plants, and when there is too much the price plunges, leaving large volumes unsold and growers anxious. The reason behind it is not complicated: the market is determined by supply and demand. Once the
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How cultivated land is concentrated toward large grain-growing households and other operating entities
International experience shows that a country's focus of attention and policy goals regarding food security will be continuously adjusted along with changes in its own economic development and the international environment. The Central Rural Work Conference held in December 2013 proposed implementing a national food security strategy based on self-reliance, domestic footing, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and technological support, so as to ensure basic self-sufficiency in grains and absolute security of staple food rations.
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In 2014, domestic grain prices continued to rise slightly while remaining stable
In 2014, international prices of bulk agricultural products continued the downward trend of the previous year, while domestic market supply was generally sufficient, prices fell more often than they rose, and imports continued to grow. Grain prices rose slightly while remaining stable. Supported by the minimum purchase price and temporary storage policies, domestic grain prices continued to rise slightly while remaining stable this year.
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Farmland protection: the strictest system must not be shaken
The video conference on the designation of permanent basic farmland and the management of agricultural land for facilities was held on January 5. Li Keqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, made important instructions. The instructions pointed out that China has a large population and little land, and at all times the red line of farmland must be held, and the red line of basic farmland must be held.
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Livestock and poultry farming sentiment on the rise, 2015 market outlook favorable
As of December 31, 2014, the CSI 300 Index rose 52% in 2014, while the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery (Shenwan) tier-one industry index rose 16% cumulatively over the same period, far underperforming the broader market. This is related to the overall national macroeconomic environment in recent years, the weak nature of the agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery industry, relatively high agricultural product capacity and inventories, slow earnings growth of listed agricultural companies, the agricultural product price cycle and expected performance of national agricultural support policies.
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Analysis of the Operational Status of China's Urea Export Market in 2014
Affected by the supply and demand situation for energy and resources, the global nitrogen fertilizer industry landscape is undergoing new changes, with nitrogen fertilizer production shifting to resource-rich areas with lower energy prices such as the Middle East and North America. At the same time, as fertilizer prices rise, fertilizer-consuming countries such as India and Vietnam are prompted to adopt self-sufficiency strategies, and some production facilities are also under construction.
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China relaxes agricultural product prices; 2015 grain target price system will not be expanded
Ning Deytai is the head of the Yunnan Anning Longyuan Flue-cured Tobacco Planting Professional Cooperative. In earlier years he planted several dozen mu of flue-cured tobacco, but because the returns from growing flue-cured tobacco were not even as good as growing vegetables, in recent years he has switched to other crops. As the National Development and Reform Commission announced the cancellation of prices for flue-cured tobacco and other grades of tobacco leaf
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Ratoon rice becomes a technical reserve for safeguarding food security
Years of practice have shown that ratoon rice is a resource-saving and highly efficient rice cropping system, conducive to raising the comprehensive production capacity of paddy fields and increasing the multiple cropping index of paddy fields. In recent years, Youxi County, Fujian Province, has planted nearly 100,000 mu of ratoon rice annually, with an average main crop yield of 6
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