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How did the potato take the path to becoming a staple food? It was already introduced to China 400 years ago
In early 2015, the potato, known scientifically as Solanum tuberosum, suddenly became a hot topic. At a seminar titled "Strategy for Developing Potatoes as a Staple Food," officials from the Ministry of Agriculture said that in the coming years, China would launch a strategy to make potatoes a staple food, and the potato would become another staple food after rice, wheat, and corn.
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Accelerated Land Transfer Boosts Intensive Agricultural Operations
Taoyuan County is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, with a total area of 4,442 square kilometers and 1.338 million mu of cultivated land, making it a typical major agricultural county. In recent years, following the concept of modern agricultural development to expand scale, improve quality, and strengthen brands, we have made rural land transfer the central task of our work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.
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Why do farmers gradually leave the land?
China is an agricultural country; the land has fed us, and farmers are kind and hardworking. But for a long time, the countryside has been the most backward place, and farmers the poorest group of people. Take my hometown as an example: there are no mineral deposits there, no industry, and the limited land, after its potential was exploited to the extreme,
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The road to making potatoes a staple grain is not smooth; no new subsidies for now
The proposal to make potatoes a staple grain is currently only a departmental opinion of the Ministry of Agriculture, and has not been elevated to the national level or become a joint initiative of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and other departments; many people have expressed confusion over the Ministry of Agriculture's hasty rewriting of the definition of staple grain. The road to making potatoes a staple grain
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In 2014, the national total grain output reached 607.10 million tons, an increase of 0.9%
The National Bureau of Statistics released data on the 20th. According to preliminary calculations, the gross domestic product (GDP) for the full year of 2014 was 63,646.3 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% over the previous year at comparable prices. Among this, the national total grain output last year reached 607.10 million tons, an increase of 5.16 million tons over the previous year, up 0.9%. Data
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Target Price Reform Helps Restructure and Transform the Cotton Industry
In 2014, China launched a pilot reform of the cotton target price in Xinjiang, and at the same time abolished the temporary cotton stockpiling policy nationwide. How is the pilot reform progressing? What results have been achieved? What room for improvement remains in actual practice? On these questions, the reporter interviewed
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Poverty alleviation work should also actively explore new paths
The issue of poverty alleviation has always been a hot topic that the state attaches importance to and the people care about. Every year the state and the various provinces and cities spend great effort to help poor areas and poor groups escape poverty. However, in recent years, the media have exposed some places where, after keeping their "poverty caps," banners were hung to celebrate, revealing that those doing the poverty alleviation had misjudged the situation and that the targets of poverty alleviation had a dependent mindset.
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How to Narrow the Urban-Rural Income Gap and Support Urbanization Development
Urbanization is a powerful driver of national economic and social development. The urbanization level of Liaoning Province has always been at the forefront nationwide, but along with the process of urbanization development, the income distribution gap between urban and rural residents in our province remains relatively large, and urban and rural incomes have not kept pace with the urbanization level.
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Information technology for land transfer, building a trustworthy platform
Now when people talk about land transfer, one word describes it: hot! Authoritative data show that, as of the end of June 2014, nearly 1/3 of the country's contracted farmland operated by households had been transferred. According to information disclosed by a professional land transfer website, the area of land posted and the transaction volume in 2014, compared with 2012, had average annual growth rates of 178.4% and 155.0% respectively.
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Farm machinery safety supervision strengthened, five provinces, regions and municipalities in North China coordinate their efforts
Recently, the competent departments for farm machinery in five provinces, regions and municipalities - Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia - jointly signed in Beijing the "Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia Farm Machinery Safety Supervision Coordinated Cooperation Agreement", taking the first step in inter-provincial coordination and joint action for farm machinery safety in North China.
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