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How can standardized large-scale breeding be advanced under the new normal?
The Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Increasing the Intensity of Reform and Innovation and Accelerating the Construction of Agricultural Modernization was recently issued. This is the 12th consecutive year that the No. 1 Central Document has focused on the "three rural" issues. It states: increase support for the construction of standardized large-scale breeding farms (communities) for pigs, dairy cows, beef cattle, and mutton sheep, implement the livestock and poultry improved breed project, accelerate the advancement of large-scale, intensive, and standardized livestock and poultry breeding, enhance the competitiveness of the animal husbandry industry, and improve animal disease prevention and control policies.
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Central Document No. 1 Sets Out Seven Areas of Agricultural Reform
The 2015 Central Document No. 1, "Several Opinions on Stepping Up Reform and Innovation and Accelerating Agricultural Modernization," was issued recently. The document states that this year's agriculture and rural work must follow the overall requirements of stabilizing grain production and increasing incomes, improving quality and efficiency, and pursuing innovation-driven development, and must continue to comprehensively deepen
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Yuan Longping Talks About His Year of the Sheep Wish: Striving to Achieve the Super Rice Per-Hectare Target Ahead of Schedule
Yuan Longping (third from right) inspects rice ears in a super rice experimental field in Hunan Province. Photo by Zeng Yong (file photo) The target of 16 tons of super rice per hectare was originally planned for 2018, but we are striving to break through next year! The Year of the Sheep is almost here, and our super rice is the bellwether.
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Agricultural machinery is expected to become the pioneer of agriculture going global
As domestic and international environmental conditions change and the deep-seated contradictions accumulated through long-term extensive management gradually emerge, the production costs of major domestic agricultural products are continuously rising, the agricultural ecological environment is damaged, and resources such as arable land and fresh water are strained. How to realize China's agriculture going global
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Rural demand is a tremendous force driving economic transformation and development
Overcapacity is a prominent problem in the current new normal of China's economic development. At present, whether in the energy industry, processing and manufacturing industry, or the construction and building materials industry, there exists overcapacity to varying degrees. Overcapacity creates large stockpiles of surplus products. Digesting ex
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Why Export Garlic, Chosen for Quality, Was Returned
Recently, a batch of garlic from Shandong exported to South Korea was returned, and the garlic farmers suffered huge losses. So what exactly was the reason for the return? When facing South Korea and other countries with similarly high standards, strict requirements and severe trade protection, how should garlic farmers control risks? This time
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China's high-efficiency water-saving irrigation area will increase by more than 20 million mu this year
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 24 (Reporters Yu Wenjing, Chen Mengyang) - To consolidate the foundation of food security and make scientific use of precious water resources, China will speed up the construction of farmland water conservancy this year, adding more than 20 million mu of high-efficiency water-saving irrigation area. This was learned by the reporters on the 24th from the Ministry of Water Resources.
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Ministry of Agriculture Deploys Drought Relief and Spring Management Work, Strengthens Guidance and Services to Advance Scientific Drought Relief
"Start of Spring" has passed, and spring field management is unfolding from south to north. Since December last year, most of the northern winter wheat region has had no effective precipitation for more than 60 consecutive days, with temperatures 1-2°C higher than normal, and surface soil moisture in some wheat fields is poor, with signs of drought emerging. According to the China Meteorological Administration, in spring the temperature in the northern winter wheat region is expected to be close to or higher than the same period in normal years, and some areas may experience relatively severe spring drought. On February 13, the Ministry of Agriculture urgently deployed the current drought relief and spring management work, requiring all localities to conscientiously implement the spirit of the national video conference on spring field management and spring plowing preparations, with a high degree of self-awareness and firm confidence, base themselves on fighting disasters to secure a bumper harvest, strengthen responsibility and ensure implementation, and go all out to win the tough battle of drought relief and spring management, so as to gain the initiative for securing a summer grain harvest.
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Officially Approved Grain Seeds Snubbed, "Running Points and Delivering Envelopes" Hides a Corruption Chain
In this year's No. 1 Central Document, food security remains the top priority, and food security is inseparable from the promotion of improved seeds. However, when Ban Yue Tan reporters conducted research in the border areas of Hubei-Henan and Hebei-Henan, they found that unauthorized gray seeds could be seen everywhere on the seed market.
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A Complete Guide to New-Type Agricultural Modernization with Chinese Characteristics
Interview Guest: Zheng Fengtian, Professor at the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University of China. Interview Host: Zhang Liying. Editor's Note: Premier Li Keqiang published an article titled "Taking Reform and Innovation as the Driving Force to Accelerate Agricultural Modernization" in the 4th issue of Qiushi in 2015.
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