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How to Find New Growth Points in the Context of Food Security
At the start of the new year, the public discussion about potato becoming the fourth major staple crop has attracted much attention. Relevant leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture estimate that by 2020, more than 50% of China's potatoes may be consumed as a staple food. The potato planting area will increase from the current 80 million mu to 150 million mu. Zhejiang
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March 5, 2015 National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index Month-on-Month Change
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on March 5 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 209.53, down 1.00 points from yesterday, of which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 212.19, down 1.09 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at national agricultural products wholesale markets, pork
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How can the efficient use of agricultural water resources be advanced?
China's agricultural water use efficiency is extremely low, causing much water resources to be wasted. In response to this problem, the Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association submitted a proposal to this year's Two Sessions on vigorously promoting the efficient use of agricultural water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. The proposal states that China's agricultural annual water consumption is about
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Li Keqiang points out that new breakthroughs must be made in advancing urbanization
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 5 (Dispatch) - Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council, when speaking about coordinately promoting stable economic growth and structural optimization, emphasized that new breakthroughs must be made in advancing a new type of urbanization. Adhere to a people-centered approach, focus on solving the problem of the three 100 million people, and give full play to urbanization
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Li Keqiang stresses accelerating agricultural modernization
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 5 (dispatch) - When speaking about coordinating efforts to promote stable economic growth and structural optimization, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council stressed the need to accelerate agricultural modernization. The position of agriculture, rural areas and farmers as the top priority must remain unshakable, the transformation of the agricultural development model must be accelerated, and agriculture must be made stronger,
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Japanese rice purchases are not a mass-market consumer behavior
Recently, news of Chinese people traveling to Japan to buy high-priced rice has drawn public attention. Niu Dun, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Vice Minister of Agriculture, told reporters on the 4th that this is not a mass behavior, but mainly Chinese tourists buying local specialty products, and it need not be elevated to the level of food
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Who is really to blame for the cross-border rush to buy rice?
Regarding the popularity of Japanese rice, after the news of Chinese tourists frantically snapping it up was exposed, netizens almost unanimously criticized the Chinese tourists who rushed to buy rice for being too "wealthy," and even elevated it to the level of "patriotism," beginning to worry about whether it would affect the domestic rice-growing industry.
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Why should agricultural subsidies be decoupled from prices?
"If we still respond to the current 'three rural issues' in the traditional agricultural way, there is no way out." Ke Bingsheng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and president of China Agricultural University, who has long studied agricultural economics, believes that China should abandon the use of price support measures to subsidize agriculture, except
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Modern agriculture in the high-latitude cold region welcomes a spring of development
In March, Beijing is still chilly with a touch of lingering cold, yet Zhang Enliang, a deputy to the National People's Congress and mayor of Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province, feels a warm breeze on his face: spring has come, and I am very pleased to report to farmer friends across the country through Farmers' Daily that Heihe, situated in a high-latitude cold region, has also welcomed the spring of modern agriculture
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How to establish a long-term mechanism for the management of rural "three assets"
At present, rural reform and development has entered a new historical period. Deyang City, Sichuan Province, as one of the birthplaces of rural reform in China, what pioneering explorations and practices does it have? "Guided by the effective, full and efficient utilization of rural factors, and taking increasing farmers' income as the starting point
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