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Capital goes to the countryside: strong enough to grab land, but not capable of farming it
Land lessees unilaterally break contracts or even abscond, land rent is hard to collect, and returned land either has lost its boundaries or has seriously damaged motor-pumps and pipes, or even misses the farming season and is left abandoned. In early April, a China Youth Daily reporter in Baixiang and Wei County of Xingtai City, Hebei Province
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On April 21, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on April 21 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 204.86, down 0.51 points from yesterday; among this, the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 206.53, down 0.55 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, at the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, the average price of pork
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Is the decline of rural areas really unavoidable?
Since industrialization, it has been a very common phenomenon for various resources to flow from rural areas to industry and cities. As long as industrialization is implemented, rural change is unavoidable. And to achieve a balanced state between rural and urban areas, the most fundamental thing is to narrow the cultural
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Han Changfu: Deepen the Special Cleanup and Rectification Campaign and Advance Marine Fisheries Development
Han Changfu stressed at the on-site meeting on cleaning up and rectifying "mothball nets" and "three-no" fishing vessels: Deepen the special cleanup and rectification campaign, promote the sustained and healthy development of marine fisheries. On April 20, the Ministry of Agriculture held in Xiangshan County, Zhejiang Province a meeting on cleaning up and rectifying "moth
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Information-Guided Agricultural Development Enters a New Stage
At the 2015 China Agricultural Outlook Conference, the Market Early Warning Expert Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture officially released the "China Agricultural Outlook Report (2015-2024)," which became a milestone in China's agricultural informatization construction, marking that relying on information to guide agricultural development has entered a new stage.
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Winter Wheat Welcomes Spring Rain, Bumper Harvests Anticipated in Many Areas
Recently, many areas in northern China have received widespread spring rain, and the domestic winter wheat crop is growing remarkably well. The rainfall has largely alleviated the adverse effects of earlier drought weather on winter wheat growth, and market observers expect China to usher in another bumper wheat year. Since April, most parts of the country
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Corn prices in southern sales areas are generally stable, and this is how the industry sees it
Corn prices in southern sales areas are generally stable. Currently, the enthusiasm for temporary state reserve corn purchases has declined, grain prices in production areas lack support, and prices have weakened slightly. Holders of grain in sales areas have become more calm in their mindset, purchasing imported sorghum and corn from North China and the Northwest to maintain production, and for the time being are not stockpiling in large quantities, waiting to observe the starting auction prices for Northeast corn. In the future, several main factors affecting the sales area market are the recovery of the livestock industry, the amount of imported corn, and when relocating corn will broadly begin auctions. It is precisely because these factors are not yet clear that feed mills remain observant and purchasing demand is not strong.
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Spring plowing agricultural machinery market is booming, heavy-duty and new-type farm machinery are popular
In the spring plowing season, walking into the large agricultural machinery market in Zhongxiang City, Hubei, rows of shiny farm machines of all kinds catch the eye. In the agricultural machinery sales supermarket, farmer friends who have come from various townships to buy farm machinery look at the machines and ask about prices. Is there also a subsidy for buying a paddy field wheel rotary tiller? At Aoxiang Agricultural Machinery
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Afraid of buying fake seeds, farmers try multiple varieties like running experiments
Li Zhongming, a farmer from Qing'an County in Suihua City, went around more than 10 dealerships in the Heilongjiang Provincial Seed Market but still could not find suitable seeds. Li Zhongming told the Economic Information Daily reporter that his family has more than 4 shang (one shang equals 15 mu) of land, and in recent years he would choose
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The number of major crop varieties subject to approval was reduced from 28 to 5
On April 20, the much-anticipated draft amendment to the Seed Law was first submitted to the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress for deliberation. The draft comprehensively regulates aspects such as strengthening the protection of germplasm resources, improving the institutional mechanisms for breeding innovation, and strengthening oversight and management of the seed industry. Germplasm resources are the material foundation of modern
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