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The occupational diseases of farmers must not be ignored
The problem of occupational diseases among farmers must not be ignored. For example, farmers who grow fruits and vegetables come into frequent contact with pesticides, which can trigger blood diseases and skin diseases; farmers who grow rice, working bare-legged and bare-footed soaking in cold water for long periods, can develop arteriosclerosis; farmers who operate greenhouses can develop plastic greenhouse syndrome from working in hot, humid greenhouses; farm machinery operators, because they rush to save time during the summer harvest and spring sowing and sit for long periods on combine harvesters or tractors, can develop tinnitus, lumbar muscle strain and other conditions; even farmers who grow mushrooms, working in dark, damp environments, can develop occupational diseases such as mushroom lung.
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Revitalizing Rural Homestead Assets: China Explores a New Path
With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization, the problem of some rural homesteads and farmhouses in China being used extensively, difficult to exit, and gradually becoming dormant assets has become increasingly prominent. Starting this year, China launched pilot programs in 33 county-level administrative regions to explore a mechanism for voluntary and compensated exit and transfer of homesteads within a limited scope, so as to revitalize these idle assets.
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Go all out to tackle the tough battle and ensure that a bumper harvest in sight becomes a bumper harvest in hand
On the occasion of the large-scale mechanized production for the "three summer" period about to begin, on May 13, the Ministry of Agriculture held the 2015 national video conference on cross-regional wheat combine harvesting for the "three summer" period, to study and analyze the situation of cross-regional wheat combine harvesting and deploy the mechanization work for the "three summer" period. Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin at the
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Why Are Corn Prices Weak? Ample Supply in Sales Areas, Social Inventories Still Being Released
I. Spot Market Northeast Production Areas: Outbound shipments from production areas temporarily stable; spring planting underway in Heilongjiang Currently, traders in Northeast production areas are still releasing inventory, and outbound prices remain stable compared with last week. At present, grain sources in the hands of farmers in Liaoning and Inner Mongolia are basically sold out, while some villages in Jilin and Heilongjiang still have corn for sale, but farmers' asking prices are relatively high, traders' current purchasing willingness is not strong, and buying and selling are sluggish. Regarding spring planting, all Northeast regions except Heilongjiang have completed spring planting, and seedling emergence in Jilin and Inner Mongolia is good. Rainfall this week effectively alleviated the earlier drought in Liaoning. In eastern and northern Heilongjiang, planting was delayed due to low temperatures earlier, and spring planting work is still underway.
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National South Asian Subtropical Crop Work Conference Held in Haikou
On May 8, the Land Reclamation Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Office for the Development of South Asian Subtropical Crops of the Ministry of Agriculture held the National South Asian Subtropical Crop Work Conference in Haikou. The conference summarized and exchanged recent work, and studied and deployed further efforts to advance the transformation of development models and structural adjustment, accelerate the building of a high-end tropical crop industry, and advance the modernization of the tropical crop industry.
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Treating "chemical fertilizer dependency" cannot rely on farmers alone
Agricultural experts repeatedly say that excessive application of chemical fertilizers creates a vicious cycle of "the more fertilizer applied, the thinner the soil becomes," leading to soil degradation, reduced grain yields, and non-point source pollution, seriously endangering our country's food security and affecting the sustainable development of our country's agriculture.
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Beware of Land Brokers Misleading Farmland Transfers
Land brokers do not profit by providing land transfer information; instead, they exploit their financial advantage and information asymmetry to rent and enclose land ahead of others, then sublet it to other organizations or individuals who genuinely need to farm. This behavior disrupts the order of the rural land transfer market and drives up
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Agricultural product e-commerce: why can't city people beat farmers at their own game?
E-commerce, in people's impression, is a high-end and prestigious thing, generally only urban veteran internet professionals and big capital can make it work. But when it comes to agricultural product e-commerce, the grafting of agriculture and e-commerce, although city people talk about it endlessly, with all
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How can the research approach to new urbanization be broadened?
Identical paths, similar functions, a thousand cities with "one face," and a "one-size-fits-all" approach to management - these are persistent problems in China's urbanization process. In research on new urbanization, phenomena such as superficiality, lack of novelty, aimlessness, and vague generalities have also appeared. Such resear
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What can an academic conference bring to the fields?
The 2015 Sixth National New Fertilizer Academic Symposium was recently held in Jinan, Shandong. What practical problems can an academic conference on new fertilizers actually solve for fertilizer reduction and agricultural production? After listening to the conference for a day and a half, the reporter discerned the efforts of the participating experts - adjusting
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