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Corn prices have already entered a long, drawn-out bear market, and the downward trend is unlikely to reverse in the short term
Since June, domestic corn futures prices have shown an accelerating downward momentum, and the monthly chart of the corn main 1601 contract even posted 6 consecutive declines, showing that corn prices already have bear market characteristics. Under the heavy pressures of adjustment to the stockpiling policy, massive inventory buildup, the new-season corn coming to market, and sluggish demand,
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Improving Farmers' Quality and Building a New Force of Farmers with All Efforts
Transforming the agricultural development model makes talent the key, as this is the endogenous driving force and fundamental guarantee for the transformation. To upgrade traditional agriculture and modernize agriculture, it is necessary to increase investment in human capital and substantially improve farmers' comprehensive abilities in production, operation and management. This is a matter of paramount importance.
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Agricultural business giants focus on Internet+ agriculture development
From September 19 to 20, the "2015 International Agricultural Business Brand Development Forum" will be held in Beijing, focusing on "building an agricultural-business integration platform and catching the fast train of enterprise integration." Officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, renowned Chinese and foreign economists, and officials from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will also attend.
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Why Rose Prices Swing Wildly: Growers Give Up Harvesting in Despair
"Someone got so furious that they drove an excavator into the rose field." Li Zhenhai, a villager from Xiaodoushan Village, Bajie Street, Anning City, Yunnan Province, told astonished reporters. During the recent edible rose harvest season, flower growers had a bumper crop but no bumper income. Prices fell from more than 30 yuan per kilogram
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New gene discovered that boosts super rice yields
The super rice germplasm innovation team of the China National Rice Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions, successfully isolated and cloned from the Zhejiang local large-grain variety "Baodali" a gene that can significantly increase super rice yields
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Exploring China's Food Security Issue and Its Solutions
China's housing area is less than half that of the United States and 2/3 that of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany; when per capita housing area reaches 35 sq m, it equals that of the United Kingdom and France. The green coverage rate is not high because there are many high-rise and super-high-rise buildings; China's per capita residential land area of 5 sq m ranks at the bottom worldwide, less than the land area for cattle and horse pens - truly worse off than cattle and horses, living in overcrowded houses without natural wind or natural light, and the sports areas in residential compounds cannot accommodate 1% of the residents for outdoor fitness and exercise. According to estimates by relevant experts, without exercise, or with 3 hours of exercise a day or running 5 km, one would need to eat 30% less grain.
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25% of grain and oil is contaminated by fungal toxins, and mold prevention and control cannot be ignored
Everyone knows that moldy food cannot be eaten. Moldy peanuts, moldy corn, moldy rice - once accidentally eaten, the effects range from vomiting in mild cases to death in severe cases. This is because these moldy foods contain a hidden killer of food safety - fungal toxins. From
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Grain basket oversight extended to the fields
This year, the Xinkaihu Branch of Beidahuang Co., Ltd. in the Heilongjiang Reclamation Area has closely focused on the "grain basket" of urban and rural residents and food safety, actively innovated working methods, improved the agricultural product quality oversight system, and extended agricultural product testing and oversight to the fields, achieving zero blind spots and laying a solid foundation for ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products.
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How are agricultural product origin standards strictly controlled?
Since the beginning of this year, Yiyuan County in Shandong Province has taken safeguarding the quality and safety of crop agricultural products as its bottom line, closely focusing on agricultural transformation and upgrading and sustained increases in farmers' incomes, and has persisted in grasping with one hand the effective supply of major agricultural products while with the other hand grasping quality and safety supervision, vigorously promoting large-scale,
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High-standard farmland construction receives 23.5 billion yuan in central government financial support
On September 7, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Finance that in 2015 the central government had allocated 23.565 billion yuan in comprehensive agricultural development funds for high-standard farmland projects, which are expected to build 27.7745 million mu of high-standard farmland, with an average increase in grain production capacity of more than 100 kg per mu. National Agricultural Comprehensive Development Office
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