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Explaining the New-Type Professional Farmer: How to Build a Socialized Agricultural Service System
As agriculture has developed to this day, the meaning of "farmer" has changed greatly, and the shift from an inherited status to a brand-new profession is an unstoppable historical trend. In 2012, "new-type professional farmer" was written into the No. 1 Central Document for the first time, and in the same year the Ministry of Agriculture launched a
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Reexamining the Development Status of Smallholder Agriculture in China
One Bottom, Two Fists On May 11, 1964, while listening to a report from the Planning Commission Leading Group on the Third Five-Year Plan, Mao Zedong put forward the formulation of the national economy having two fists and one bottom. Basic industry is one fist, national defense industry is one fist, and agriculture is the bottom.
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The seed industry market is expected to bottom out and rebound in the third quarter
Editor's note: In recent years, some seed inventories have been severe, with corn and rice seed supply exceeding demand, the number of seed companies and seed production areas shrinking, and production capacity declining. According to general patterns, after two or three years of wandering in the trough, the seed market will enter an upward cycle. Last year, the seed production, supply and demand analysis meeting of the National Agricultural Technology Center also predicted that the seed supply and demand relationship would improve this year. Some analysts in the agricultural materials industry, based on the bottoming-out situation of the industry's economic operation and various favorable conditions, predict that the seed industry will bottom out and rebound in the third quarter, but some people in seed companies believe that the risks in the seed industry market have not yet been fully released, and the destocking and capacity reduction of the two hybrid crops have not yet been completed. Which view is more well-founded? Where does the seed market's wind vane point? Readers are invited to pay attention and think.
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Grain in Ear arrives and farm work is busy, a time for rushed harvesting and planting in the fields
On June 6, farmers in Zhongfeng Town, Zhuxi County, Hubei Province, pick jiaogulan (Gynostemma pentaphyllum) at a base. Photo by Xinhua (Yan Yizhong). That day marks Grain in Ear, one of the 24 solar terms, and farmers everywhere are seizing the farming season for field management and harvesting mature crops, with busy scenes across the fields. June
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The grain bank model is good, but promoting and applying it is not easy
Grain in Ear is busy, with three or two rounds of work. It is again the wheat harvest season, threshing grain and collecting grain have once more become important matters for farmer friends. How to store the grain once it is brought home is even the most important matter among important matters. Because some farmers store it poorly, some of the grain they have obtained becomes moldy, and some sprouts, causing no small loss.
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June 8, 2015 "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on June 8 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 201.76, up 1.48 points from last Friday, among which the "Vegetable Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 202.80, up 1.53 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, at wholesale markets for agricultural products nationwide
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How far away is the era of futures-based agriculture? Cotton farmers no longer have to gamble on the market
1. With seed cotton "futures", cotton farmers no longer have to gamble on the market. In the eyes of the villagers of Dongjiawan Village, Dong Yuanfa is a real veteran cotton grower. Dongjiawan Village is located in Qixingtai Town, Zhijiang City, Hubei Province, and is a major local cotton-producing area. Dong Yuanfa, now 56 years old, started growing cotton at 18
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Agricultural departments actively carry out flood control and disaster relief work to ensure a safe flood season
Report from our website: Since May, heavy rainfall has occurred frequently in southern China. Cumulative precipitation in southern Hunan, eastern Jiangxi, northeastern Guangxi, most of Guangdong and western Fujian reached 400-700 mm, 50 percent to 4 times more than the same period in normal years. Parts of 12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in southern China
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On June 5, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on June 5 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 200.28, up 0.37 points from yesterday, of which the "vegetable basket" product wholesale price index was 201.27, up 0.63 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, in the national agricultural products wholesale market, pork
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Winter wheat harvest begins across a large area of the Huang-Huai-Hai region
In the photo, farmers in Yingshang County are seizing favorable weather to rush in the wheat harvest. Photo by Wang Pengfei. In June, across the Jianghuai land, wheat waves roll and a scene of abundant harvest fills the fields. The reporter came to Fuyang City, Anhui Province, long known as the "tens-of-billions Jianghuai granary," where favorable weather is being seized to rush in the summer grain harvest.
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