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Potato as a staple food: industrialization draws ever nearer, but how far is it from the ordinary dinner table?
Nowadays, various agricultural resource factors are stretched tight, and residents' demands for improving the nutritional structure of staple foods are growing higher and higher. China's push to develop the potato industry comes at just the right time. The potato is a major food that is rich in nutrients and convenient to eat, and has become the world's fourth-largest food crop after rice, wheat and
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Domestic japonica rice prices are expected to remain high
Currently, domestic rice processing enterprises basically purchase rice from grain depots and trading markets, and mainly policy-oriented rice. Since policy-oriented rice must follow the principle of price-matching sales, the transaction floor price is relatively stable. Meanwhile, the domestic rice market is in the off-season for market consumption, and many processing enterprises reduce rice market supply by suspending production for maintenance, in order to support rice prices in remaining relatively stable. Overall, in the short term there will be few changes in the domestic supply and demand environment, and japonica rice prices will remain stable.
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Why Are Domestic Grain Prices Higher Than Foreign Prices? An Analysis of Four Major Reasons
In response to the situation of persistently high grain price gaps between domestic and international markets, there are two views: one is to stop producing it ourselves and just import, and the other is to drive all farmers off the land and pursue large-scale agriculture. However, Chen Xiwen believes that agricultural policy is not merely an industrial policy, but a social policy that concerns the survival
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On August 4, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with yesterday
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 4 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 210.00, up 0.88 points from yesterday, among which the "Market Basket" Products Wholesale Price Index was 212.37, up 1.05 points from yesterday. As of 14:00 today, the average price of pork in national agricultural products wholesale markets
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Going forward, the wheat market mechanism will play a further role
New wheat market performs steadily In mid-to-late July, when reporters visited grain enterprises in major wheat-producing areas such as Jiangsu, Henan, Hebei and Shandong, they found that the phenomenon commonly seen in previous years of market players driving up prices to scramble for grain sources was gone. At many sites for purchasing wheat for the temporary state reserve, grain brokers and traders coming to sell grain lined up in an orderly way to be weighed, put into storage and settled. At the grain collection points set up by small vendors and grain brokers, reporters saw a steady stream of small horse-drawn carts bringing farmers to sell grain.
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How to Transform Agriculture's Development Model? A Full Analysis of Direction and Path
Behind the achievement of twelve consecutive increases in summer grain production lies the main thread of China's agriculture closely focusing on stabilizing grain production, increasing incomes, adjusting structure, improving quality, raising efficiency and transforming the development model. Today, grain production no longer focuses only on annual output, but pays more attention to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology; resource utilization
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What should be done about farmers' affairs? Let farmers discuss and decide for themselves
According to reports, relevant departments in Mengcun County, Hebei, found that during the turnover of some village "two committees" in the county, some cadres who were usually willing to work failed to be reelected. An important reason was that these cadres liked to make decisions on their own when handling matters, so much so that some farmers said: I want cucumbers but you insist on giving me watermelons, why should I support you?
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The rise of internet-based agricultural supplies: why are brick-and-mortar dealers worried?
As new forms of agribusiness such as agricultural-supply e-commerce and mobile technical service platforms keep emerging, the traditional seed sales industry is undergoing change. For the intermediate links of dealers and retailers, will they seize opportunities amid the change, or adjust their course amid the change?
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Widespread Welcome Rain Across China's Drought Areas Eases Drought Conditions
The reporter learned on the 4th from the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters that since late July, drought-affected areas in Northeast China, the Huang-Huai-Hai region, Yunnan and other places have received precipitation multiple times, and drought conditions nationwide have been significantly eased. It is understood that since late July, the western and southern parts of Northeast China and the Huang-Huai-Hai region
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In some areas, selling grain is difficult; multiple measures have been taken to ease the pressure of selling grain
Because of successive rainstorms during this year's wheat harvest, imperfect grains of wheat in parts of Anhui and other places exceeded the standard, making it difficult for the quality to meet the national purchase and storage standard. To ease the problem of farmers having difficulty selling grain, various localities and departments have successively introduced multiple measures to effectively safeguard the interests of grain-growing farmers.
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