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Food security requires both self-reliance and openness
China is a country with a large population, and food security cannot rely entirely on the international market. For China's food security, first, there must be bottom-line thinking, and second, there must be market thinking. The latter refers not only to using the international market and importing grain from abroad, but also includes: further reform
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How Can the Corn Structure Be Optimized? Yu Xinrong: Pragmatically Advance the Transformation of Agricultural Development Mode
Vice Minister Yu Xinrong emphasized at the meeting on corn structure adjustment and the promotion and implementation of "grain-to-feed" in selected provinces: Pragmatically advance the transformation of agricultural development mode, focus on optimizing the corn structure to achieve agricultural quality improvement and efficiency enhancement. According to this website, on August 28, the Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting in Inner Mongolia on corn structure adjustment and
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How Agricultural Investment Can Explore Public-Private Partnership Models
The nation takes agriculture as its foundation. Agriculture is tied to our country's national economy and people's livelihood, food security, farmers' income growth and many other aspects, and our country has always placed agriculture first in the development of the national economy. At present, our country's agricultural industry is in the stage of transformation and upgrading from traditional agriculture to modern agriculture.
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Never relax in autumn grain production, go all out to achieve the goal of stable grain output and increased income
This website news: As the farming proverb says, the 15th day of the seventh lunar month determines drought or flood, and the 15th day of the eighth lunar month determines the harvest. At present, we are in the critical period for autumn grain yield formation and the tough stage of field management. The Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting to make special arrangements for late-stage management of autumn grain. Vice Minister Yu Xinrong stressed,
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On August 31, 2015, the "National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index" compared with last week
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture, on August 31 the National Agricultural Products Wholesale Price Index was 214.11, down 1.51 points from last Friday, among which the "Shopping Basket" Product Wholesale Price Index was 217.38, down 1.82 points from last Friday. As of 14:00 today, the national agricultural products wholesale market
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What are the standards for ecological agriculture? Jiang Gaoming explains it this way
Due to work reasons, the author is often asked what kind of agriculture can be called ecological agriculture? What is the difference between ecological agriculture, traditional agriculture, and organic agriculture? Is ecological agriculture a return to primitive agriculture? Because of a lack of understanding of the connotation of ecological agriculture, plus some people deliberately
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No Let-Up in Efforts to Secure Autumn Grain Production: Ministry of Agriculture Goes All Out to Ensure Stable Grain Output and Increased Yields
As the saying goes, the 15th day of the seventh month determines drought or flood, and the 15th day of the eighth month determines the harvest. At present, we are in the critical period for autumn grain yield formation and the decisive stage of field management. The Ministry of Agriculture convened a meeting to make special arrangements for late-stage autumn grain management. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong emphasized that all localities
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Why is low-cost urbanisation unsustainable?
In 2013 China's urbanisation rate reached 53.7%, with 730 million people included in the urbanisation process; since the start of the new century, an average of more than 20 million people have entered cities each year. This should be the largest-scale and fastest population urbanisation process within a single country in the world. Looking domestically, the urbanisation rate of the eastern region has already reached 62%, the central region 48%, and the western region 44.5%, leaving an 18-percentage-point gap between the western and eastern regions.
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National Agricultural Product Market System Plan Released, About 100 Backbone Markets to Be Built
Yesterday, the website of the Ministry of Commerce published an article stating that the Ministry of Commerce and 10 other departments recently jointly issued the "National Agricultural Product Market System Development Plan", proposing that a agricultural product market system with Chinese characteristics will be initially established by 2020. The plan is based on China's various regions' economic and social conditions, transportation locations,
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Elderly Agriculture: The Semi-Farming Model of Left-Behind Elderly in Rural Areas
Convenient mechanical tillage and farmland management are the intrinsic needs of elderly agriculture. At present, the vast majority of rural areas across the country have already formed a household livelihood model of "semi-work and semi-farming based on intergenerational division of labor." This household livelihood model is called the labor force reproduction model or family reproduction
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