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Straw Burning Becomes a Tough Problem for Air Pollution Prevention and Control
After the National Day holiday, many places in northern China were once again hit by smog. This round of smog made agricultural straw burning the target of public criticism and once again focused public attention on this difficult problem for government management. Every autumn, as the grain harvest draws to a close, rural areas in various places enter the peak period of straw burning.
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Autumn Grain Bumper Harvest Leaves Farmers Worried, Urging All Sectors of Society to Lend a Hand
According to a survey, the per-unit yield increase of autumn grain in Anqing City, Anhui Province this year is around 3.5%, with total output expected to reach 2.04 million tons, an increase of 130,000 tons over last year. However, the bumper harvest has brought farmers not joy but worry. Although the grain increase reached around 3.5%, judging from the current situation, the autumn grain
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Where exactly is the way forward for spring-sown rapeseed?
As of mid-October, the harvest of China's spring-sown rapeseed is nearing its end, with the harvest in the Inner Mongolia region basically complete, and the harvest progress in the northwestern production areas also approaching about 80%. However, constrained by the end of the national temporary storage price-support system, rapeseed from the above production areas has not only seen prices plummet,
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Why is the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China less than 50%?
Vice Minister of Agriculture Zhang Taolin said on the 23rd that due to the massive use of chemical fertilizers, insufficient rural environmental protection investment and other factors, composting is becoming increasingly rare in rural areas, and the nutrient return rate of livestock and poultry manure to fields in China is now below 50%. Zhang Taolin made the remarks at the 2015 International Composting Conference
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Prices of the three major staple grains fall together, agricultural product price reform may accelerate
A bumper harvest without a bumper income: this autumn, farmers may not have much to celebrate. Since the third quarter, prices of the three major domestic staple grains have fallen steadily. According to statistics, corn saw the largest drop, with the purchase price falling from the year's high of 2279 yuan/ton to 1980 yuan/ton, a decline of 13.1%; the wheat purchase price fell from the year's high of
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How long until vegetables go direct from field to table?
In recent years, farmers' cooperatives in some cities have opened direct-sales stores in communities to sell vegetables, so that the vegetables grown by farmers go straight from the fields to the dining tables of city residents. This should be a good thing that benefits both residents and farmers, but many vegetable direct-sales stores are losing money. Why
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Autumn vegetable planting area slightly increased in September, with the peak harvest season arriving in October
According to monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture's vegetable production information network, vegetable supply in September was basically flat year-on-year and increased month-on-month, while farm-gate wholesale prices rose both year-on-year and month-on-month. In October, autumn vegetables will begin to hit the market in large volumes, and farm-gate wholesale prices for vegetables will edge down slightly, though the price level will remain higher than the previous year.
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Future food may come from high-tech agriculture
To feed the 7 billion people on Earth, we have already cultivated 40% of the planet's land, and by 2050 the world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion. Data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization shows that to avoid widespread malnutrition, food production needs to increase by 70%. But there is now little
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Develop One Village One Product to help farmers get rich and increase income
In recent years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly pointed out: we should develop modern breeding, forestry and fruit farming, and horticulture according to local conditions, and develop advantageous leading industries such as one village one product, multiple villages one product, one township one industry, and one county one industry. Several No. 1 Central Documents have also repeatedly stressed: support the development
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The temporary corn storage policy in Northeast China must be implemented well, and enterprises should be encouraged to actively enter the market to purchase.
Since the beginning of this year, against the backdrop of ample domestic corn supply, weak industrial demand, and increased imports of substitutes, the domestic corn market has generally operated weakly, and in the second half of the year corn market prices have shown a continuous downward trend. On September 17, the state announced this year's corn
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