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Premium wheat shows clear price advantage, sowing area increases
Winter wheat sowing in main producing areas basically finished. Recently, reporters conducted a survey of winter wheat sowing in Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other provinces. As of now, winter wheat planting in the main producing areas is nearing completion, with Henan and other provinces having finished sowing. From the already sown
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Excessive Grain Imports Threaten National Food Security
The Central Economic Work Conference previously proposed a national food security strategy under the new circumstances of "taking self-reliance as the mainstay, basing ourselves on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, importing appropriately, and relying on technological support," requiring that the rice bowls of the Chinese people must always be firmly held in our own hands and that our rice bowls should
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A Record of the Reform, Innovation and Development of Our Nation's Seed Industry
Editor's Note: Grain is the foundation of the state, and the seed industry is the foundation of grain. China's seed industry started from nothing at the beginning of the founding of New China, and through decades of unremitting efforts, it has continued to develop and grow through shared endeavor. Especially since entering the new century, China's seed industry, under external pressure from international competition and internal challenges of transforming the growth model and adjusting the structure, has continuously reformed and innovated, pressing forward into deep-water areas, gradually breaking through the shackles of systems and mechanisms, and radiating new vitality and brilliance. An in-depth analysis of the course of seed industry reform and development not only profoundly reflects the great process of China's agricultural modernization, but also vividly embodies the hardships and efforts of China's comprehensive deepening of reform, possessing unique typical significance and distinct contemporary value.
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How to achieve agricultural modernization while protecting farmers
These past two days everyone has been hotly discussing agricultural modernization. Not long ago, the author went to Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province, to do field research and found that the "joint ploughing and joint sowing" they have promoted in recent years has fairly well solved the problem of agricultural modernization under smallholder conditions, and truly balanced the solution of both the agricultural problem and the farmer problem
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Building and Developing Ecological Agriculture Should Be Elevated to a National Strategy
Agriculture and rural issues remain an important part of the 13th Five-Year Plan. Among them, strengthening the capacity for food security is something the state has consistently emphasized. Over the past 11 years, China's grain production has achieved 11 consecutive years of growth, and agricultural development has made tremendous achievements. However, grain output
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No time to waste on grain farmers' worries; relief and support must come promptly
Since the start of this year, prices of China's major grain crops have declined. The corn purchase price has fallen 21% compared with last year; after wheat prices went through a plunge in September, the decline has now narrowed somewhat; news from the Northeast reclamation area shows that the rice purchase price is level with last year's, and returns are relatively optimistic.
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Banning straw burning cannot succeed without supporting policies
Editor's note: Every harvest season, air pollution caused by burning straw always becomes a focus of attention. How can we comprehensively utilize this valuable biomass resource and avoid simply burning it all and creating a source of smog? Reporters from Economic Daily visited experts and scholars and went
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How can the industrialization of comprehensive straw utilization be advanced?
Crop straw is a valuable renewable resource. At present, China produces more than 900 million tons of straw each year. If used rationally, it will help improve soil organic matter content, reduce agricultural non-point source pollution, promote increased grain output and income, and safeguard China's food security.
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Agricultural Reform on the Eve of the 13th Five-Year Plan: Food Production Puts "Stability" First
Recently, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee was held in Beijing. For nearly 20 years, the fifth plenary session of each Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has focused on the next five-year plan, and this year's 13th Five-Year Plan has attracted much attention because of its special historical background. This is the first five-year plan since China's economic development entered the "new normal," and its final year is precisely the year China completes the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
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Modernizing agriculture while protecting farmers
[The direction of China's agricultural modernization should be one that provides services to the tens of millions of ordinary farming households; the "three rural" policy should take into account both agricultural and farmer issues] These past two days everyone has been discussing agricultural modernization. Not long ago, the author went to Sheyang County, Jiangsu Province to conduct field research, and found that in recent years
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