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Date:2014/02/20
BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government announced on Wednesday a pork purchase plan to stabilize depressed prices, as production of live pigs remain high.
The move will prevent excessive decline in prices of live hogs, stabilize h...
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Date:2014/02/20
BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- China should focus on agricultural cooperatives to ensure better food safety and quality, industry experts said at a meeting on Wednesday.
Partnerships between farmers and firms can ensure product safety and qualit...
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Date:2014/02/19
The Xinjiang Rural Work Conference took place in the city of Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Feb 12. The conference decided on an economic and social development plan in the rural area. Urumqi Party Committee Secretary Zhu Hailun called ...
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Date:2014/02/19
More than 167 square kilometers of rice and wheat fields in Zhangjiagang of Jiangsu province have been approved as national green food raw material standardization production bases, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and the Green Food Developm...
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Date:2014/02/18
Provincial government team to study pollution from heavy metal industry
Hunan province, a major industrial hub, aims to rehabilitate polluted land in a green project drive to combat the effects of heavy metal contamination.
While much h...
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Date:2014/02/18
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Malaysia will hold discussion with China on exporting its fruits, especially durian, to China, Malaysian Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said on Saturday.
Sabri said there will...
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Date:2014/02/17
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping has called for village officials who graduated from college to improve themselves and contribute more to underdeveloped rural areas.
Xi made the comments in a letter to Zhang Guangxiu, 28, who ...
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Date:2014/02/14
Farmers’ income achieved 10 consecutive years of fast growth since China’s reform and opening up, according to National Bureau of Statistics.
The per-capita net income of rural residents reached 8,896 yuan in 2013, up by 9.3% in real terms ove...
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Date:2014/02/14
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- China's Vice Minister of Science and Technology Zhang Laiwu on Thursday stressed the need to reshape the country's seed industry through commercial and innovative elements.
China's seed industry is still wea...
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Date:2014/02/14
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The State Council, China's cabinet, has announced the integration of rural and urban pensions as part of efforts to unify the varied pension systems across the country.
The audacious reform step, taken on the first...
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Date:2014/02/14
BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese central government has invested 61.8 billion yuan (10.1 bln U.S. dollars) improving schoolhouses and educational facilities in rural areas over the past four years.
Since 2010, 39.9 billion yuan from th...
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Date:2014/02/13
For Wen Xiaoyan, shipping live fish to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region not only confirms the product quality but could lead to further business opportunities.
Wen is the director of Santai Eco Fishery Ltd, based in Dongguan, Guang...
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Date:2014/02/13
The Ministry of Agriculture has made public seven cases of destroying grassland resources, as part of an intensified effort to fight illegal activities in the sector.
More than 18,700 illegal activities related to grassland resources were filed and i...
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Date:2014/02/13
A farmer harvests potted celeries in Jimo City, east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 12, 2014. Potted vegetables planted by local farmers became a "hot seller" with the sales volume of over 100,000 pots since Spring Festival. (Xinhua/Liang Xiaopeng) ...
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Date:2014/02/12
The China Food and Nutrition Development Outline 2014-2020 was released by the State Council, or China’s Cabinet on Feb. 10th, 2014, focusing on effective supply of food and improvement of dietary pattern and nutrition.
Being the 3rd of its ki...
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Date:2014/02/12
MOA issued China Wheat Quality Report 2013 on Feb. 10, 2014.
The Report provided comprehensive data on China’s wheat quality and traits, based on a nationwide survey conducted by Department of Crop Production of MOA last year.
Over 80...
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Date:2014/02/12
MOA convened the national video-conference on on-farm management & crop farming preparation for spring 2014 on Feb. 8. The conference analyzed current situation of grain production, and outlined working priorities of spring crop farming this year...
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Date:2014/02/12
HAIKOU, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- Officials in south China's island province of Hainan on Tuesday blamed red tide, a toxic algal bloom, for the recent mass deaths of fish and shrimp in sea areas west of the land mass.
According to a statement from t...
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Date:2014/02/12
BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- China's top economic planner said Tuesday it would raise the minimum state purchasing prices for rice in major farming areas by up to 3.3 percent this year.
The state purchasing prices for early and mid-and-late in...
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Date:2014/02/11
China had allocated some 39.9 billion yuan ($6.6 billion) from the central government budget to improve school facilities in poor rural areas by the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Education on Monday.
The program, which was joi...