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  • UN food agency calls for data revolution to implement 2030 Agenda

    Date:2016/10/31

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jose Graziano da Silva, on Wednesday called for a data revolution to implement the 2030 Agenda, stressing that the data requirements for the Sustainable Deve...

  • 400,000 migrant workers flock to Xinjiang to harvest cotton

    Date:2016/10/28

    Every year during the 80 days between mid-September and the start of November, about 400,000 migrant workers leave their hometowns in the rural areas of the provinces of Henan, Sichuan, Gansu and Heilong for the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous...

  • Tibet covered by 88.2 mln hectares of grassland

    Date:2016/10/28

    LHASA, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- A census of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region shows that 88.2 million hectares of the area is grassland, but over 26 percent of it suffers from degradation. The grassland in the region can produce 77.9 million tonne...

  • Chile seals deal to export nectarines to China

    Date:2016/10/28

    SANTIAGO, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Chilean Agriculture Minister Carlos Furche announced on Tuesday that his country has signed a deal with China to export nectarines to the Asian country. "It is very good news for our nectarine producers," declared Furche...

  • China Int'l Agricultural Machinery Exhibition held in Wuhan

    Date:2016/10/28

    Visitors view a tractor during the 2016 China International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, Oct. 26, 2016. About 1,900 companies took part in the exhibition held at Wuhan International Convention...

  • MOA Senior Advisor Song Jianchao visits Italy

    Date:2016/10/27

    Mr. Song Jianchao, MOA Senior Advisor (Vice-minister level) and head of the Discipline Inspection Group of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection at MOA, led a delegation to visit Italy during Oct. 19-23, 2016. The Chinese delegation vi...

  • Aust'n dairy giant to air-freight fresh milk to China in bold export venture

    Date:2016/10/27

    MELBOURNE, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- One of Australia's largest and oldest dairy companies has announced it will export fresh milk directly to China every week beginning in 2017. Tasmania's Van Diemen's Land (VDL) Farms, which is owned by China's Moon Lake...

  • Ambassadors expect more China, Latin America cooperation

    Date:2016/10/27

    CHENGDU, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Ambassadors to China of four Latin American countries have expressed hope for more cooperation with western China at an ongoing conference. At the Pacific Alliance's investment forum held in Chengdu, capital of southwest ...

  • Ugandan farmers shift to Chinese hybrid rice to boost income

    Date:2016/10/27

    A Chinese cereals expert explains to farmers in the eastern Ugandan district of Budaka how to grow Chinese hybrid rice, Oct. 25, 2016. Chinese experts under an agreement between China, Uganda and UN's Food and Agriculture Organization are training fa...

  • Harvest season for paddy comes in South China's county

    Date:2016/10/27

    Farms are seen from above at Shanglong village of Baishan Township in Mashan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Oct. 26, 2016. Harvest season for the paddy has come in Mashan County in Autumn. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)Farms are seen from ...

  • China's agricultural fair draws record number of foreign traders

    Date:2016/10/27

    BEIJING, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- A record number of foreign traders will participate in the 14th China Agricultural Trade Fair (CATF) to be held in November in southwest Yunnan province, organizers said on Tuesday. Exhibition area for overseas attendees ...

  • 3rd Open Science Meeting of Global Land Project held in Beijing

    Date:2016/10/26

    The 3rd Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Project (GLP 3rd OSM 2016) opened in Beijing on Oct. 24, 2016. Highlighting the theme of "Land system science: understanding facts and seeking solutions", the GLP 3rd OSM 2016 brought together more than...

  • Building roads becomes priority in poverty alleviation efforts in South China

    Date:2016/10/26

    Villagers build a road on the mountain at Nongxiong Village of Dahua Yao Autonomous County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 15, 2016. Building roads has become a priority in poverty alleviation efforts in the mountainous county. ...

  • Harvest of reform to modernize agriculture

    Date:2016/10/26

    Updated: 2016-10-25 07:43 By Wang Yiqing Departments and ministries under the State Council, China's cabinet, have responded to a series of public concerns in the past week on agricultural modernization, civil service examinations, gas storage facili...

  • Rural tourism leads fight against poverty in Gansu

    Date:2016/10/26

    Updated: 2016-10-25 By Ge Jieru Gansu province has made huge inroads into defeating poverty since the national government declared it would eradicate it completely by 2020. With the majority of people below the poverty line in China coming from the c...

  • Belt and Road Initiative being materialized for common development, prosperity

    Date:2016/10/25

    BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- China's Belt and Road Initiative is contributing increasingly more to the development and growth in the scores of participating countries, while expanding common interests with them. The initiative, on the footing of hist...

  • New fruit and vegetable varieties introduced to farmers in Zhejiang

    Date:2016/10/25

    Staff members of Zhejiang Mitsuo Seed Company make purity test for the melons in Jiaxing City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Oct. 23, 2016. Mitsuo company has introduced many new fruit and vegetable varieties of high yields to local farmers. (Xinhu...

  • New economies, new momentum ensure long-term growth

    Date:2016/10/25

    Updated: Oct 24,2016 3:25 PM China’s latest economic data from the past three quarters meets expectations, indicating an increasing new growth momentum under a system reform, optimizing structure and upgraded factors of production. Upgrading of consu...

  • China pursues friendly, mutually-beneficial relations with neighbors

    Date:2016/10/25

    Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the eighth BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit in the western Indian state of Goa, Oct. 16, 2016. (Xinhua/Yao Dawei) BEIJING, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- China has always pursued a friendly and ...

  • 1st Meeting of China-Uruguay Joint Committee on Agriculture held in Beijing

    Date:2016/10/24

    Vice Minister Qu Dongyu and Mr. Tabaré Aguerre, Uruguayan Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP),co-chaired the 1st Meeting of China-Uruguay Joint Committee on agriculture in Beijing on Oct. 21, 2016. The two sides spoke highly of th...