With new breakthroughs in biological breeding technology, widespread promotion of high-yield and efficient technology models and continuous improvement of farmland quality, it is expected that China's grain yield per unit will incre...
“There are few large swathes of farmland in China, and each region has its own features in terms of agriculture,” Wu said. “For instance, the vegetable production bases at Shouguang, Shandong province, are labor-intensive with many glass greenhouses to be taken care of in winter. Consider...
Smart farming can not only reduce the cost of agricultural production, but also effectively solve the issue of unattended farmland, said Li Zhenfeng, deputy director of the Cheng'an county agriculture and rural affairs bureau. This comes after Hebei has promoted the use of information technology ap...
The development of seeds is a vivid illustration of the significant agricultural advances made in Taigu. This district has cultivated 44,460 mu of high-standard farmland, which accounts for more than 66 percent of total farmland in the district, and has developed a 24,400 mu efficient water-sa...
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China has ensured its farmland area remains above the redline of 1.8 billion mu (about 120 million hectares) and accumulatively fostered a total of 900 million mu of high-standard farmland, said Deng. China's integrated mechanization rate of agricultural production has surpassed 72 percent. The in...
In a major institutional innovation in the past decade, China has allowed farmers to retain contract rights concerning their allotted farmland, while transferring management rights if farmers decide to lease the land to others. This reform, together with the extension of the rural land contract by ...
New Agriculture: Aiming to build a ″backyard garden″ of Shanghai and Hangzhou, Tongxiang encourages the industrial and commercial investment in agriculture to develop courtyard economy, farmland economy and manorial economy, and facilitates the shifting of traditional agriculture into sightseeing ...
“grain-for-green” and grazing exclusion practices may be too primitive to combat desertification (Figs.1and4), and more practices, such as the establishment of farmland shelterbelts35, water conservation in agriculture36, and the implementation of rotational grazing37, may be more suitable for ...
In late March, dozens of automated fertilizer spreaders were being operated at the same time in Liutuan Town, in the city of Changyi, east China's Shandong Province, shuttling back and forth on more than 100,000 mu (6,666 hectares) of farmland. Such a vivid scene would have been hard ...