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China to accelerate Agricultural modernization
BEIJING, July 1 (Xinhua) -- More
effort will be made to speed up China's agricultural
modernization, ensure the nation's food security and increase
farmers' incomes, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang said on
Tuesday.
China will modernize its farms to support sustainable and
healthy development of the economy and society, Wang said at a
seminar in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang
Province.
China should bolster the development of large-scale farming,
improve agricultural infrastructure, enhance technology in
agriculture, strengthen agricultural resources and environmental
protection, said Wang.
It should also improve labor productivity, global
competitiveness and the sector's capability for sustainable
growth, deepen reforms and establish an innovation system in
rural areas, he stressed.
China to develop high-standard farmland to ensure output
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- China
is to develop 800 million mu (53.3 million hectares) of drought
and flood resistant farmland by 2020 in an effort to ensure
output, agriculture minister Han Changfu has disclosed.
Restrained by land and water resources, China should rely on
technology and new varieties of seed to extract maximum yields,
Han emphasized at a training session on grain output.
With shrinking arable land and widespread land pollution,
ensuring output to meet the demands of over a billion people is
a very high priority.
A red line guarantees that arable land shall never shrink to
less than 120 million hectares, and in 2013, grain output
increased by 2.1 percent to hit more than 600 million tonnes,
the 10th straight year of increased production.
Earlier this month, Han said China is poised for a record bumper
harvest this summer.
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