2010, 01.22
BEIJING, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) — The quality of China’s agricultural
produce including vegetables, domestic animals and aquatics was
improved in 2009, the Ministry of Agriculture said Monday.
The ministry released an annual report based on monitoring
results of agricultural products, saying 96.4 percent of
vegetables had met safety standards in 2009, up 0.1 percentage
points year on year.
The rate was 99.5 percent for domestic animals, up 0.8
percentage points, and 97.2 percent for aquatic products, up 1.5
percentage points.
The monitoring of fruits, mushrooms and tea, for the first time
in 2009, found 98 percent, 95.2 percent, and 94.8 percent of
products in the three categories met standards.
In
2009, the inspections became more detailed, covered more
categories, and were carried out in 259 large and medium-sized
cities, compared with only 36 major cities previously, the
ministry said.
The ministry said it would step up the control over the use of
prohibited pesticides and veterinary drugs in 2010 in order to
further improve the quality and safety of agricultural produce.
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China to stabilize agricultural market
05-28-2010 08:54 BJT
The central government has taken actions to curb irrational
vegetable price rises, as cornering products and forcing up the
price has become a common problem recently.
New regulations aim to stress supervision towards the
agriculture market, and maintain the normal order of the market.
A government notice requires all local governments to rearrange
the market order. And in serious cases, prosecuting criminal
liabilities is necessary.
Meanwhile, the early warning system should be improved in order
to forecast and prohibit speculative selling of agricultural
products.
Heilongjiang leases land, grows crops
in Russia
(Xinhua) Updated: 2010-05-29 15:45
HARBIN - Northeast China's Heilongjiang province has leased
426,667 hectares of land in Russia to grow crops, the provincial
agriculture commission said on Friday.
As China's northernmost province, Heilongjiang shares a
3,038-kilometer-long border with Russia.
The province has cooperated with Russia in agriculture,
including farming, breeding and agricultural-products
processing, the commission's statement said.
Mudanjiang, a border city in southern Heilongjiang, alone has
146,667 hectares of cropland in Russia, a 42 percent increase
compared with the same time last year. The city also has 16 feed
mills and two lipid-processing plants in Russia.
Heilongjiang is the largest commodity-grain production base in
China. Its grain output totaled 43.5 billion kilograms last
year.
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