Agri News

1 July 2020

On 27 June 2020, MARA released official guidelines to accelerate the development of facility-based agriculture and horticulture. The document points out the importance of facility-based horticulture technologies and equipment for securing the “vegetable basket” and for increasing farmer’s income. [...]

8 June 2020

On 8 June 2020, China published the “Report on Implementation Achievements of Rural Revitalization Strategic Planning (2018-2019)”. The report is jointly prepared by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC) and other 25 relevant ministries. The report concludes that the implementation of the strategic planning in the past two years has achieved significant progress and laid a good foundation for the implementation in the forthcoming years [...]

16 April 2020

This summary was prepared based on the report “5G+agricultural application”, released on April 8, 2020, by Gao Kaoping from VCEARTH agri-consulting company (35斗), based in Chongqing, China (http://vcearth.com/).[...]

8 April 2020

As a follow up action to implement the rural governance strategy promulgated in China’s 2020 No.1 Document, on 2 April, the Department of Rural Cooperative Economy, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), signed a cooperation framework agreement with Tencent Co., LTD and China Telecom Group to expand the application of information technologies and “Internet+” in rural areas. [...]

18 March 2020

On 11 March 2020 a ministerial notice on the 2020 Agricultural and Rural Policies and Rural Reform Work has been released by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. The notice highlighted the following key policy and reform areas: [...]

18 March 2020

As follow-up action of implementing China’s 2020 No.1 Document, on 9 March 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) published a Plan for Promoting Healthy Development of New Agricultural Business Entities/Entrepreneurs and Service Providers (2020-2022). [...]

11 March 2020

On 3 March 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA), the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), jointly released an Official Notice on Subsidizing the Scrapping of Agricultural Machines. [...]

3 March 2020

Inspired by an ancient Chinese saying “A good start-up in the spring ensures the whole year harvest”, on 25 February 2020, Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) held a national video conference for arranging 2020 spring agricultural work. [...]

2 March 2020

In compliance with the national No. 1 Document on Agriculture and Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) promulgated an official notice on key countermeasures to ensure China’s 2020 Crop Production on 6 February 2020. [...]

12 February 2020

The Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ) has again received important support. As the responsible project manager from the implementing company (IAK Agrar Consulting GmbH, Leipzig) Stanimira Penkova reports, the Vice Minister of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Taolin, appreciated the project on January 17 when he visited the state of Saxony as an important link between the agricultural sectors of both countries. [...]