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Jun 14, 2012, 06:00 ET

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China is stepping towards modernization in various aspects, while agricultural modernization has become a short board of China's modernization. The level of China's agricultural development desperately needs further improvement.

"China Modernization Report 2012 - Research of Agricultural Modernization" (the Report) jointly written by Research Group of China's modernization strategy and Research Center for Modernization of Chinese Academy of Sciences was released on 13 May 2012.

The report points out that China's unit grain yield has reached the average level of developed countries, but the agricultural labor productivity is much lower than that of developed countries. The report believes that China belongs to primary agricultural developed countries and the level of agricultural modernization is lower than that of China's overall modernization.

For example, China's agricultural level in 2008 is lagging behind the UK, the US and Netherlands for over 100 years, according to the comprehensive calculation of agricultural labor productivity, proportion of agricultural added value and proportion of agricultural labor. Moreover, China's agricultural labor productivity is less than 1/10 of China's industrial labor productivity in 2008.

Based on the analysis of the development history of world's agricultual modernization and China's agricultural situation, the Report put forward the strategic objectives of China's agricultural modernization in the 21st century. The first stage of China's agricultural modernization is to achieve the medium level of agricultural modernization in 2050 and the second stage is to achieve the world's advanced level by 2100.

Longping High-tech vigorously enhances its corn seed business in 2011 and the good momentum would continue in 2012.

Grand Agriseeds realizes a significant growth in hybrid rice business after getting listed in March 2011.

It seems to be a trend that domestic seed manufacturers enhance their seed production by leasing land from farmers.

Vegetable prices have generally increased substantially at home since late March 2012 mainly owing to successive heavy rains and increasing shipping cost caused by the soaring oil price.

DBN intends to enhance its biological breeding capacity in the coming few years, with a heavy investment to be gradually implemented.

CSFAC plans to transfer a seed subsidiary to another subsidiary: ZARD, mainly to avoid possible assimilated competition between the two subsidiaries.

In partnership with Huazhong Agricultural University and Peking University, CNSGC has successfully developed the world's first rice genome breeding chip.

Fipronil FS is expected to effectively prevent and control athetis lepigone harming corn seedlings.

Bayer CropScience provides 84 crop seed treaters for the key markets in some provinces of China to improve the retail network of seed treatment products.

"Xianyu 335" has gradually witnessed slow development, mainly due to the intense competition in domestic seed market.

Longping High-tech maintains good development momentum

Grand Agriseeds presents significant growth in 2011

Land circulation expected to promote seed industry

Vegetable prices generally rise substantially

DBN to boost biological breeding

ZARD would take over Wuhan Good-Seed from CSFAC

Rice genome breeding chip born in China

Fipronil FS to control athetis lepigone on corn

Bayer CropScience supplies seed treatment machinery in China

"Xianyu 335" development slowing down

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