Jan 2016, Volume 18 Issue 1
    

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    Sustainable Development Strategy for Food Security in China
    Research Group of Sustainable Development Strategy for Food Security in China
    2016, 18(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.001
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    Food security is not only an economic issue, but also an important social issue. To ensure national food security, China has to study and evaluate correctly changes in supply and demand in the future; carry out the three development requirements of Great Food View, full industry chain and new greening; draw the alerting line for food security standards and resource utilization; differentiate importing categories and the order of priority; set clear development goals and enhance basic support and technical support. Based on the strategic concept of sustainable development of food security in the future, the paper proposes policy suggestions including setting the core strategy of being basically self-sufficient in grain, speeding up the implementation of the major project of building 1 billion mu of high standard farmlands, carrying out creative operation modes and cultivating the new type of agricultural business entities, improving laws and regulations, promoting the development process of modern agriculture, etc.
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    Strategies and Policies for the Ecological and Food Security of China’s Grassland
    Research Group of Strategies to Ensure Grassland Ecological and Food Security in China
    2016, 18(1): 8-16. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.002
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    As the largest terrestrial ecosystem in China, grassland plays a strategic role in ensuring the ecological and food security and carrying forward the grassland culture of China. This paper analyzes the current situation, development trend and major influence factors of the resources, ecological functions and productivity of the grassland in China and discusses the current and future challenges, opportunities and potential of China’s grassland ecological security and productivity as well as the development of grassland husbandry. Based on the analysis, the author further makes suggestions on the strategic goals and focuses, key measures and major policies for the ecological and food security of China’s grassland.
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    Trend Analysis and Policy Suggestions on Development of Chinese Husbandry Industry during the Period of the 13th Five-Year Plan
    Research Group of Strategic Planning of Chinese Husbandry Development for the 13th Five-Year Plan
    2016, 18(1): 17-21. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.003
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    During the period of the 13th Five-Year Plan and even in a long period in the future, the demand for husbandry products in China will show a rigid increase. But Chinese husbandry is currently faced with unfavorable situations, such as the serious resources shortage, the increasing environmental constraints, and the intense international competitions that exacerbate their impact on domestic husbandry. Based on the above facts, Chinese husbandry should take the sustainable development strategy for the future. This paper analyzes the development status of Chinese husbandry and challenges for its sustainable development and makes a basic judgment on the sustainable development of Chinese husbandry. Aiming at the 13th Five-Year Plan, the paper develops the strategic objectives, strategic priorities and basic principles that will benefit the sustainable development of Chinese husbandry. Furthermore, in order to provide theoretical support for accelerating the transformation of Chinese husbandry development mode, and realizing the husbandry modernization, it also puts forward some important suggestions on “further making clear the strategic dominance of husbandry in modern agriculture development” and “reasonable use of the international market to protect domestic food security” and “quickly launching and implementing a batch of key husbandry science and technology R&D programs”.
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    Study on Sustainable Development Strategy of Food Crops Industry
    Liu Xu,Wang Jimin,Wang Xiudong,Song Lili,Yan Yan
    2016, 18(1): 22-33. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.004
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    Food security is important for a country’s prosperity and stability and it is also an important safeguard of steady economy and social development. The study focuses on sustainable development and national food security. Based on the development status of the Chinese food industry, and the problems, development trends, opportunities and challenges of food security, this paper proposes the strategic objectives, strategic ideas, key safeguard measures and policy recommendations to ensure future national food security.
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    Study on Sustainable Development Strategy of Chinese Horticultural Industry
    Deng Xiuxin ,Xiang Zhaoyang,Li Chongguang
    2016, 18(1): 34-41. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.005
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    The paper analyzes the constraint factors and main problems of Chinese horticultural industry. The horticultural industry is a major agricultural pillar industry in China which is highly market-oriented. It is important for national economy and the people’s livelihood and can guarantee urban and rural residents’ nutrition health and increase peaeants’ income. The study proposes that the government should carry out five strategies, i.e., layout optimization, deepening market-oriented development, going out, improving quality and effectiveness and extending industrial chain, to ensure the sustainable development of Chinese horticultural industry.
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    Changes of China’s Edible Oil Security Strategies: Domestic Condition and International Situation
    Ma Wenjie
    2016, 18(1): 42-47. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.006
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    The fact that edible oil materials have become the primary agricultural products in China with the largest dependency on international market is the main reason for the trade deficit of international agricultural products. The large import of vegetable oil materials has a big effect on national grain and food security, resident consumption and even national economy. On account of the new grain security strategy, the growth space of our national edible oil materials is limited, the production potential is great but hard to become real production, and the future consumption will increase. Under the new normal of the large import of vegetable oil materials, global edible oil production potential is great, China has the ability to obtain a stable supply of edible oil materials from the international market, and the external environment of edible oil material supply security is complicated. According to the new domestic conditions and international situation, the paper offers the following new security strategies for edible oil: maintaining capacity, keeping benchmark, importing initiatively and healthy consumption.
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    Development Strategy of Agricultural Products Processing in China
    Sun Baoguo,Wang Jing,Tan Bin
    2016, 18(1): 48-55. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.007
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    Agricultural products processing is the process of manufacturing agricultural products into finished and semi-finished products. Food industry is the essential part of agricultural products processing. The overall technic level and the degree of modernization of food industry are important indicators of economic and social development as well as the level of civilization of a nationality, a country or a region. The strategic background, opportunities and challenges for development as well as the problems faced by Chinese food industry are analyzed in this paper and the development strategy of food industry in China is also proposed.
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    Study on Strategies for the Sustainable Development of China’s Agricultural Resources and Environment
    Li Wenhua,Cheng Shengkui,Mei Xurong,Liu Moucheng,Hong Chuanchun
    2016, 18(1): 56-64. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.008
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    Food security is based on the agricultural resources and environment. At present, China’s agricultural resources and environment have been faced with three problems. First, due to the shrinking of sown areas and the quality reduction and spatial pattern changes of cultivated land, China’s cultivated land resource cannot provide sustainable support for its food production. Second, the contradiction between “the increasing grain demand and the decreasing water resource” has become obvious and the “north-to-south grain transfer” has been increasingly difficult. Third, the agricultural eco-environment has deteriorated and the service function of the agricultural ecosystem cannot be brought into full play. To solve these problems, we should implement the efficient modern ecological agriculture strategy, rebalancing strategy in the grain production area and the trade substitution strategy. Based on these strategies, relevant policy suggestions are also put forward.
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    A Study on the Development Strategy of Agricultural Sciences and Technologies for Food Security in China
    Zhan Jintao,Jiang Ailiang,Lin Guanghua,Yu Jianfei,Zhao Jinming,Gai Junyi
    2016, 18(1): 65-72. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.009
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    It has become an urgent task in China to develop modern agricultural sciences and technologies for supporting food security since the establishment of the national food policy. Based on the clarification of the concept of food security and distinguishing human being food from animal feed, the future supply potential and deficit of agricultural products from the existed cultivated and non-cultivated land resources were estimated. It was indicated that the arable land should be used mainly for human being cereal production while the animal feed could be produced from some cultivated land, grassland and sea or ocean area. Then the major scientific and technological problems to be resolved for securing the food production in China were put forward, including the science and technology in arable land expansion, improvement and replacement, those in efficient sustainable utilization of the cultivated land and those in coping with the abiotic stresses, as well as the corresponding top-level blue print design of the future research essentials. It was noticed that the interactive development strategy between the advanced agricultural science and technology innovation and the conventional industry technology improvement should be emphasized as a priority. Furthermore, the strategy and policy for the reform of the organization system and management mechanism in the government management of science and technology were suggested, including the establishment of permanent center for sustainable food production monitoring and decision making, the differential responsibilities for ministry of agriculture and ministry of science and technology, the top level blue print design of the science and technology development in agriculture, the science and technology innovation recognized after benefiting the agro-production, and so for.
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    Carbon Sequestration of Grassland in China
    Gao Shuqin ,Zhao Xia,Fang Jingyun
    2016, 18(1): 73-79. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.010
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    Based on the research of the grassland carbon sink in China and the remote sensing data from 1982 to 2011, the total carbon storage of the grassland ecosystem in China is about 31.2 PgC, 96 % of which are stored in the soil. The vegetation carbon density of grassland is highly spatially heterogeneous due to various types of grassland and vast distribution in China. The largest grassland vegetation carbon sink in China is located in Inner Mongolia, followed by Tibet and Qinghai, while that of the six main pastoral areas accounts for 71 % of the national grassland vegetation carbon sink. However, 90 % of the natural grassland in China has degraded more or less. Effective managements and implementation of major ecological construction projects have played an important role in the recovery of grassland carbon storage, which indicates that the grassland in China has great potential for carbon sequestration.
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    Potential Analysis and Policy Recommendations for Restructuring the Crop Farming and Developing Forage Industry in China
    Li Xianglin,Shen Yuying,Wan Liqiang
    2016, 18(1): 94-105. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.012
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    Developing forage/livestock farming in cropping areas can help to enhance the integration, in both spatial and temporal dimensions, of forages into food and/or cash crop systems and thus to improve the use efficiency of agricultural resources. Currently the advantages of forages in cropping areas have not been well exploited mainly because of the traditional thinking of agricultural production and the government policies that favour food crops. In this article, the current status and future potential of forage industry development on croplands are analyzed and relevant policy recommendations are proposed.
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    Study on the Carbon Sink Function of Crop Production in Typical Agricultural Areas of China
    She Wei,Huang Huang,Guan Chunyun,Chen Fu,Chen Guanghui
    2016, 18(1): 106-113. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.013
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    China is a big agricultural country. The research on the carbon sink function of crop production in China’s typical agricultural areas plays an important role in estimating the regional carbon budget and making management policies to tackle climate changing issue. The production of staple crops can be generally reflected by their carbon sinks. The carbon sinks of different crops in the same area differ greatly, and the carbon sink of the same crop also differs in different areas. The national annual reserve of soil organic carbon can be generally embodied in its carbon sink as well. The annual reserves of soil organic carbon in different areas range between –2.07 TgC·y–1 and 19.95 TgC·y–1.
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    The Current Carbon Sink Structure of China’s Staple Crop Production and Its Optimization Approach
    She Wei,Huang Huang,Guan Chunyun,Chen Fu,Chen Guanghui
    2016, 18(1): 114-122. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.014
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    The global warming caused by heavy emissions of greenhouse gases has posed a great threat to the existence and development of mankind. The carbon sink function of crops has an important regulating effect on climate changes. Actually the production of crops can be seen as the carbon source as well as the carbon sink. In this article, the authors gather and analyze the relevant carbon emission parameters of the staple crop production system in China, estimate the carbon sink effect of farmland and its dynamic change feature and quantitatively evaluate the carbon input and output of these crop production systems. In this way, the paper provides a basis for making the low-carbon agriculture planning and policies and proposes the approach to optimizing the carbon sink structure of the farmland in China.
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    Study on Development Strategy of Vegetable Seed Industry in China
    Wang Lihao,Fang Zhiyuan,Du Yongchen,Xu Donghui,Zhang Yangyong, Yang Limei,Gong Yifan,Liu Fuzhong,Zhuang Feiyun
    2016, 18(1): 123-136. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.015
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    China is the largest vegetable producer and consumer in the world. Vegetable seed industry is an important material basis for modern vegetable industry development and annual balanced vegetable supply. The sustainable development of the vegetable seed industry is promoted by technical innovation. The Chinese vegetable seed industry has entered into a critical period for development. This paper analyzes the present situation of the vegetable seed industry and seed technology in China, compares it with that in foreign countries, and proposes the development strategies, goals, tasks, safeguard measures and policy recommendations of vegetable seed industry of China according to major problems confronted.
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    Study on Strategy of Large Scale, Mechanization, Informationization, Intelligence and Social Services for Cotton Production
    Yu Shuxun,Zhang Lei,Feng Wenjuan
    2016, 18(1): 137-148. https://doi.org/10.15302/J-SSCAE-2016.01.016
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    The development of large scale, mechanization, informationization, intelligence and social services for cotton production is an inevitable choice to solve the labor shortage in cotton production, reduce the cost of cotton production, realize cotton industry modernization and consolidate the cotton industry dominance. The paper introduces the basic situation of cotton cultivation, the development situation and restricting factors of large scale, mechanization, informationization, intelligence and social services for cotton production in China, and puts forwards suggestions for easy cotton planting.