Category FAQs Search : Intensive Farming
Question: All our own work
Answer: China is aiming to produce virtually all the grain it needs for at least the next decade despite a growing population and declining farmland because of urbanization, climate change and other factors.
The goal is for China to keep producing more than 95 percent of its grain needs until 2020, said Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, China’s powerful economic planning body.
The self-sufficiency plan is intended to make China less dependent on imports from countries such as the USA and Australia, said Wang Xiaoyi, an agricultural analyst at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
A policy paper said farms have to become more efficient. To improve productivity, exchanges of land rights by rural dwellers should be promoted to enable development of bigger and more intensive farming businesses, it said.
(Source: , 27 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://doi-org.onlinedatabase.librarynet.com.my/10.1108/ijppm.2009.07958cab.004