China's grain reserves will run out in two years' time unless production improves, reported China Daily. The warning by officials and agricultural experts came as the National Bureau of Statistics announced that the country's grain harvest was set to drop 2.4 per cent from the 2002 yield of 457m tonnes. This would be the fifth […]
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Wheat Production
China's State Council has pledged to instigate policies to help boost the country's grain production and increase the income of farmers in the face of falling wheat output. By the end of this year's harvest the country's wheat output will be 5 percent lower than last years the fourth consecutive yearly fall and the lowest […]
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Grain Output Drop Worries Officials
Food security is becoming an increasingly worrying concern for Chinese officials. China is set to record a drop in its output of grain for the fifth year in a row. The deputy director of the Agricultural and Rural Committee of China's legislature said that although the country's grain reserves are quite massive, they would be […]
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Reform of grain procurement system
The grain procurement system under which state-run agencies buy farmers' harvests at guaranteed prices is being overhauled and replaced. Under the old system, grain pro-curement agencies bought grain from farm-ers at subsidised prices.. They were funded by loans from the state-run Agricultural Devel-opment Bank, which only had to he repaid when the grain was sold. […]
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Guangdong bans wild animals from
Guangdong province has introduced a new law to ban people from eating wild animals, AFP reported. The measure was drafted shortly after initial research by the University of Hong Kong indicated that civet cats could he the source of the spread to humans of the coronavirus responsible for Sars. This finding was disputed by the […]