Chinese farmers face a daunting planting season as they grapple with a shortage of labor, seed and fertilizer in the wake of a nationwide lockdown to control the spread of coronavirus, reported the Financial Times. A Qufu Normal University survey last month of village officials in 1,636 counties found that 60% of respondents were pessimistic […]
Category: Agriculture
US export sales of pork to China hit their lowest on record in the week ended March 5 even as access to ports improved in the world’s top consumer of pork, the US Agriculture Department (USDA) said on Thursday, reported Reuters. The USDA’s weekly report showed that Chinese buyer cancellations pushed down total export sales to […]
China must not let grain output decline this year, a government working group said on Tuesday, amid worries that measures to contain the ongoing coronavirus outbreak could hurt food security in the world’s most populous country, reported Reuters. Just weeks away from the start of spring planting, the central government’s work group on managing the […]
The risk of swarms entering the country is low, although China will be hampered in tracking the locusts by a lack of monitoring techniques and little knowledge of migration patterns, the National Forestry and Grassland Administrations said on its website, reported Reuters. Locust swarms could enter the Tibet region from Pakistan and India, or the southwestern […]
China’s agriculture ministry said the danger from the armyworm pest is more severe this year, adding that prevention and control measures will be more aggressive, reported Reuters. The destructive pest is expected to affect about 100 million mu (6.67 million hectares) of corn acreage this year, as well as other crops like sugar cane, sorghum […]