He sees a continuing vast migration of Chinese farmers to coastal cities, doubling the size of Beijing and Shanghai.

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But not for long: American and Chinese farmers are already planting more maize.

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In a Chinese farmers market, stooges handed over either clean or dirty notes, then asked for 500g of an extra vegetable.

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Total state support to Chinese farmers has more than doubled since 2004.

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"Our service was terrible - that was the assumption from the beginning, " says the Ivy Leaguer, whose ethnic Chinese family founded Thai Farmers (No. 96 in the 500) in 1945.

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Chinese police have questioned 78 people -- including dairy farmers and milk dealers -- about the contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua earlier Saturday.

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It turns out that the Chinese think that pickup trucks and SUVs are for farmers.

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After all (as the board points out), it worked for the Chinese gooseberry, a hairy rarity until New Zealand's farmers banded together and propelled the kiwi fruit on to the world's dessert trolleys.

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In the U.S., the rice-futures contract has been moving in a narrow range for the past year, largely because China doesn't buy rice from the U.S. Some U.S. rice farmers have noticed and are pushing the USDA and Chinese authorities to allow U.S. rice to be sold in China.

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An inquiry into the impact of Chinese lanterns on livestock has been welcomed by the leader of the National Farmers' Union in Gloucestershire.

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