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.
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.
China recently announced that it is building a dam on the Brahmaputra, which it calls the Yarlung Tsangpo, exacerbating an old Indian fear that the Beijing regime means to divert the river's waters to Chinese farmers.
If there was one dynamic that existed from the end of 1978 the beginning of the reform era until the middle of 2008 the beginning of the Great Recession it is that the planners of the Communist Party have been trying to catch up with Chinese farmers and entrepreneurs as they sought to create their own livelihoods, independent of the mighty state.
Distraught Thai, Laotian and Cambodian fisherman and farmers blame Chinese dams for killing off fish stocks, cutting irrigation and disrupting livelihoods.
"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.
Chinese police have questioned 78 people -- including dairy farmers and milk dealers -- about the contamination, a Chinese official told Xinhua earlier Saturday.
Local farmers and the Chinese are furious at the ban, which the government thinks will help the country's cotton mills.
It turns out that the Chinese think that pickup trucks and SUVs are for farmers.
Its March 5 ban aimed at boosting domestic supplies in light of a surging export surplus drew criticism from domestic farmers, political leaders and a key Chinese trade lobby.
The government says it will not compensate the pig farmers, most of whom are ethnic Chinese, for their losses, although there is a possibility that lotteries will be arranged to raise some money for them.
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.
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.
An inquiry into the impact of Chinese lanterns on livestock has been welcomed by the leader of the National Farmers' Union in Gloucestershire.
The next time American and British farmers raise a glass of moonshine (or scrumpy), they should toast the Chinese.
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