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News on Agriculture in China

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Burning wheat fields are a hot topic online
May 20, 2022 (WiC 585)

The current crop of China’s senior political figures, including President Xi Jinping, were born in the 1950s. As teenagers during the Cultural Revolution, many of them were sent to work as labourers in rural parts of the country. That programme ...

A family falling out

WH Group dismisses dramatic accusations from chairman’s son
Aug 27, 2021 (WiC 553)

Across the vast and storied history of the Roman Empire, Constantine the Great remains one of the most influential rulers. Born in today’s Serbia, he unified the eastern and western parts of the empire and founded the eponymous imperial city ...

Taking a pig to market

Thailand’s richest tycoon targets a Shanghai IPO for its pork business
Jun 11, 2021 (WiC 544)

Dhanin Chearavanont ran into some of the toughest times of his life in 1998. His firm Charoen Pokphand Group was on the verge of bankruptcy as Thailand’s economy buckled in the wake of the Asian financial crisis. But even during the worst of ...

Pork-barrel politics

What do semiconductors and pig farming have in common?
Jan 22, 2021 (WiC 525)

Talk of the need for self-sufficiency in China’s economy has centred on semiconductors, where an embargo on sales of key components from American vendors has squeezed Chinese firms in desperate need of supply. But what about the scarcity of ...

Growing concern

Beijing worries about reliance on imported seeds
Oct 9, 2020 (WiC 514)

This summer people in the UK and North America started to receive small packets of seeds in the post. Two things were odd about these deliveries: one, the parcels were unsolicited; and two, the packages had been sent from China. Conspiracy ...

Pigs really can fly

How high-rise hoggeries are reaching for the skies
Sep 18, 2020 (WiC 511)

Just call them ‘sty-scrapers’ – multi-storey farms that house thousands of pigs and reduce the pressure on scarce agricultural land in China. The first of these towers went up in 2015 with a nine-storey property in the southern ...

Bringing home the bacon

Why real estate giant Vanke is having a go at pig farming
May 22, 2020 (WiC 496)

Pork is central to the Chinese diet. But despite consuming half the world’s pig meat, Chinese domestic supply is haphazard, much of it coming from small-scale farmers with backyard hoggeries. This kind of fragmented market has contributed to ...

From farm to fork

Supplies of key foodstuffs keep flowing, despite the virus crisis
Apr 10, 2020 (WiC 490)

A couple of weeks of self-isolation has been too much to ask of some Covid-19 quarantiners, who have been denounced for selfish behaviour in flouting the stay-at-home rules. But that’s a much briefer period than for the thousands of pigs ...

Confusion as to what wildlife can no longer be eaten after new ban
Mar 13, 2020 (WiC 486)

What is ‘wildlife’ and should people be allowed to eat it? Those are two of the questions for the policymakers charged with preventing outbreaks of coronavirus-like infections in future. As many readers will know, Covid-19 is a zoonotic ...

Another setback for seafood firm Zhangzidao
Nov 22, 2019 (WiC 475)

Zhangzidao county comprises 13 islands in the Yellow Sea near Dalian. In the 1970s a people’s commune there made the front page of the People’s Daily for the size of its seafood harvests. The local waters were so clear and the marine life was ...

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