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News on Agriculture in China

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Not so black and white

A power struggle escalates at China’s largest dairy producer
Nov 9, 2018 (WiC 431)

Long before ‘Fake News’ became Donald Trump’s favourite bugbear, there were tools in China to curb the spread online of what Beijing deems to be ‘misinformation’. Recently a state-run web service called Piyao has been introduced to ...

Pig in the middle

WH Group hit by swine flu and trade war
Aug 31, 2018 (WiC 422)

The children’s cartoon character Peppa Pig was banned from Chinese social media in May. The British creation, the People’s Daily lambasted, had become associated with a subversive netizen counterculture that was distorting Peppa’s image to ...

Jilin fire raises old questions about grain supply
Aug 17, 2018 (WiC 420)

In 1735 the Emperor Qianlong ordered an audit of his grain reserves. One of his largest granaries then burned to the ground before his audit team could visit. The intrigue surrounding the fire was so rich that it became the subject of a 2002 soap ...

When pigs have wings

WH Group sizzles, but it isn’t China’s most valuable pork firm
Sep 8, 2017 (WiC 379)

Belle International joined Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index in 2012. But the footwear maker was taken private in July and investors have been betting on the firm that would step into its shoes on the city’s index. The newcomer is WH Group, ...

Getting a taste

Chinese diners are reshaping global agriculture
Jun 23, 2017 (WiC 371)

As China’s population has grown, so has its appetite. And as people become wealthier, their tastes become more varied too. In WiC294 we reported on Fruit Day, an online retailer of fresh products trying to outmaneouvre supermarket supply ...

Singapore’s Wilmar eyes Shanghai listing
Jun 23, 2017 (WiC 371)

In February 1917, China’s biggest English language daily, the China North Daily News, published a story claiming that a German factory was harvesting fat from dead soldiers to make edible oils, soap and boot dubbing. The Shanghai-based paper ...

How China’s fertilizer market has struggled
May 12, 2017 (WiC 365)

When the agricultural scientist Franklin Hiram King visited China at the turn of the twentieth century he was amazed the country had been able to till the land for 40-odd centuries without depleting the soil. By contrast, his native America was ...

Up from the deep

Shares in fishery firm surge after suffering from Indonesian ban
Mar 31, 2017 (WiC 360)

At Chinese New Year when families gather for dinner, it is traditional to have at least one serving of fish. The Chinese word for fish, yu, is a homophone for the term meaning ‘surplus’. The superstition is that starting the year ...

WH Group sees synergies with Farmer John
Dec 2, 2016 (WiC 348)

When the US imposed tariffs on Chinese tyres in September 2009, Beijing swiftly responded by targeting American imports of chicken feet. China has warned it will do the same again if the US President-elect Donald Trump ups the ante as he promised ...

The plot thickens

Changes in land ownership rules are designed to boost crop yields
Nov 11, 2016 (WiC 345)

Land rights in China differ between town and country. The state owns all urban plots, while local collectives – first enshrined under Mao’s Great Leap Forward – own all the rural land. But it gets more complicated: while rural land is ...

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