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News on Agriculture in China

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A meaty problem

Chinese authorities rush to curb pork prices
Sep 20, 2019 (WiC 467)

Pork is China’s favourite meat. The country’s 1.4 billion people consumed 56 million tonnes of the stuff last year – equal to the rest of the world combined. But as the Communist-led country prepares for the seventieth anniversary of its ...

Raising a stink

With China’s corn crop at risk, nation’s scientists wage war on armyworms
Jul 5, 2019 (WiC 458)

China’s farming community has a wealth of ancient proverbs to predict weather activity, one being: ‘A storm of black dragonflies, and a drought is coming’. But at the moment the farmers are more watchful for caterpillars, which have been ...

Fruit for thought

Why “fruit freedom” has become a buzzword in China
May 31, 2019 (WiC 454)

For a brief period in the mid-sixties the mango was an object of reverence in China. It was the start of the Cultural Revolution and groups of angry students were tearing the country apart. Mao Zedong ordered a unit of Beijing workers to storm ...

Russian roulette

Even as pig flu crisis worsens, Rusagro bets big
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

It’s hard to figure out whether Moscow-based Rusagro Group’s latest hog venture in China is more bizarrely or astutely timed – given all the headlines about the growing Chinese pork crisis and the nation’s mass culling of pigs. In ...

Avocado imports hit 43,000 tonnes last year
May 17, 2019 (WiC 452)

The “alligator pear” or “butter fruit” – as it is nicknamed in China – is also referred to as a “grenade-like fruit” by netizens because of the explosive interest from its health-conscious fans. It is, of course, better known in ...

Bringing home the bacon

Investors hope that the Year of the Pig will see pork industry sizzle
Jan 25, 2019 (WiC 438)

Pig farming has proved a surprising sideline for some of China’s tech tycoons. Ding Lei’s NetEase was one of the first internet giants to start hog-rearing. The video streaming and online gaming firm started a pig production division ...

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, ...

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