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News on Agriculture in China

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Toil on the soil

Chinese soybean deal hit by local politics
Sep 4, 2015 (WiC 294)

Qianyang county magistrate Zhang Guaiya made his name during the Song Dynasty after sentencing an official to death for stealing a single coin. When the official remonstrated that the punishment far outstripped his crime, Zhang is said to have ...

How American cherries got their start in China
Sep 4, 2015 (WiC 294)

To ‘cherry pick’ talent is to suggest that you are choosing the very best. And for a long time that was how the cherry was viewed by Chinese fruit lovers. Locally-grown cherries were viewed as a prestigious luxury item, reserved for the rich, ...

British farms enjoying pork boom in China
May 1, 2015 (WiC 279)

Fancy a slice of Devizes pie? Typically eaten cold, the traditional dish from Britain’s West Country consists of sliced calves brains, pickled tongue, sweetbreads (cuisine chat for the pancreas) and hardboiled eggs. Or how about trying some ...

Grains of truth

Will setbacks in China’s food security plans rattle commodity prices?
Apr 24, 2015 (WiC 278)

Thomas Robert Malthus is best known for his 1798 essay on overpopulation, which warned of a world in which humanity was unable to feed itself. Malthus pointed out that while human populations can increase exponentially, agricultural production ...

Why farmers are giving milk to pigs
Jan 23, 2015 (WiC 267)

"I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, with sufficient milk each day,” former premier Wen Jiabao declared in 2006. Almost a decade on, it appears that Wen’s dream has not only come true but now there is enough milk to ...

Scallop firm’s troubles highlight risks in agricultural stocks
Nov 14, 2014 (WiC 260)

In late 2001 Liu Shuwei was writing a book about how to identify fake financial accounts. The scholar from the Central Finance University stumbled across the fish and lotus root farmer Lantian Stock, a Shenzhen-listed firm with a return on equity ...

US farmers want China to repeal its restrictions on corn imports
Sep 12, 2014 (WiC 252)

When American architect Benjamin Latrobe designed Washington’s Capitol in the early nineteenth century, he incorporated two potent symbols of his new nation’s economic identity at the top of the building’s Corinthian columns – tobacco ...

Why Chinese sugar producers are having a bitter time
Jul 18, 2014 (WiC 246)

A year ago this month Xiwang Sugar changed its name to Xiwang Property. The largest Hong Kong-listed sugar producer had decided to sell its core operations and switch to real estate development, after reporting its first loss for 10 ...

Why did hog giant’s IPO fail to entice investors?
May 2, 2014 (WiC 235)

During the world’s biggest probate dispute a few years ago, a fascinated audience learned that Nina Wang, the late chairwoman of Hong Kong real estate developer Chinachem, paid $270 million to her feng shui adviser (and lover) to dig lucky ...

Soya bean surprise as traders default on orders
Apr 25, 2014 (WiC 234)

The Chinese warn that “even the gods are hard put to foretell the price of mulberry leaves”. The idiom dates back to a period in which fortunes were made using them to fatten silkworms. The proverbial lesson is more prosaic – that it can ...

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