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News on Agriculture in China

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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 ...

Army goes on offensive over GM food risks
Sep 13, 2013 (WiC 208)

One is the world’s largest military force, the other sets policies for Chinese arable land. But when it comes to genetically modified crops, it seems that the People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry of Agriculture don’t exactly see eye to ...

Plot development

One of the boldest experiments in Chinese farming is underway in Jiaxing
Jun 28, 2013 (WiC 199)

How do you encourage tens of millions of farmers to move to the city each year? Counter-intuitively, the Chinese government seems to think that the answer is to guarantee them their land rights back home. As part of China’s urbanisation ...

As carcasses float down the Huangpu, one pork entrepreneur is on the up
Mar 22, 2013 (WiC 186)

Thousands of dead pigs floating down a river might not seem like a laughing matter. At last count, at least 14,000 carcasses have drifted down the Huangpu, a major water source for Shanghai. But China’s netizens, long accustomed to food ...

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