Policy push will modernise China's agriculture
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
Subject
China's rural development programme.
Significance
A new rural development initiative is set out in presidential speeches and a key policy document ('Document Number 1') released in January. It attempts to redress imbalances that have disadvantaged China's 580-million-strong rural population.
Impacts
- Farmers will be the main beneficiaries of rural development policies.
- New fertilisers will improve soil fertility, but soil pollution is severe and too costly to clean up anytime soon.
- Just introducing basic machinery will do much to raise agricultural efficiency; much farming is still done by hand.
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