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    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      China’s zero-Covid policy risks causing agricultural crisis and food shortages

      Farmers lack fertiliser and labour ahead of crucial spring season due to strict lockdowns

    • Tuesday, 8 October, 2019
      News in-depthAfrican swine fever
      China swine fever outbreak threatens Communist party’s reputation

      Epidemic has sparked rapid rise in pork prices and pushed CPI to six-year high

    • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
      News in-depth
      China swine fever hits small farmers and rural communities hard

      Disease has swept through the country accelerating a shift to big industrial producers

    • Friday, 4 January, 2019
      China puts potatoes at centre of war on rural poverty

      Universities buy crops to support government drive but then struggle to use them

    • Wednesday, 24 October, 2018
      beyondbricsAgriculture
      Can China’s agricultural transformation offer lessons for Africa?

      Hunger and malnutrition tackled via a union of science, government and industry

    • Thursday, 16 August, 2018
      US trade
      Soyabean ship saga tests China’s stance on tariffs

      Demand for stock feed forces Chinese buyers to absorb cost of duties meant to punish US

    • Wednesday, 8 August, 2018
      FT Confidential Research
      Incomplete reform hobbles growth of China’s corporate farms  Premium content

      Farmers, investors and banks at an impasse over question of who owns farmland

    • Thursday, 2 August, 2018
      Chinese society
      China’s indebted conglomerates pile into anti-poverty push

      Villagers say parts of Xi’s project are flawed, as companies seek favour with Beijing

    • Thursday, 12 July, 2018
      News in-depthFood Prices
      Wealthy Chinese consumers drive up price of luxury tea leaves

      Farmers’ incomes soar as environmental authorities remove illegal bushes

    • Tuesday, 22 May, 2018
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      China tightens grip on restive western region

      Paramilitaries expand land reclamation and demographic dilution of Uighurs in Xinjiang

    • Monday, 2 April, 2018
      Chinese politics & policy
      China moves its factories back to the countryside

      Manufacturers lured from the coast as Xi Jinping turns focus to rural revival

    • Monday, 19 February, 2018
      Global Economy
      China seeks bigger catch from far-sea fishing fleet

      State-funded boats scour world’s oceans after depleting local stocks

    • Friday, 22 December, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      China’s ‘pigless villages’ tame volatile pork cycle

      Nationwide pigsty demolitions leave farmers without income

    • Thursday, 19 October, 2017
      Asia-Pacific companies
      China dashes hopes of GM boost after Syngenta deal

      Purchase of Swiss seeds group had been expected to assuage suspicion of the technology

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2017
      US trade
      China approves imports of new US-developed GM crops

      Dow and Monsanto benefit from trade concession to Washington

    • Monday, 27 March, 2017
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      A bigger catch: China’s fishing fleet hunts new ocean targets

      As fish stocks collapse, Beijing’s subsidies send vessels far and wide for squid

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2017
      Retail & Consumer industry
      China confronts issue of how to use up excess corn stocks

      Beijing hunts solutions as failed minimum price policy forces agricultural sector revamp

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2017
      Health
      Resistance to ‘last-resort’ antibiotic spreads from farms in China

      Researchers say transfer from flies to humans adds urgency to drug development

    • Friday, 18 November, 2016
      Chinese society
      China’s hairy crab scandal reveals depth of pollution crisis

      Toxin-tainted crustaceans raise doubts over clean-up of showpiece lake

    • Thursday, 3 November, 2016
      Chinese politics & policy
      China land reform opens door to corporate farming

      Move to bring capital into large-scale agriculture keeps bar on individual ownership

    • Tuesday, 13 September, 2016
      US trade
      US takes China to WTO over farm subsidies

      Case comes as Obama presses for ratification of Pacific Rim trade deal

    • Monday, 5 September, 2016
      News in-depthAgricultural trade
      Go east for free, Moscow tells prospective settlers

      Land programme aims to repopulate sparsely populated region

    • Thursday, 11 August, 2016
      News in-depthThe Big Read
      Commodities: The milk industry cowed

      Dairy farmers adapt to tough times as demand for milk in China slows, hitting New Zealand and the EU

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2016
      Chinese politics & policy
      Chinese province buys up mouldy wheat

      Effort to ease growers’ burden following summer floods will degrade strategic stockpile

    • Monday, 11 July, 2016
      Corn
      China corn shortages loom despite bulging silos

      Lack of quality grain casts doubt on state of country’s reserves

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