China’s Farmland Is In Trouble

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Unlike Trudopia and parts of Eco-Europe, they’re not doing it on purpose.

Since taking office in 2013, Xi has stressed that “the rice bowls of the Chinese people must always be held firmly in our own hand and filled mainly with Chinese grain.” His approach to safeguarding national food security rests on achieving self-sufficiency by increasing domestic supply. At the Central Economic Work Conference in December 2022, Xi reiterated the importance of bolstering China’s capacity to ensure food security and self-sufficiency.

Xi is correct to recognize that preserving farmland is an indispensable factor in the quest to achieve food self-sufficiency. China has experienced alarming levels of farmland loss and deterioration in recent years. The most recent land use survey showed that China’s total arable land decreased from 334 million acres in 2013 to 316 million acres in 2019, a loss of more than 5 percent in just six years. Shockingly, more than one-third of China’s remaining arable land (660 million mu, a traditional unit of land measurement in China and equal to roughly 109 million acres, slightly larger than Montana) suffers from problems of degradation, acidification, and salinization.

23 Replies to “China’s Farmland Is In Trouble”

  1. “Xi is correct to recognize that preserving farmland is an indispensable factor in the quest to achieve food self-sufficiency.”

    Well, he’s smarter than dipshit Blackie, then.

    1. I like how you managed to make an ostensibly positive remark about President Xi’s intelligence without actually complimenting him.

  2. Well, where is that retarded Swedish kid, huh? This sounds very, very SERIOUS!

    I’m just re-reading “Animal Farm” (because living in the prequel to 1984 isn’t fun anymore), and while not as well-known as 1984…pretty much on the nose.

    Leave it to the “experts” to kill us with spreadsheets.

    1. Hallmark Media (yes, really) did a very good adaptation of Animal Farm in 1999. They even got that hoary old socialist Peter Ustinov to voice Major, the pig.

  3. This has been going on for a while, hence the buying of North American land.

    This could be ended when we want it to.

    1. @Osumashi Kinyobe: I have not disagreed with you before but I must do so now. What we want is two things.

      First and foremost, we want Canadians to be free to wealthy in exactly the ways they want. If a farmer wants to sell to a foreigner we ought to let him unless something huge over powers his rights.

      The only thing I can see that might do that is destruction of the arable nature of the land. No doubt our enemies, the Chinese, Russians, EU and Justin and the Liberals would like that, but if their citizens own the land and don’t destroy it, who cares?

      What I think we need is free sales to foreigners and non resident taxes on them, bi-annual inspections to ensure no damage and immediate forfeiture if there is damage. All inspections to be by private enterprise inspectors.

      That farm land is an asset of both the private owner and the nation. Each can be protected without interfering with the other.

      Cheers, keep up the fight and a bas les commies.

  4. Maybe, the Chicoms should bulldoze those Potemkin villages, and reclaim farmland from their urban areas.

  5. Ya know all those sci-fi movies … where aliens invade the earth to harvest humans for food? Uh, yeahhhh … that’s just a metaphor for when 1.5 Billion ChiCom mouths come to feed on Canadian and American farmland … and make the natives eat empty seed pods to survive.

  6. The comparison between China’s demand to preserve farmland and the west, currently Canada, UK and Holland, with more to follow I’m sure, on reducing fertilizer, reducing farmland, and reducing meat animal production, this shows the truth of the reality of what western governments (WEF/UN/WHO etc) have planned for us peasants.

    I still wonder when the final push/solution comes, will we fight back on our feet, or will we meekly, while glued to our phone screens, board the cattle train to our final destination? Especially us older types who are now retired, and therefore no longer of any use to productive society. We are truly now the useless eaters in their eyes!

    Personally, I have no intention of going quietly!

    1. I still wonder when the final push/solution comes, will we fight back on our feet, or will we meekly, while glued to our phone screens, board the cattle train to our final destination?

      Do you really have to ask?

  8. And what better way for China to help get herself cheap plentiful fertilizer is to have her Useful Idiots in the West mandate themselves to not use it.

  11. … Heifer Hank

    You are correct about China. Col. Dog MacGregor when interviewed and asked about war with China reminds the interviewer it is an attempt by the Biden regime to take the focus off their current screw ups such as Ukraine. His interviews are insightful on war … ” everyone should be afraid of war” , Ukraine history , WW 2 history , China Belt & Road / Ukraine / Russia.
    https://futuredefensevisions.blogspot.com/?m=1

    As he points out , China has no interest in war with the West. Their main problem is feeding a huge population , given that starvation has been the downfall of previous Chinese dynasties , of which the CCP is the current dynasty.

  12. How is that possible after decades of the perfection of central planning?
    A sarcastic font is needed.

  13. China does have an advantage though, Russia needs ammo, China needs fertilizers.

    Here our Laurentian enviro-betters have mandated a massive reduction of our fertilizer use (so our exports drop).

    Globally, we will see a billion people facing starvation in a year or two. Zeihan goes on about this at length. We’ll, clickbait length anyway.

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