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The negative effects on China's agriculture caused by climate change have appeared. There was an increase in agricultural production instability, severe damages ...
For millennia, agriculture has played an important role in the Chinese economy and society. By the time the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, virtually all arable land was under cultivation; irrigation and drainage systems constructed centuries earlier and intensive farming practices already produced relatively high yields.
China's Rural Reform (also called Agricultural Reform) was one of the multiple Chinese reforms implemented in China in 1978. The reforms were initiated by Deng Xiaoping, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party at the time. The reform in the agricultural sector was the first to be introduced which resulted in China meeting 4 objectives :
In general, the issue is how to industrialize agriculture in China. It includes: increasing the marketization level of agricultural production and operation, and stabilizing the prices of agricultural products; changing the situation of smallholder economic agriculture, achieving economies of scale of agricultural production and operation
Pearl farming in China is mainly concentrated in the southeastern part of the country, with the waterways of Zhejiang province serving as the source for China's freshwater pearls. [1] Production has greatly increased through the 1990s and 2000s, with China, according to Times Online, producing 90% of pearl necklaces globally. [1]
Aquaculture is the farming of fish and other aquatic life in enclosures, such as ponds, lakes and tanks, or cages in rivers and coastal waters. China's 2005 reported harvest was 32.4 million tonnes, more than 10 times that of the second-ranked nation, India, which reported 2.8 million tonnes. [2]
Cockroach farming is a specific type of insect farming that involves the breeding of cockroaches as livestock in controlled facilities. Such farming is a sizable industry in China , where large buildings are home to millions of insects.
Under Deng Xiaoping, urbanization in China has expanded at an unprecedented speed since the declaration of "Reform and Open Policy". [2] New policies in China's economy shifted the approach from collective farming to household-based production quotas, in many ways reversing decades of collectivization efforts. In many areas of China, especially ...