China Pivots to Ensuring Food Security; Encouraging Farmers to Increase Acreage, Use New Technology
China’s top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), said on Tuesday that China’s food supply is adequate to meet current market demand while pledging to further strengthen production expansion and stabilize market prices as the country enters the critical moment of the spring plowing season, according to the Global Times.
Amid rising geopolitical uncertainties in the world, the government has pledged to do all in its capacity to ensure the supplies of food such as corn and soybeans, and provide sufficient fertilizers so that farmers could expand agricultural output and increase grain storage.
From Xinjiang in China’s northwest to Jilin in the northeast, Chinese farmers are going all out during the spring plowing season in response to the government’s call to ensure adequate food supplies and stabilize market prices. In a corn seed field in Manas County in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, five high-horsepower tractors equipped with China’s self-developed BeiDou navigation system are precisely operating according to the pre-set sowing route, significantly enhancing the seeding efficiency for corn.
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