The Chinese government tried to silence them. It backfired.
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Agriculture Green Development in China: Insights and Advances
Introduction:
Introduction:
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1.1 Recent developments in agriculture in China
China transformed from an agrarian society into an economic powerhouse following the introduction of the open-door policy in the 1980s[1,2] and Chinese agriculture has undergone a rapid transformation over the past 40 years. Agricultural production has increased substantially, facilitated by improved crop and animal husbandry practices and genetics, while the proportion of people working full time in agriculture has decreased significantly[3–5]. By 2015, China was able to largely meet the growing demand for food based on domestic production. Grain harvest increased for 19 consecutive years and then remained stable at over 650 Mt for eight consecutive years[6]. Yet, the import of animal feed (notably soybeans, maize and forage) has also strongly increased over the past 20 years, because domestic feed production has been insufficient to meet the growing feed demand of the rapidly increasing animal production sector. Over 40 years, agriculture largely transformed from subsistence farming systems to market-driven farming systems, while an increasing proportion of rural household income is derived from off-farm sources. Over the past 40 years, the annual growth of real agricultural gross domestic product averaged 4.5%. The development of agriculture and the increase in off-farm employment strongly has reduced rural poverty[7].
However, agricultural development in China has been accompanied with unprecedented environmental degradation. Increased food production has been largely achieved by high resource inputs with a high environmental footprint of the food produced[8,9]. Additionally, the urban-rural income gap has widened[7], while an increasing proportion of the urban population is suffering poor health from consumption of poor-quality food and is overweight[10]. Further, the Central Conference on Rural Work in December 2022 indicated that 50 Mt more grain must be produced in the next few years in order to meet the increasing food demand of an increasing population and an improving standard of living[6]. Evidently, the challenges for agriculture in China are large; there is an urgent need for agricultural development which increases productivity, strongly decreases environmental pollution and improves environmental-economic-social resilience.
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Seriously who is the genious that came up with that? I'm sure that's going into history books.
