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Food Security, Farm Income and Trade Policy

In: China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads

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  • Yongzheng Yang
  • Yiping Huang

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Food security has long been a key objective of China’s agricultural policy. It is alleged that Mao Zedong once said, ‘You don’t panic when you have grain.’ In the commune era, grain production was pursued at any cost. Grassland and forests were converted into cropland to the detriment of the environment, as well as the livestock and forestry industries. Production of non-grain crops was minimised in order to leave more arable land for grain production.

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  • Yongzheng Yang & Yiping Huang, 2000. "Food Security, Farm Income and Trade Policy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yongzheng Yang & Weiming Tian (ed.), China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads, chapter 16, pages 263-276, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97810-8_16
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333978108_16
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