China signals shift from self-sufficiency in food crops

In its closely watched “number one document” on rural policy, the Chinese government omitted any mention of “basic self-sufficiency” in food crops, moving away from expensive subsidies that created the world’s largest stockpiles of wheat, corn and rice, said Reuters. The deputy head of the Communist Party’s rural policy group told reporters the focus is… » Read More

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