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Although China's agricultural output is the largest in the world, only 10% of its total land area can be cultivated. China's arable land, which represents 10% of the total arable land in the world, supports over 20% of the world's population. [26]
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.
"Land reform in rural China since the mid-1980s". Land Reform. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Crook, Isabel; Crook, David (1979). Ten Mile Inn: Mass Movement in a Chinese Village. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-41178-1. DeMare, Brian James (2019). Land Wars: The Story of China's Agrarian Revolution. Palo Alto, CA ...
Rice terraces in Yuanyang County, Yunnan, China. Although China's agricultural output is the largest in the world, only about 15% of its total land area can be cultivated. About 75% of the cultivated area is used for food crops. Rice is China's most important crop, raised on about 25% of the cultivated area.
With limited land and water, China will have to sharply increase farming productivity through technology, including genetically modified crops, and expand area under cultivation to meet Beijing's ...
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 :
The traditional units of agricultural land area are the mau or mou (Cantonese for mu, a unit used throughout China) and the local dau chung (斗種). Notionally the two units are defined differently, with the dau chung being the amount of land which could be planted by one dau ( 斗 ) of rice; in practice the area of one dau chung is roughly ...
The vast majority of China's cultivated land lies in eastern China.Nearly all of the arable land, totaling 122 million hectares or 13% of the country, is cultivated. [5] To ensure adequate food production, the government has identified a minimum threshold or “redline” of 120 million hectares of cultivated land. [6]