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29/01/2009 03:08:50
China-Grain production.
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Farmers on the high-value land instead are shifting from growing grain to high-value horticultural crops and flowers—some of which are making their way to Australia.
"Growing grain is a fundamentally low profit exercise, and is increasingly being carried out on low quality land with high vulnerability to drought," said the report’s lead author, Dr Elisabeth Simelton, last week.
The study analysed how social and economic factors are influencing the vulnerability of China’s crops to drought.
China currently claims to be 95pc self-sufficient in grain, although the United Nations reports that 20pc of Chinese are "food insecure".
But even a small shift in China’s export demand, caused by drought or socio-economic factors, could have an explosive effect on global food markets.
Dr Simelton said that if China boosts grain imports by only 5pc, those imports could swallow up all the world’s grain surpluses.
For the moment, however, China’s agricultural miracle appears to be alive and prospering.
In December, the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture organisation reported that China was on track for its fifth consecutive increase in crop production, with a 409 million tonne grain crop (rice, wheat and coarse grains) that will top the record set the previous year by nine million tonnes.
If the crop comes off as expected, it gives the country the capacity to export 4.5 million tonnes of grain, the FAO said.
However, other important fundamentals are at work on the nation’s future farming capacity.
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