Comments by "Canice Tang" (@canicetang8837) on "Amid a global food crisis, China’s socialist economy must depend on agricultural imports" video.

  1. Excellent points. Also another tell-tale sign with the inefficiency of the PRC agriculture also have two specific reasons which was covered by Sino-Insider from Taiwan. From Lei's earlier explanation of the land being owned by the State and the farmers in the rural areas are effectively workers rather than landowners to limit any incentives to grow and expand their farms. With lack of growth in terms of financial means. Compared to the US, Europe and other Democratic nations where farmer actually owns the land. This meant: 1. Lack of capital to acquire modern farming equipment to make the agriculture easier and with bigger volumes from more land available. Western farming generally have tens and hundreds of acres to grow their crops at industrial scale. This is another reason why the PRC farming is extremely inefficient. Besides that, many of the best agricultural lands near the urban areas had been gutted for industrial and residential expansion since the globalization of 1980s. Therefore this led direct to: 2. The quality of the best lands had been significantly decreased. According to Sino-Insider's report, the decrease of the overall quantity of land available for agriculture in the PRC was not as significant as predicted. However, when the best lands for farming were converted to industrial and residential purposes in nearby urban areas. Most of the rural areas were left to grow food. However, most of those farmlands are of low-yield quality. Therefore, not surprisingly, their yield are also very average to poor as a result. Hence, this led to the use of the poisonous chemicals to boost the yield quality artificially. Since the Rule of Law Dictatorship system for the CCP never accounts for the responsibility and accountability for the farmers to be clear and transparent of not using harmful chemicals to grow their food. Also with hardly any monitoring from their department responsible for food safety. Many of these inferior and poisonous food are feeding the PRC public. Therefore, individual farmers and Pro-CCP food production companies alike are using short-cuts to grow their food and livestock. The tainted infant formula scandal by Sanlu, a CCP-sponsored dairy company , along with many other poisonous foods leading the permanent health problems and even death to some of the consumers. These are the consequences of the CCP's awful decisions with their inefficiency plus lack of good quality lands for agriculture. Plus their Rule by Law system lacking any consumer protections and other features for public safety when it comes to quality standards of the PRC's food production. This problem would never go away and only gets worse in the near future.
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