Posted on 05/09/2008 9:30:18 PM PDT by blam
China looks abroad to grow its own food
By Richard Spencer
Last Updated: 2:31AM BST 10/05/2008
Chinese farming companies may be backed by the government to buy and lease tracts of land in Africa and Latin America to grow crops to feed its 1.3 billion people.
A proposal before the state council, or cabinet, proposes extending a business strategy known as the "go-out policy" to farmland.
As food prices rise, the Chinese government is anxious about food security, though it may not be willing to risk the accusation of colonialism that such a move would attract.
The country has long tried to be self-sufficient despite having only eight per cent of the world's tillable farmland to feed more than a fifth of its population.
The result is often ruinous to the environment and agricultural efficiency, but the government is increasing rather than reducing protectionist measures. Using land in Africa as a solution is already under way.
Companies are buying and leasing land across Africa, sending out Chinese labourers and producing crops for sale on the world market – and back home.
Xie Guoli, a senior agriculture ministry official, said that it was government policy to encourage business to "go out" but planners were still discussing whether it was in China's best interests for farming companies to be among them.
That is because China has shit on their own property!
China's current base of government controlled collectivist farms can't raise enough food to supply their population.
Solution...create new collectivist farms in other authoritarian Third World countries.
I'd suggest trying market economics, private finance, property rights, contract law, etc., but I've heard China is going to dominate the 21st Century, so they don't need my advice.
Gee, sounds like free market democracy to me … nah, won’t work. ;-)
It’s not just what you’re hearing- it’s happening right before our eyes. Unless there is something many of us are missing to see, these people are indeed on the ascendency with their oppresive system.
China will come to the USA to grow its food. Right smack up the gut from Panama thru Mexico and up thru Texas.
No country can invade us from east to west or vice versa. But fron south to north they can.
BTW, They own the canal. I wonder whats in all those warehouses they have on each end.
Zimbabwe is a prime target and Mugabe’s thuggery and farm confiscations have paved the way.
Yup. But the Chinese won't tolerate Mugabe's 'veterans's' running rampant.
Invade hell our politicians under the guise of the globalist cult will sell us cheaply. I can see Kudlow on CNBC now praising President Obama for selling Nebraska and its inhabitants on the “free market.”
Aint that the truth!
It will be left up to people like you and I to defend freedom.
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