China to push development of high-yield crops, mechanise to raise food supply

Genetically modified soy and corn seedlings have recently received Chinese approval for production and sale, opening the door for this year’s business farming of GM crops.

According to the policy, it may speed up plant research and the choice, breeding, and advertising of high-quality varieties that are desperately needed for planting.

China, whose 1.4 billion-person population is declining, even stated in the legislation that it will “focus on solving the problem of who will farm the land.”

As young people move to the city, the farming community in the second-largest sector of the world has been aging, raising worries about a labor shortage.

The scheme outlined the objective of creating a contemporary agricultural management program with smallholder farmers at its base.

By relaunching the” Ten Million Project,” which President Xi Jinping, who was then the government of Zhejiang province, started in 2003, it laid out plans to develop and modernize the land and cultivation methods.

In a observe, the Sino-German Agricultural Centre stated that the project aims to “renovate entire villages and connect several villages into system encompassing fields, facilities, and industry chains.”

The policy report also stated that it would increase wheat’s required purchase price, increase planting subsidies and insurance, and strengthen Belt and Road Initiative agricultural cooperation. &nbsp,