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Hong Kong ! Before we entered China we were briefed by the Senior Economist
from Rabobank Hong Kong. Because China and India are positioned similarly in
terms of total population and agricultural potential, the defining difference
is the investment in infrastructure. On a farming level infrastructure is
important also, reserves storage and capital invested in water facilities are
key. The government allocation in the four modes of transport road, rail, sea
and air are paramount for not only market access but also for distribution
speed especially for highly perishable products in agriculture. The newer
technologies that are issues for developing countries are refrigeration and
internet.
China is especially dependant on the internet for knowledge and
information transfer, they seem to be in a position that the corporates have
imitated the infrastructure of the western world well in agriculture with brand
new state of art high tech dairies, but no skilled management available to run
these facilities and no way of encouraging westerners to the lifestyles, they
are now in a position where they need to train their population. In the county
of China there is limited refrigeration so the produce is localised and is
never marketed far from the point of production. This is why they have limited
export and consume most of their produce domestically, we visited a cashmere
textile company that had 100 thousand camels and 1.5 million goats to shear
anaully from this there are no exports. That's what 1.4 billion people will do.
For perspective this is the equivalent of 58 people for every 1 person in
Australia on the same land mass.
In
terms of labour the Chinese farmers are considered peasants. They harvest their
crop for money to buy their own food. Different provinces are vary however the
government own the land and lease it to the farmers, they are entitled to 1
mieu each and there are 16 mieu to a hectare. What you see in China are people
in the fields everywhere impending manual labour from spraying to weeding it is
all done on foot by hand, we saw whole fields cultivated by shovel and
irrigation channels carved out by spades.
China is especially dependant on the internet for knowledge and
information transfer, they seem to be in a position that the corporates have
imitated the infrastructure of the western world well in agriculture with brand
new state of art high tech dairies, but no skilled management available to run
these facilities and no way of encouraging westerners to the lifestyles, they
are now in a position where they need to train their population. In the county
of China there is limited refrigeration so the produce is localised and is
never marketed far from the point of production. This is why they have limited
export and consume most of their produce domestically, we visited a cashmere
textile company that had 100 thousand camels and 1.5 million goats to shear
anaully from this there are no exports. That's what 1.4 billion people will do.
For perspective this is the equivalent of 58 people for every 1 person in
Australia on the same land mass.
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