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China Corn Futures at Record High Due to Adverse Factors

May 6, 2022
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China’s grain prices have risen sharply in a short time due to adverse international and domestic factors. The corn futures reached a record high for two consecutive trading days at the end of April. Then on May 2, prices swelled to $487 a ton enabling a 13 percent price increase in China’s corn futures from…

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Chinese Peasants Ordered to Turn Forests Into Grain Fields as Threat of Food Crisis Looms

March 20, 2022
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A video circulated on China’s social media showed that local authorities in Weifang, Shandong Province, ordered peasants to “remove trees” to make the land available for grain production. This comes as many in China fear food shortages will soon become a serious problem. In the video, a peasant, who recorded it as a selfie, said,…

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Xi Jinping Fears Food Shortage Amid Official Media Boasting ‘Good Harvests for 18 Years’

December 20, 2021
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Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping expressed concern about a food crisis at a recent meeting, despite the official media reporting 18 consecutive years of good harvests in China. Xi noted that “arable land is still decreasing,” according to official media CPC News on Dec. 12, citing Xi’s speech at a Dec. 8 economic…

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