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Chinese to cut commodity production, focus on specialty crops
China plans to reduce acreages of cotton and sugar crops in 2000 as
a way to encourage farmers to grow more quality and specialty crops,
according to a Reuters report. The Ministry of Agriculture set its
2000 grain production at 490 million tons and cotton production at 3.2
million tons. Minister of Agriculture Chen Yaobang said the reductions
are part of an agriculture restructuring plan that is designed help
lift millions of farmers out of poverty by next year. "The production
of farm products should meet the demand of the market," Chen said.
"Traditional farming methods which focus only on quantity should be
abandoned."
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