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Agriculture: Food security fears
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-04-06 14:38
China is continuing to lose vast areas of arable land to construction,
leading to concerns for the grain security of the world's most populous
nation.
Rapid economic development saw the area of farmland drop to
122 million hectares last year -- 361,600 hectares down from 2004.
Per capita arable land was 1.4 mu, or 0.093 hectares, in October last year,
down from 0.094 hectares a year earlier, Wednesday's China Youth Daily
reported.
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