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Agriculture in China

Tell me about agriculture in your country.
You should say: how important agriculture is in your country
whether it is difficult to be a farmer what the main agricultural products are in your country
and explain what people think about the agricultural world in your country.

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  Millions of fanners in China = number 1 in fann output
  
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  Difficult life for famers
  
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  Townships: fanners share the land
  
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  A lot of fanners move to the city
  
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  Innovations in the field: organic food + production techniques
  

Agriculture plays an important role in the Chinese economy. I read somewhere that there were some 300 million fanners in China! That's a huge number and that is why China is ranked number 1 in the world for farm output (production). Chinese fanners mostly produce rice, wheat, potatoes, peanuts, tea and cotton.
Although there are many fanners all around the country, most of them have a difficult life and they struggle to make money. The problem is that they don't have so much land to cultivate. In the mountains, farmers cannot use machinery to work the fields. They must use a cow or buffalo to plough the land. It's very labor-intensive. In addition, the weather can have some dramatic consequences for farm productions.
Most famers work together. They create their own little groups made up of different families, and they all farm the land together. Most plots are organized into community areas (we call
"townships").
As China continues to industrialize, big sections of agricultural land are converted into industrial land. Fanners lose their farms and they very often migrate to the city to become factory workers. There is a big gap between urban and rural lifestyles and most young people don't want to stay in the countryside. They believe they could have a better future in the city.
However, there have also been some recent innovations in Chinese agriculture, such as the development of organic agriculture. Farmers in some areas understand that they must organize crop rotation (to allow the earth to produce more) and use compost and biological pest control in order to be more successful. This is beneficial in terms of food safety and export opportunities.
Vocabulary
Several regions are losing their biodiversity as a variety of plant and animal habitats (= Homes) are destroyed to make way for human dwellings. The loss of these plant and animal species presents us with an important ecological (= environmental) challenge: what can we do to. stop the destruction and to safeguard some of the world's most important natural resources?
(Source: World Link series)

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