China goes from hungry nation to farm giant that feeds the world

[Kloitra]

China should give some food to India then.

India's problem is not lack of food, but distribution system. This is where China can help.

 

[Ryuzaki]

some indian friends think that india is superpower and needsnot to give ,and i think we china is not superpower,so....

India has enough food surplus,problem is shady storage in govt. godowns where food rots/eaten by rats etc

 

[Yizhi]

India's problem is not lack of food, but distribution system. This is where China can help.

Walmart can help too. that's how China's logistics started improving.

 

[Keel]

Walmart can help too. that's how China's logistics started improving.

Indians problems of food distribution is more complicated than Walmart China. They involve red-tapes, corruption and poor infrastructure

India has enough food surplus,problem is shady storage in govt. godowns where food rots/eaten by rats etc

You have sent a team to China learning our grain storage methods some years ago and you still have rotting-grains problems?

India turns to China for grain storage expertise - The Hindu

Credit to Chinese:

Father of Hybrid Rice -- 袁隆平 Yuan Longping

Yuan Longping, a Chinese agriculturalist, was born in Qianyang, Hunan Province in 1930. Professor Yuan graduated from Southwest Agriculture College in 1953 and has since devoted himself to agricultural education and research. He is currently an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Director General of China National Hybrid Rice Research and Development Center, Honorary President of the Hunan Academy of Agricultural Sciences in China and Vice-Chairman of Hunan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Professor Yuan was a pioneer in hybrid rice research and made remarkable achievements in this area, first developing hybrid rice in the world. The achievements of Yuan Longping greatly solved the food shortage, and provided as a solution the worldwide starvation. It is regarded as the fifth invention after China's Four Major Inventions, and is acclaimed as the Second Green Revolution. He was awarded with many international awards, such as Gold Medal Award for the Outstanding Inventor of the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization, Science Prize of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Rank Prize for Agronomy and Nutrition of the United Kingdom, Medal of Honor for Food Security and Sustainable Development of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, and Fukui International Koshihikari Rice Prize of Japan.

Yuan Longping started the research of indica hybrid in 1964. At the beginning, he discovered male-sterile rice. Then he brought forward h third hybriding paddy and carried out experiments on farmland. Yuan Longping made breakthrough in 1973. He was the first person to develop indica hybrid rice. The new technology was tested in many areas of South China in 1974 and 1975, and then extended to other areas. China became the first country that is capable of producing hybrid rice. Yuan Longping is the first scientist who successfully altered the self-pollinating characteristic of rice and realized large-scale farming of hybrid rice. This earned him the title "Father of Hybrid Rice".

His pioneering work in hybrid rice breeding and production techniques has revolutionized rice cultivation in China, establishing China's world leading position in hybrid rice research. From 1976 to 1987, the total cultivated area of the hybrid rice developed by Yuan reached 1.1 billion mu (15 mu=1 hectares), and increased rice yield by 100 billion kg. In 1979, the hybrid rice was transferred as China's first agro-technology patent to the United States. At present, the hybrid rice developed by Yuan is planted on the farmlands all over China, which played an important role in increasing China's grain production. It made possible the feeding of 22% of the world population on only 7% of the world's total arable land.

Father of Hybrid Rice -- Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kloitra]

Walmart can help too. that's how China's logistics started improving.

Walmart faces lot of resistance in India. People are yet to come out of that socialist/communist mindset that all MNCs are bad and should not dabble in fields where common man is involved. Walmart threatens millions of small shop owners. Although now the things are moving forward, and possibly India would see large scale investments in storage and transport.

 

[Beidou2020]

China too has a lot of food waste through poor storage. China has further room to improve in this area.

 

[Yizhi]

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every time i tried to be serious then i saw your emoticons....GJ.

Walmart faces lot of resistance in India. People are yet to come out of that socialist/communist ideology that all MNCs are bad and should not dabble in fields where common man is involved. Walmart threatens millions of small shop owners. Although now the things are moving forward, and possibly India would see large scale investments in storage and transport.

you guys are way more socialist/communist than China, economically speaking.

 

[Keel]

China too has a lot of food waste through poor storage.

Of course. You cant completely eradicate the problems 100%
But in all perspective we are still far better

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every time i tried to be serious then i saw your emoticons....GJ.

No offence intended

you guys are way more socialist/communist than China, economically speaking.

I dont think "socalist/communist" is the perfect term to describe India
It is in many regards a state of anarchy

Meanwhile Walmart China is one of the largest chain-stores in China

 

[Yizhi]

Of course. You cant completely eradicate the problems 100%
But in all perspective we are still far better

Northeast China used to have a huge rotten grain problem. they solved it by encouraging raising livestock and developing industries like bio fuel and food processing.

I dont think "socalist/communist" is the perfect term to describe India
It is in many regards a state of anarchy

Meanwhile Walmart China is one of the largest chain-stores in China

according to Chinese standards, yep, India is basically an anarchy. to be fair to Indians, some regions in India developed quite good, yet it all goes down when it comes to national level.

P.S. are you really in Greece?

 

[Keel]

Northeast China used to have a huge rotten grain problem. they solved it by encouraging raising livestock and developing industries like bio fuel and food processing.

Correct
Also one of the problems is we import a lot of farm products due to balance of trade and when the good harvest season comes, they become huge surpluses

according to Chinese standards, yep, India is basically an anarchy. to be fair to Indians, some regions in India developed quite good, yet it all goes down when it comes to national level.

It is also correct but I am tired of their national attitude if you know what I mean

P.S. are you really in Greece?

I wont answer personal questions on public forums. Sorry.

 

[xunzi]

Come on, you should know better if some rogue states leader like to corrupt foreign aid and accumulating power for themselves and not to mention they will not let any foreign aid worker to distributing aid directly to their people. Is no secret some of them even sell the food aid and bought advanced weapon to oppress their own people further

Stupid logic. So the people should suffer because you fear the food aid will all go to the Kim regime? What kind of stupidity is that?

 

[TaiShang]

Typical brainwashed Asian.

North Korea is better off than many South Asian countries in terms of living standard. All American created propaganda makes it seem like North Korea is the worst place to live. The worst place to live are countries where women are raped every 22 minutes and children starve to death.

American propaganda has brainwashed the masses that think the definition the US gives a country is what it should be called by the rest of the world.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey, 2 worst of the most heinous and repulsive regimes that are not just state-sponsors of global terror, but terrorist states themselves get free passes as they don't have an independent foreign policy and are happy to be r*ped by foreign powers.

You and your weak kind might be okay living under barbaric imperialism, but don't expect other people that have some pride and honour to kow-tow to American thuggery so easily.

Perfect response!

Besides, what is wrong with providing food aid to a neighbor ? Would it be better if China did the same as the US did in Iraq after first Iraq War and killed children under sanctions?

Also, US aid is not conditioned to high moral standards but to only a total subjugation to US geopolitical demands. For that reason, US still tolerates Turkey's despicable regime that exports terrorism all across the region (ME) and beyond.

 

[magic-007]

Of course. You cant completely eradicate the problems 100%
But in all perspective we are still far better

No offence intended

I dont think "socalist/communist" is the perfect term to describe India
It is in many regards a state of anarchy

Meanwhile Walmart China is one of the largest chain-stores in China

i think denmark is a socialist/communist country in my heart ,though china has been moving forward to socialist country, now china is not a socialist/communist country still .

 

[Keel]

i think Denmark is a socialist/communist country in my heart ,though China has been moving forward to socialist country, now China is not a socialist/communist country still .

Yes. Socialist Their government gives more free hands to the people
Most Scandinavian countries and Canada is getting close to this lot
You have to pay high taxes

 

[Beidou2020]

Perfect response!

Besides, what is wrong with providing food aid to a neighbor ? Would it be better if China did the same as the US did in Iraq after first Iraq War and killed children under sanctions?

Also, US aid is not conditioned to high moral standards but to only a total subjugation to US geopolitical demands. For that reason, US still tolerates Turkey's despicable regime that exports terrorism all across the region (ME) and beyond.

Quoted for truth!