{"id":1434448,"date":"2022-04-13T07:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434448"},"modified":"2022-04-13T07:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:44:46","slug":"farmers-face-production-crisis-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farmers-face-production-crisis-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Face Production Crisis in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffarmers-face-production-crisis-in-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434448&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><\/p>\n<h2>Authorities locked down the entire province of Jilin<\/h2>\n<div id=\"authorDate\">\n<p>\u00a0on&#038;nbsp12th April 2022 @ 2.00pm <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<figure title=\"Twenty-four million people have been affected by the lockdown, threatening the national food supply.\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Twenty-four million people have been affected by the lockdown, threatening the national food supply.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Videos from Jilin Province have shown police interrupting farmers working in the fields throughout China amid the COVID-19 lockdown as food shortages loom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Analysts have warned the crisis is beyond fallow fields, viable seeds and fertilizers are the real crisis Chinese farmers are facing.<\/p>\n<p>Jilin is a crucial processing and production region for the country\u2019s cereals.<\/p>\n<p>From 14 March, authorities locked down the entire province.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-four million people have been affected by the lockdown, threatening the national food supply.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure title=\"Videos showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police f\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/videos-showed-farmers-1.jpg\" alt=\"videos showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police f\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Videos showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police f<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/food-shortages-loom-chinese-farmers-face-trouble-amid-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zerohedge<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>On April 6, Jilin authorities claimed that more than 80 percent of seeding sheds covering 19,768 acres of land were ready to safeguard the spring plowing, and over 90 percent of corn and soybean seeds had been delivered.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9jaq_a9HqRE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> videos <\/a>showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police for violating lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/food-shortages-loom-as-chinese-farmers-face-trouble-amid-pandemic_4394693.html?utm_source=partner&#038;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times <\/a>managed to reach one local seed company to confirm the official line on the readiness of seeds.<\/p>\n<p>As the outlet reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The staff member said the company had been closed since the lockdown in early March. \u201cIn the pandemic, everyone is staying at home for the PCR test,\u201d she said, adding that she didn\u2019t know when business would resume.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Liu is a Chinese journalist who requested anonymity. He believes the lack of viable seeds is more severe than the restrictions during lockdown.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSeeds and fertilizer are the two main things for spring plowing. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But China\u2019s viable grain seeds come in at a high price.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<figure title=\"Over the years, Chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to bad seeds\">\n<div class=\"articleImage\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Over-the-years-Chinese-farmers.jpg\" alt=\"over the years  chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to bad seeds\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"creditNew\">\u00a9\u00a0press<\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption>Over the years, Chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to bad seeds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Liu says many Chinese farmers have become victims of the opaque procurement practice in China.<\/p>\n<p>Some even had near-zero harvests because of bad seeds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>He added the seeds are controlled by foreign entities, and they are very expensive.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe farmers no longer keep the good seeds from the previous harvest like in the old days,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>Liu said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cForeign companies control the technology of the seeds that come into China. Some domestic seed companies, completely out of touch with modern seed technology, even sold inferior seeds which they claimed as self-bred seeds. As a result, the farmers had a poor harvest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Liu blamed the many Chinese crop seed producers for the problems with the seeds.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to bad seeds.<\/p>\n<p>In one 2019 Chinese media report, a case of inferior seeds cost 205 farmers in Jiangxi Province around $726,000 loss, totaling 800 acres of fields.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, fake seeds led to no harvest in a 279-acre field involving 40 farmers in Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p>Chen Weijian is the chief editor of the Chinese human rights magazine Beijing Spring.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated the lockdowns would seriously affect the price and production of fertilizers and pesticides.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWithout pesticides and fertilizers, there\u2019s no productivity in the Chinese soil,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI believe that the food crisis in China will become more prominent in two or three years,\u201d<\/em> he added, referring to the massive loss of farming land over the years of government-led rural land expropriation.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/neonnettle.com\/news\/18800-china-accelerates-build-up-of-its-nuclear-arsenal-amid-tensions-with-the-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[READ MORE] China Accelerates Build-Up of Its Nuclear Arsenal amid Tensions with the US<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities locked down the entire province of Jilin \u00a0on&#038;nbsp12th April 2022 @ 2.00pm   \u00a9\u00a0press Twenty-four million people have been affected by the lockdown, threatening<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1888534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}