Friday, 20 June 2008

In modern China, farmers cash in on their land

HAINING, China: Tales of protests by angry peasants whose land has been seized for a pittance by unscrupulous officials are commonplace in China.
But even as concern grows about the disappearance of arable land to feed 1.3 billion people, less noticed is the eagerness of other farmers, often in richer parts of China, to cash in their land and say goodbye to back-breaking toil in the fields.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/17/business/yuan.php







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