date:Feb 01, 2013
rity and farm product supply as leading priorities for 2013, with Beijing pledging to speed the transfer of rural land to promote large-scale commercial farming.
Pulling small plots of land into larger operations and introducing modern mechanical techniques would help boost productivity and is vital if China's farm sector is to meet soaring domestic demand.
But efforts to modernise the sector so far have struggled to gain traction because many farmers are suspicious about giving up their land,