date:Jun 09, 2013
but with such a poor record of ensuring a safe food supply, that goal has, so far, been unattainable.
Per Reuters:
The ruling Communist Party has long staked its legitimacy on its ability to guarantee domestic staple food supplies, and has pledged to be at least 95 percent self-sufficient even as demand increases and the fastest and biggest urbanization process in history swallows up arable land.
That has led to a drive for quantity rather than quality - securing bumper harvests even from la