date:Dec 27, 2013
p from 18.1 percent to 32.5 percent between national agricultural censuses in 1996 and 2006. If the current trend continues, the number may break through 50 percent by 2016, when the third census is expected to be carried out.
Just who will meet the challenge of agricultural modernization and feed the Chinese people is a real problem, said Liu Jun, an agriculturalist at Southwest University of Political Science and Law.
To ensure the food supply, the first problem to be solved is how to breed