Wang Guanghua, vice-minister of national resources, told the briefing China needed to "adhere to the strictest farmland protection system" over the next decade to meet its targets. He also said much of China's territory remained idle or was used inefficiently. China's scarce land has been under increasing pressure as a result of rapid urbanisation and growing demands of its industrial and agricultural economy.
We have a plan for your needs. Standard users can export data in a easy to use web interface or using an excel add-in. API users can feed a custom application. White label accounts can distribute our data. The majority of land transfers happen between farmers. For example, migrant farmers may let friends or relatives farm their land. These kinds of transfers often rely on informal agreements, and usually involve zero or very low payments.
Although not land rental per se, these informal transfers lay the ground for the future development of the rental market by consolidating small plots and making them attractive to large-scale farms.
Currently, land transfers to firms represent An important factor is that property rights of rural land are insecure and unclear. This is manifested in inaccurate land borders and sizes, incomplete land use right certificates, and limited HRS tenure see first text box. The Chinese government just extended HRS tenure to , and is in the process of issuing land use right certificates with more accurate land position and size information.
This effort is expected to boost the land rental market in the future. Private land ownership is banned in China. The tenure of contract rights was 15 years in , renewed for 30 years in , and again by 30 years i.
The percentage of urban population in China increased from 19 percent in to 57 percent in China Statistical Year Book , and is continuing its upward trend.
Despite significant demand for farmland acres to be converted for urban development, China has successfully maintained the quantity of its arable land in recent years China Agricultural Development Report This is due to policies that compensate arable land lost to development by creating arable land somewhere else, often by converting farmhouses to arable land. The fact that returning rural construction land to cropland can generate valuable permits for urban development somewhere else creates additional opportunity cost for facilities for animal production.
This opportunity cost is first felt by municipal governments who depend on selling development rights for revenue. International UAE. Saudi Arabia. US Elections World News. With rising population and declining arable land, China may be staring at a major food crisis. Dipanjan Roy Chaudhury. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. Reuters China estimates that by , when its population is expected to reach 1.
New Delhi: China faces a daunting task to feed 22 per cent of the world population with only 07 per cent of the global arable land. There are million acres of arable land, of which roughly 37 million acres are non cultivable. Since , China lost one fifth of its arable land to urbanisation and industrialisation and currently only about 10 to 15 per cent of the land is left good for agriculture compared to 1 percent in Saudi Arabia, 50 percent in India, 20 percent in the United States, and 32 percent in France.
There is , square kilometres of irrigated land in China and about 40 per cent of China's crop land is irrigated.
0コメント