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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (17): 206-210.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.2011-3827

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Cultivated land deficit 60 million hm2——China’s food crisis and Counter-measures

  

  • Received:2011-12-19 Revised:2012-04-12 Online:2012-06-15 Published:2012-06-15

Abstract:

No one thinks that there are any trouble on food security in China so far. Some relevant officials departments and agricultural specialists have been repeatedly declaring that China has been keeping sufficient in food and keeping the redline of ‘self-supply rate no less than 95%’. But our research indicates that the redline of food security has fallen long ago. The food self-supply rate in 2010 was even less than 65% and all the imported food needs 59.48 million hm2 (0.9 billion Mu) cultivated land to produce. Therefore, cultivated land deficit has been up to 0.9 billion Mu, exceeding all the cultivated land in 13 provinces of ‘Three-North’ area. It gives us a start! It is time to reconsider the thesis of the book 《Who will feed China》