Food for One Billion: China's Agriculture Since 1949
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agricultural investment analysis
Agricultural Mechanization
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Central Agricultural Experiment Station
China's Agricultural Development
China's Agriculture
China's Total Land Area
Chinese agricultural policies
Chinese Communist Party
collective farming
collective farming systems
Cultural Revolution Decade
Dagang Oilfields
Diesel Fuel
Dominant Cropping Pattern
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extreme leftist policies
financing agricultural modernization in China
Gross Weight
Growing Season Ranges
Hairy Vetch
labor-intensive agricultural technology
labor-intensive technology
Large Scale Livestock Production
Mao Zedong
North China Plain
Northeast China Plain
Pacific Air Mass
Public Accumulation Funds
Qinghai Tibet Plateau
Rural Collective Enterprises
rural development policy
rural party cadre influence
Semiarid Loess Plateau
state resource allocation
West Germany
Yellow Wheat Rust
Yunnan Guizhou Plateau
Product details
- ISBN 9780367018405
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 146 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines the agricultural policies and programs adopted by the Chinese leadership since 1949 and analyzes the role of agriculture in China's changing development strategies. Dr. Hsu gives particular attention to the measures intended to improve agricultural technology and to the sources of funds for agricultural investment. He concludes that, although the collective system has been effective in mobilizing China's rural resources for agricultural development and in promoting progress in labor-intensive agricultural technology, periodic extreme leftist policies and interference by rural party cadres have caused various kinds of inefficiency, offsetting the advantages gained from collective farming. This is the first book to systematically analyze the ways in which China's agricultural development is being financed. By critically examining the level and nature of state resources allocated to agriculture, the author challenges the view that China has pursued an agriculture-first strategy of economic development since the early 1960s.
