这是在我微信群中的讨论的一部分。我想和大家分享一下。
Basically it says "the foundation of a nation lies in the people; that of the people in the food, and the food in crops".
You should remember that I have lamented many times (too) how our farmland had been (and in many areas still is) left untilled and unfarmed and unattended for so long. Things have come to a pretty pass when you realize the majority of farmers have to buy their share of rice, let another other foods. This is definitely not right. Even a man on the bottom of our social totom pole like me knows this only too well.
It turns out that, ironically, it takes a pandemic like the COVID19 for our top leaders to realize this practice is unsustainable, that the people may be in for a big shock for the coming shortage of food nationwide, while the memory of famine around the 50s and 60s in our country still haunts many old folks in the country. By far the entire population has survived on food imports from other countries, but the pandemic is so bad it doesn't take an anthropologist to realizethat the inflow of foods from foreign countries may come to an end anytime, or the price of it may roar to stratosphere like never seen before.
to be continued
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本帖隐藏的内容Because the entire nation has been offguard against the possible inadequacies in food supply, many farmers have turned to growing not crops, but more commercially promising plants such as horticultural plants, trees, and in the first flush of such trend many farmers really made a bundle out of the "preening it up" movement in many cities, towns and even villages. Soon more farmers followed suit. And the prices of such plants went down, in fact so low many farmers just left their land full of aesthetic trees to languish in the field.
The new regulation is, predictably, that farmers should tear down whatever they have grown that is not food and rework the field and grow food again, particularly, rice. For compensation of their losses, an acre of non-rice plants will be compensated for around 5,000 yuan (ballpark figure, heard on the grapevine), and there's no room for argument.
Personally I believe it's long overdue, and it's definitely the right decision.
Pan.
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发表于 2021-8-22 09:13:51
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