Agriculture—China
Today Chinese agriculture sustains 22 percent of the world's population, with less than 8 percent of the world's arable land. The pattern of intensive agriculture varies in accordance with regional differences in environmental conditions: double or even triple cropping in the southern coastal regions; double cropping with a summer rice crop in the Chang (Yangtze) River basin of central and eastern China; winter wheat–summer crop cycles on the North China plains; single-crop, spring-grown cereals in the Northeast.
Chinese Agriculture in the Early Twentieth Century
Historically China has long been plagued by an unfavorable human-to-land ratio. As economic conditions worsened in the.....
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