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The Accuracy of China’s Grain Production Data: Evidence from Two County-level Case Studies

In: China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads

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  • Ziping Wu
  • Zhifang Wang

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Grain in China has been a topic of considerable interest throughout much of this century. In recent years there has been a series of international debates on whether China will be able to feed itself in the next century. Chinese government officials have felt compelled to argue the affirmative. To support their argument, they announced that farmland area in China is 40 per cent higher than reported in the China Statistical Yearbooks. The revised measure of farmland area of 2.095 billion mu is based on soil surveys in the period 1979–85 (Wu et al. 1992; Wu and Kirke 1993). The rationale for the announcement is that since China has a greater amount of farmland than had been reported, reported yield had been overstated and therefore agricultural potential is higher than previously thought.

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  • Ziping Wu & Zhifang Wang, 2000. "The Accuracy of China’s Grain Production Data: Evidence from Two County-level Case Studies," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Yongzheng Yang & Weiming Tian (ed.), China’s Agriculture at the Crossroads, chapter 11, pages 166-179, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97810-8_11
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333978108_11
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