The Imbalances Agriculture in China

Times have changed, and so has the family, the community and our environment. And these changes have impacted our lives and earth immeasurably. This is where the factor greed comes in to play, the need for more. This need for more called for extensive measures, measures like fertilizers, pesticides and equipment to work the ground and harvest the crops became necessity. Agriculture became a booming business that did not and still does not promote the well-being of the employee nor the individual let alone the family unit and community. Since 1950 an average farm size has doubled, but the number of laborers decreased substantially and the number of small local farmers has been cut in half. Farmers have been forced to become more efficient and there 's been a reliance on greater chemicals and technology, which has become very extensive and expensive. Sadly, what has been short term expansion has become a long-term threat (Trautmann, 2012). This greed driven increase has led to subtle damaging ramifications that most people are ignorant to. Their needs are being met as quality is being forsaken. Our environment is being squandered. Selfishness abounds.

The northwest has been under sand dunes since 1950 and has been mostly abandoned. The sand dunes keep growing larger and covering the crop land. The farmers are having to drill wells to expand their harvests and water tables in the North China Plain are the water sources for most of the country's wheat and corn.

Agriculture is the second most leading cause of pollution (jaiswal). With that much pollution one may wonder how it is happening. One may also wonder what america can do to fix agricultural pollution. America has put our land and farmers into some very questionable situations with questionable practices.

During the 1960s, there was a “sharp increase” in crop production which came to be known as the Green Revolution. This increase in crop yields was due to the advancements in plant breeding and the use of modern agricultural techniques. The Green Revolution intended to increase the food supply in order to reduce the risk of famine (intended outcome 1), and with the surplus they were able to export the excess (intended outcome 2). However, there were also some unintended outcomes. Two of these were salinization, and the artificial fertilizers that were used harmed the

American agriculture is arguably the strongest and best industry we have to offer. Farmers are the world’s foremost land and water conservationists. There is a lot of hype around the agricultural world these days: from GMO’s to animal welfare and land ethics issues, but what the general public does not understand is farmers are not out to ruin the earth. They make 99.9% of their income off the earth, and a good portion of the farmers now days make most of their income in a few short months.

Since then it has developed legal codes in the areas of criminal, civil, administrative, and commercial law. The legal system is not independent of the government, however, a problem that is especially acute on the local level, where corrupt officials manipulate the process to protect themselves and limit citizens' rights.Agriculture is by far the leading occupation, involving almost 50% of the population, although extensive rough, high terrain and large arid areas—especially in the west and north—limit cultivation to only about 15% of the land surface. Since the late 1970s, China has decollectivized agriculture, yielding tremendous gains in production. Even with these improvements, agriculture accounts for only 12% of the nation's GDP. Despite initial gains in farmers' incomes in the early 1980s, taxes and fees have increasingly made farming an unprofitable occupation, and because the state owns all land, farmers have at times been easily evicted when croplands are sought by developers. Additional land reforms adopted in 2008 allow farmers to transfer land use

The family farm, an absolute necessity to our economy and way of life, is quickly disappearing, and the world could care less. The family farm is our nation’s source of food, clothing, medicine, shelter, and companionship. According to the Association of Science - Technology Centers the agriculture industry will have to increase by 70% by 2050 to be able to continue feeding the world. Due to these current trends and trade talks with China, farmers are trading their pitchforks for briefcases because they simply cannot afford to keep their families afloat. Without the family farm where will we find these vital nutrients? The family farm is viewed as something so unimportant that the nation feels they can turn a blind eye and the farm will be

China is one of the largest countries on earth, it is four times the size of the United States. In recent years China has made headlines in becoming a global powerhouse. However, China was not always a vibrant country due to domestic problems that caused little to no economic growth for a period. Under the leadership of Mao, the focus was to increase the food supply to feed China’s growing population. The Mao administration redistributed farm land to the peasants where they did not have to pay any rent. This meant that the peasants could invest extra profit to help better the farming soil. Mao would buy the crops from the peasants for a low price and then sell them to outside for a high price. The profit Mao made would be put back into the economy to stimulate growth. Over time the peasants began to consume more food resulting in less food for the

The future of America is on the farm. Imagine a world without food. Without restaurants, grocery stores, or drugstores. Imagine kids laying in the middle of the road because they have gone days, even weeks without eating anything. Visualize waking up every day and having to go out and search for food, because nothing is available anywhere. Picture living without your morning coffee or your after school snack. This is probably very hard for most people to imagine. Everything that we wear, eat or consume is all thanks to agriculture. That is why people need to start looking into the future and realize that technology, food demand increasing, organic food and GMOs are the future of agriculture.

The Qing dynasty ended in 1912 with a revolution; however, the dynasty had been in decline for more than a century before it fell. Corruption within the empire, population growth combined with food shortages, and the social unrest between the ethnic majority Han and the ruling Machu all contributed to the Qing dynasty’s downfall. Yet despite all of these internal issues, it was external pressures that caused the eventual collapse of Qing society. Foreign imperialism highlighted China’s backwardness to its own citizens and, and also heightened the already existing conflicts within China itself. It directly challenged the cultural nexus of power, which held China together for hundreds of years. This system combined

Site visits were conducted to Gansu and Guangdong province and the main focus of these two visits were to basically witness and analyze development in China from two perspectives i.e. from a well developed province like Guangdong and a poor province like Gansu.

Agrochemicals and pesticides present significant part of the agricultural sector. Agro-industry plays an important role in the country economy.

Currently , the development of renewable energy resources , reduce consumption of fossil energy , environmental protection and mitigation of global warming has become a common sense of every country in the world. Despite China as a developing country and its historically low emissions, China faces international pressure to control its carbon emissions, which China is already the world 's largest carbon emitter, sharing 29% of global carbon emission in 2013 (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, 2014). Moreover, the demand and consumption is relatively high in the next decades (BP, 2015). China is a large agricultural country, around half of the population live in rural areas.

Within Russia, there are several unmet needs across the nation. One potentially viable product that our organization can introduce is fertilizer for farmers. Fertilizer is a product that may vary from area to area, but contains the necessary nutrients that are needed to add to local soils for the growth of specific agricultural products. This is a significant need within Russia, as the agricultural industry has been falling behind in recent years. It seems that the nation has difficulty producing enough agricultural product to support its needs from year to year. Additionally, farmers do not often use fertilizers to help their crops, which in turn prevents increased productivity. If farmers were educated on the importance of fertilizing

Since the Opening-up policy and economic reform from 1978, China has been in great demand of high level intellectuals to build the country, and has witnessed a modest expansion in higher education student admission and a steady increase in set-up of higher educational institutions. However, with the rapid development of China’s economy and society, the Chinese government had made a policy in 1999 to reform its higher education systems with two key aims, expanding higher education and building world class universities. Thereafter, the number of student intake in higher education has experienced a blow-out increase, from 1.1 million in 1998 to 6.75 million in 2011, up six times in enrollment. Furthermore, there has been a dramatic increase in establishment of new educational institutions, a large number of secondary and private colleges included. However, the number of secondary vocational schools has seen a significant decline since 1999. According to Zhang and Sheng (2008)