CHINA FOOD RESEARCH BOSS WARNS OF LABOUR SHORTAGE IN CHINESE PIGMEAT SECTOR
July 1st, 2013
CHINA faces some key policy crossroads in the coming decade which will ultimately decide the scale of its meat production and imports, according to a leading agronomist in Beijing. Policy makers are expected to announce reforms to China’s Soviet-era residency card system in October, which could allow millions of rural families to become urban residents, Dr Kevin Chen, head of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in China said today (Tuesday July 16). This, he believes, would lead to a new wave of small-scale pig farmers exiting the sector, ...
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