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Impact of Globalization on
Farming
China’s Entry into WTO
• Challenges• custom duties on foreign agricultural
products would decrease• prices of imported agricultural product
would decrease• quality of imported agricultural
products may be better, and so are more competitive
• the local farmers may lose their jobs.
What can we do?• Lesson from Mexico• Establish plantations • Employment small farmers as worker• Grow more cash crop / market-oriented• Export-oriented• Regional specialization• e.g. Apple enterprise in ShannXi and Shan
dong• e.g. in Mengniu Nei Mongol
What can we do?
• agriculture entrepreneurialsation / (commercial farming)
• Development of township business to provide employment opportunities
• Government aid in technology, credit system
• Improvement in education and transportation
China’s Entry into WTO
• Opportunities• bring in more foreign capital to invest in a
griculture• speeding up the pace of agriculture entrep
reneurialsation• improving crops and agricultural producti
on technology• enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese
agricultural products.
China’s Entry into WTOChina’s Entry into WTO
• Opportunities• promoting agricultural and rural
reforms• benefiting the development of
township business and provide job opportunities
• improving Chinese legal system, providing protection for peasants
Fair Trade in AgricultureFair Trade in AgricultureFair Trade in AgricultureFair Trade in Agriculture
• http://www.maketradefair.org.hk/trad/index.html
New Hopes for New Life
Migrant Workers
• Rush into cities in the eastern part of China to seek for employment
• Rural areas of the Western and Central China
• Most of them come from the Sichuan province
Farmers leave their home
• Seek for employment opportunities• Loss their job• Without farmland• Under production responsibility system• Low price of farming products• Under free market• Natural hazards• Rural poverty
Farmers leave their home
• Greater gap between urban and rural under open door policy
• According the "Statistical Communique 2001" released by the National Bureau of Statistic of China, the annual per capita disposable income of urban households was RMB$6,860 in 2001, with a real increase of 8.5 percent. The per capita net income of rural households was RMB$2,253.
Migrant Workers
• Guangdong (Pearl River Delta), Shanghai (Chang Jiang Delta), Fujian, and Beijing to look for jobs.
• According to official estimation, half of the migrant workers in the whole country now concentrate in the Pearl River Delta
• World factory / foreign investment
Problems• Urban problems• They sacrificed their family, and health • exploited by the employers • Social problems• industrial accidents • the urban residents hold biased views
to these migrant workers, seeing them as causes of corruption and heavy burdens to the urban social system
• Pressure on transport during new year
China’s entry into WTO • Competition of imported farming product
s• Further drop in the price of agricultural pr
oducts• agriculture entrepreneurialsation • More farmers lose their job• Decline of rural economy• Greater gap between urban and rural• More migrant workers