From Ap, via Yahoo! News:
China has more than enough grain reserves to cover its immediate needs, but farmers need more help if the country is to ensure future food supplies, officials said Sunday.
The communist government has long viewed food self-sufficiency as a matter of national security and worries about feeding its population of 1.3 billion people.
“Judging from current figures, I think that in the near future there won’t be any problem in the food supply,” Duan Yingbi, deputy director of the Chinese Cabinet’s Central Leading Group for Rural Work, told reporters during the annual meeting of China’s parliament, which has made boosting support for farmers a priority.
