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China Daily carries a warning<\/a> of serious and sustained decline in China’s grain production:<\/p>\n

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Tang Huajun, deputy dean of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), said a 5 to 10 percent crop loss is foreseeable by 2030 if climate change continues.<\/p>\n

“The impact of climate change, coupled with arable land loss and water shortages, will cause a bigger grain production fluctuation and pose a threat to reaching output targets,” Tang told China Daily.<\/p>\n

China, which recorded a grain output of 530.8 million tons in 2009, plans to increase output to 550 million tons by 2020 to ensure grain security for the world’s most populous country.<\/p>\n

However, China is likely to face an inadequate food supply by 2030 and its overall food production could fall by 23 percent by 2050, a previous report released by Greenpeace predicted.<\/p>\n

“The output of the country’s three main foods, rice, wheat and corn may suffer a 37 percent decline in the latter part of this century if the government fails to take effective measures to address the impact of climate change,” Tang said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Tang’s nomination of drought as the biggest challenge to Chinese farming echoes earlier findings by the CASS reported<\/a> in March: <\/p>\n

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According to statistics from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), the average annual crop losses due to drought in China were 75.7 billion yuan ($11.1 billion) from 1988 to 2004, while annual losses due to flood were 51.1 billion yuan.<\/p>\n

“Drought has become the greatest disaster facing China’s agriculture,” said Lin Erda, a professor with CAAS.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A recently featured<\/a> article<\/a> from Beijing Review celebrated China’s escape from feared shortages after a year beset by natural disasters, but expressed similar concern about long-term food security.<\/p>\n

See also: the 2008 Greenpeace report<\/a> referred to in both China Daily articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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