• Bring back the landlords: China to encourage farms to consolidate into larger ones.
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[img]http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full-width/images/print-edition/20140503_CNP001_0.jpg[/img] [quote]Since January last year the term “family farm” has come into vogue in the party’s vocabulary. It refers not to the myriad tiny plots, each farmed by a single family, that are characteristic of the Chinese countryside; but to much larger-scale operations of a kind more familiar elsewhere, such as Europe or America. The trigger for this was the term’s use in a Communist Party directive known as “document number one”, the name traditionally given to the party’s new-year policy pronouncement on rural issues. It said the consolidation of household plots into family farms should be given “encouragement and support”. Many ordinary Chinese see the irony of party officials rushing to help an emerging class of big-scale private farmers. “He’s a little landlord,” quips a Shijiazhuang resident on seeing the expanse of ripening wheat around the farmer’s office. “He’ll be struggled against”, he jokes, alluding to the fate of landlords when Mao took over in 1949. Some 2 million of them were killed.[/quote] [url]http://www.economist.com/news/china/21601563-officials-want-family-run-farms-grow-much-bigger-america-new-model-bring-back[/url] More food is always needed, and one way to get it is to consolidate tiny farms and do everything on a massive scale.
Landlords? Like men of fancy manor houses and bloodsports? Sounds like fun!
Fucking Kulaks.
[quote]“He’ll be struggled against”, he jokes, alluding to the fate of landlords when Mao took over in 1949. [B]Some 2 million of them were killed.[/B][/quote] Thats quite the sense of humor
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