Feeding a country with a population
of 1.3 billion or more people is an extreme task, even in the best circumstances.
Securing as much as necessary food for the people will be even difficult for
China in years ahead due to the number of factors, that includes the increased
competition on the growing global population, reduction of country’s
agricultural work force as thousands and even millions of the Chinese farmers started
to flock in cities, and changing diets of population of the Chinese people becomes
affluent.
So to state the situation worst,
the food quantity was not just the main problem in China– the food quality has
become a big issue. Looking back in the past five years, the Chinese consumers had
to contend with everything from the tainted milk up to the expired meat,
raising questions about the food in China was really safe for human
consumption.
The quantity and the quality of the
food in China and its supply is the country’s most pressing problems, it presents
as the biggest profit—making opportunities for its companies and investors. The
increasing demand of food in China is not just creating real opportunities in
China, but it is putting a floor under global prices of all agricultural
products, that will be benefiting everyone from the farmers in US Midwest up to
the poultry producers in the country of Thailand, whether or not that they will
sell their products to China.
As of today the estimated global
population of 7.0 billion people that is growing at one percent per annum and projected
to reach at 9.0 billion by the year 2042.
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