China's agricultural development; challenges and prospects.0754646963 China's agricultural development; challenges and prospects. Ed. by Xiao-yuan Dong et al. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2006 311 pages $124.95 Hardcover The Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. economy series HD2097 Whether China will be able to continue its rapid industrial development depends largely on whether the 800 million of its people in agriculture and rural economies can keep pace. Low productivity and slow growth of rural income indicate the system has significant challenges and risks. The 16 papers here compare China to other high-performing Asian economies, offer strategic and political ideas on boosting rural development, analyze current reforms, link agriculture to the industrial state, assess the impact of the World Trade Organization, and take lessons from Taiwan Taiwan (tī`wän`), Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (2005 est. pop. 22,894,000), 13,885 sq mi (35,961 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, separated from the mainland of S China by the 100-mi-wide (161-km) Taiwan . Other papers cover new measures to improve productivity, country-level production efficiencies, the impact of land fragmentation (1) Storing data in non-contiguous areas on disk. As files are updated, new data are stored in available free space, which may not be contiguous. Fragmented files cause extra head movement, slowing disk accesses. A defragger program is used to rewrite and reorder all the files. on rice production, future prospects for grain and means of handling peak demand for it, income risk and acreage in terms of soybeans and corn, commercial crops and grain crops, farmers' insurance, and price behavior in China's wheat futures Noun 1. wheat future - wheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date future - bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date market. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , OR) |
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