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China’s largest agro enterprise plans to buy or lease 200.000 hectares world wide
China’s largest agricultural enterprise, Heilongjiang Beidahuang Nongken Group, will acquire or lease 200,000 hectares of cropland in countries including Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Russia, The Philippines, Australia and Zimbabwe, the official People’s Daily newspaper said. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI understand China's need to feed its masses, but I question the good sense of Brasilian landowners selling off bits of Brasil to China.
Mar 15th, 2011 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasil has lots of land and water; things grow here. And a land-ownership can cover thousands of square miles.
I know Brasilian landowners have a right to sell their land because this is a nation of free enterprise, but there are higher issues at stake.
A land-sale is a once-off transaction; ever after the purchaser derives benefit (in this case, transfer of food to China).
Retaining the land and selling each year the productivity to China creates potential for an ever-lasting reciprocality in trade and national income.
As it says in the song . . . “I'm against it”.
It is just a matter of time before China starts dealing in world-wide real estate for population-transfer.
As eastern China withers under climate change, whole regions of China will need to be re-located. It is illogical to assume that this will be done just within the 'national boundary'.
When they come for our land and build on it *their cities, for their people*, will it still be Brasil?
...destiny !
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