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The nation has one-fifth of the world’s population, and that many mouths to feed, with less than 10% of the Earth’s arable land.

If China can be more self-sufficient in staple foods, it would be a contribution to the world's food security too,” said Zhang. “The less China imports, the more other countries will have.

“Chinese food security is world food security” is a thing, absolutely rampaging across markets over the past few years.

Along with diversifying fertilizer production outside geopolitically active areas (including China), an increasingly food secure China would be a simply absurd boon to world food security as we enter an era of less than stable supply chains.




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