300 Chinese fishing vessels were recently fishing around the Galapagos Islands. They strip the area of fish everywhere they go. They have emptied out their own fisheries which is why they are so far from home. Better get back to farming Xi!
And when you chase them out china throws a screaming fit claiming they are entitled to fish there. Of course try to do it in chinese waters they will just sink you and claim it was right, total nutters they are.
@@geneappeal the reason Somali pirates terrorize shipping is because their traditional fishing beds have been emptied. Guess who the major player was to do that.
Too many people and spend all their money on Aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, landing ships, aircraft - all to take an island that doesn't belong to them - and their economy is on the rocks!!
Just a small historical note - ussr never complete any of its food programs for people. My mother worked at a meat factory. I still remember her tears when she showed me white trains full of meat, ready to go to Moscow while you could not find any decent meat in the shops. Private chunk of land in the village where my grandparents lived was only a good source of food. P.s. I hate to work on land - all these weekends during childhood and teenage years spent working on this chunk of land ( ohorod ). Only loved to work with a cow and rabbits.
It is so true.... countries that were occupied everything was sent firstly to Russia aka Moscow and other big cities. It is so awful to look videos those "soviets" now saying how life was good back in the soviet time. It was good, because you lived on the back of others, ate others food and took others life... made others as your slaves and I dont think it was different in small settlements in russia as well... props most was sent to moscow.
@@mrsmerily I can't tell you how many times I've been ridiculed, blocked and silenced for saying the same thing. It's not that the Left fascists don't know about all this.
CN is living 50 years in the past, arent even self sufficient with food. Thanks to a corrupt party which polluted land, air and sea heavily, and treats farmers so badly. Party members with zero farming experience telling veteran farmers to do this or that per party leaders is laughable and has a sad history. Hint is my ID
@@tarstarkusz i put it into the wef conspirasy with all the esg thing that kill all ability for farmers to be economical along the western lands where the gov been infiltrated by those outside globalist intrest. regarding china is alot of bad managing they impoverish the farmers by limiting pricing to keep price stability but by that they killing the sector itself . basicly for short term stability they sucrificing long term susteinability
@@tarstarkusz not the hold war, but i doubt arrives those level, is more probable revolutions or mass civil violence, also problem is that more and more nations want to import food and they dont produce anything and want those nations were they buy produce more wiouth understanding i imposible
food is not on anyone`s blockade list ........... otherwise the US and the west would have done that , but they do not want another "japan" ! and money is money !
Yeah, if the CCP implemented forced abortion during the 1 child policy, I have a feeling they will start forced impregnating of childless women in china to increase birth rates
think of all the good farmland the've destroyed by covering it in roads and buildings.a lot of it isn't even used.what a waste,it's litterally criminal.
Lets see, first build ghost cities in farm land, pollute land, air and water, bad managment, put leaders that know bs in charge of farming, putting unreasonalbe cuotas and no incentive, and list goes on and on, these always happen in comunist regime always
PRchina, has already converted many of its previous agriculture lands into, once highly lucrative Property & Real Estate developments and as well into Industrial Parks & Manufacturing Zones etc. Example, 50 years ago, the 1970s, the Shenzhen City, was once all ...large stretches of only farm lands and small villages... now a modern metropolis. Now with some 20 Millions of UNWANTED unfinished & abandoned or/& uncompleted Housing & Apartments, how to demolish these buildings to convert the lands back to farming .. an impossible task.
lol like the govt won’t confiscate it. Last year they had farming cops force them to cut orchards and destroy farm buildings. told them to only grow specific grains. 😂
Curiously, in every society, farming and farmers are considered totally unimportant, even dispensible. This is extremely stupid as any society depends on farmers being present and able and willing to farm. But neither democratic nor dictatorial societies find farmers of any importance. Many a king and dictator have caused the most horrible famines.
The USA subsidizes farming to stabilize prices.In the USA there is Federal Crop Insurance so if a natural disaster ruins the crops the farmer doesn`t go broke.China will subsidize the auto industry, semiconductor industry, solar panel industry but farming is at the mercy of markets and mother nature.Sometimes the CCP is detrimental to the farming industry more than a helping hand.There are no farmers in the CCP.
People worldwide have lost the connection between things, Electricity-> comes out of the wall -> no need for power plants Meat-> comes out of the supermarket -> no need to breed Bread, wheat-> comes out of the biostore/ supermarket -> no need to drive around with stinky diesel burning farm equipment The environment can deal with humans declining, i don‘t know how humans will take it.
Remember when there were videos of Chinese literally seasoning and cooking rocks and selling them to suckers...I mean tourists. Yeah, they're going back to that now.
At least those rocks made a bit of sense from a historical perspective (licking flavored rocks during the famine). What really made we laugh was the chinese trend to grill and season literal ice cubes. Yes, grilled ice... it's hilarious.
China's agricultural land is far less productive than that of the US and many other countries. It requires far more inputs. Actually, Brazil is in a similar situation, only potentially worse. Disruptions in world trade will affect both China and Brazil greatly. One must not forget why the one child policy was implemented. The fear of the CCP was that their growing population would be a detriment to their rule because of their inability to feed it. Opening up and allowing massive food imports helped. The one child policy has condemned China to demographic collapse. That is not a strong position from which to threaten the world. A country that imports a large amount of food and industrial inputs from far away is in no position to take over the world. China's navy is in no position to guarantee these inputs will flow freely. That also assumes that other countries will still want to send them.
It was that the ‘one child’ had to be a preferred male that caused collapse. Males are notoriously reluctant to give birth.😉😉😉😉They killed off or adopted out their females.🤨😫😬
There is no such thing. To the extent to which a collapse is even possible, it is a short term problem. China already has like 1.5 billion people. The shrinking population will only be a problem for a short period of time, from the time the childless retire until they die. This is maybe 20-25 years.
@@tarstarkusz Wow! Where do you get your information? China has, most probably, less than the reported numbers, and they never got close to 1.5 billion. Some analysts believe that they have overcounted by 100M or more people, and these are those that would have been born while the one child policy was in force. Add to that the dismally low birth rate in China today and there is no coming back from this.
@tarstarkusz China has less than one billion due to official statistics ignoring/hiding (illegal) immigration away and covid deaths. Like many other CC statistics including GDP, their population count is also considered unreliable
China has built too many mega cities on prime agriculture land, hence the shortage of farm land. The youth need to return back to the farming, and the government need to support agriculture like the young Captain of Burkina Faso.
Bingo, i have watch in china show, and china uncesor said the same, they build cities in farm land, and pollute even more farm land, pollute air and water, to levels no country has seen, they show working in farmlands for a long time being like bad or not productive, and now they lack food, and have to import, well is theyre falt
They’re not going to return to farming. The cast system. They look down on farmers. U are lowest if the rung in society there being a farmer. I ain’t gonna get a wife being a farmer. A woman isn’t gonna marry a lowly farmer. There is a woman shortage. A bad one. They youth that is born on farms, the few, are fleeing farms. No one wants to be a farmer and be the lowly farmer. Their stuck up attitude and always with the “I’m better then u” in china will starve them out. They are big on the cast system. All about money and how much they make. Ccp has done this. The Chinese are all about stuff and how much they make and positions. Listen to their stories. And shows and movies. They are big on stuff, positions and what a man does for a living. And who is better than who.. farmers are the lowest of the lows. Young will not be a farmer. Men won’t find a wife. They will be looked down on bad. Chastised and made fun of. Actually sneered at and insulted. Happens all the time in china.they also damage their land, and a slew of other issues.. but they got to get the young to farm, they are not going to tho.
0:01 - 0:26 how can the younger chinese to farm if there's no farmlands because the ruling junta can confiscate the farmland anytime and it is rental.. the junta also can burn your crops like what i have saw on China Insights i think back in 2021 or 2022..
@@lance8080 and yet the ruling junta owns the entire land in china under the fascistic communism.. its also a plutocratic, technocratic and kleptocratic system..
Part of the elimation of cash crops to farmers, like fruit trees, and more emphasis on growing rice. The farmers want to grow food according to profit (market supply and damand). Not bureaucratic decisions made in a distant Beijing office. This is also doubly worse than a Western or democratic Eastern government. As a government, the CCP lies and covers up from top to bottom. This means no reliable data will be in for agricultural production. This could lead to a famine. Just like the Great Leap Forward.
The main problem is not manpower but management of land, water and financing. If there is too much uncertainty, government interference, or corruption, it saps any incentive to want to work. Under 4% of America is involved in farming but the feed not just the nation but the world
Yep, the problem here is definitely government interference. If your farm is not growing it is dying as you have to stay big to protect yourself from unfair market manipulation and government regulations. I just saw a video from yanasa tv here on YT about the state of Oregon going after small farmers by creating an invisible ecological issue where they went in and bought the land out from under the farmers and another tactic was restricting their water rights. End result, more small farms disappearing. A quick internet search also reveals this(something Europe has been experiencing for years now): “The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms. They’re using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can’t operate.”
Easier said than done. China has just too many mouths to feed. Their environment had been degraded by pollution. Plus, natural disasters are getting more common and severe, like floodings. They are just one failed harvest away from food shortages.
It’s it odd that we just accept OPEC but if we started an organization of grain producing countries and fixed the output and price it all hel l would breakout.
The interesting thing is that it actually exists in the U.S. Try being a farmer and plant something that the government told you to NOT plant. They will not let you sell it because they are fixing prices. So if you want to grow soybeans but they tell you to grow corn and you grow soybeans then they will NOT let you sell it. As for anyone who doesn't believe this then I just dgaf because I KNOW farmers that did this and this is the result. They have been doing this most of my life now and I am 54.
Massive floods that washed away entire villages in an instant, followed by devastating droughts that revealed pre-Mao statues hidden on riverbeds. All within the same year.
Ah, how convenient! Just when we're getting ready to go onto them, and they have no farming, no industry, no army, no population! It will be a piece of cake! Right?
@@suzannebinsley5940 IDK where you live, but half the canned fruit sold at Kroger and Aldi's bears the label product of China. The garlic is all product of China. That's from the farmland no one wants to cultivate
famers are their MOST important citizens/jobs, but pay them the least in the whole country to the point people will be delivery drivers instead of being farmers...seems smart
Seems like China is only boasting abt it's economy & military might whereas in real China is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world coz a country which is not even totally independent when it comes to the most fundamental factors like it's food supplies is a huge security threat for a country like China with such large population to feed.....
customers don';t want GMO foods. I work at a major oilseed company and any oil or meal contaminated with GMO is worthless to us because we have to decontaminate everything after its processed. plus customers pay a premium for certified GMO free
Deforestation won't work in the long term. It's not working with Brazil's deforestation. 90% of Brazil's ag is rainfed. This makes droughts, heatwaves and other climate interruptions a huge problem for consistent yields with soil from deforestation. Also the quality of the soil from deforestation makes it low quality for transpiration without the assistance of massive quantities of chemically assisted fertilizers. China's other land problem is the Monsoon season half of the year, the Himalaya regions in the southwest and the expanding Gobi Desert surrounding the northwest. Russia has a similar problem of the land masses that sandwich their wheat belt. You have the Arctic tundra north of the belt and desert to the south. A degree increase in warmer temperature from both North/South Poles will bring in that same climate interruptions consistently.
Don't forget typhoon season is coming up. Last year 3 or 4 took many sharp turns to avoid Taiwan and Japan to hit Beijing. The flooding of Beijing led to the opening of dams that flooded and wiped out the farmers and farmland down stream. How many more are going to get wiped out this year?
It also doesn't help that China more or less has ceded development of those seeds to places like the U.S. and Europe as well. A combination of lack of home grown breeding initiatives and a constant need for more and more productive crops has resulted in nearly all native traditional varieties of most crops being supplanted by imported ones. And it's gone on long enough that the reserves of most of those old varieties are depleted beyond a level that would allow an easy or quick return to them. Quite simply, not only is China reliant on imports in terms of bulk produce, but even they stuff they DO grow for themselves relies on imports of seed to plant. This also applies to adding land to farming. Those salt tolerant seeds they need are pretty much all the products of Western breeding programs. In short, were the West to cut off exports. China would probably not only face a major food shortage short term, but considerable difficulty in picking up the slack down the road. They'd easily be looking at a long term to PERPETUAL famine situation.
We bring migrant workers for our farms in USA, from really poor countries, on a work visa. Mostly under developed ones like.... Thai Land, orrr... Peru.
More homes need to have a built in green house. People should grow their own sprouts and other things. It's a massive waste of energy to grow and transport food, countries and states away.
Arable land per farming family of China: 0.5 hector. It is too small. It is can barely support the family. 2 hector per farmer is bare minimum for productive farming, even in developing country.
As a recovering farmer (LOL), I'd say be careful what you wish for. But having a decent-sized garden really is a good idea these days. It may not be cost-effective but the quality of the produce is much better than commercial produce and you know how it was grown.
You have massive, hundreds of miles, perhaps thousands of miles of completely barrwn land. They even have drone sprayers dying it green to claim they fixed the pollution when it has gotten much worse, especially in the lithium battery mining and refining.
Good luck. Farming requires a lot of "fresh water", and China is already pretty tight on that aspect. 1/5 of the worlds population, while having only 6% of the world's fresh water sources can't be that good.
The innocent people must leave their country, their leader will force the against their will, and their force the to give birth against their will they must all figth, and unite to stand up in to their government. Rise all of you stand up.
The CCP will subsidize all kinds of industry but what they need to do is subsidize farms and farmers.They built their big cities on farm land because they were choice locations for foreign trade exports.Watching the farming technics and the debts farmers occur and the low prices they get and the costs to get to market make people not want to farm. Land use and conservation of water resources seem like an afterthought and directed by someone approved by the Party.For being a so called "communist" nation it `s more like how to make a quick yuan with as little effort as possible.
Redirect the money from the military and invest in gaining more farmland production. Better farming methods could help. Robbing other nations and relying on them is dangerous for the Chinese to eat.
Not just in China where youngsters prefer urban lifestyles. However if CCP wants to reverse the trend, they can do it by making agricultural works pay more and the villages revamped and supported by tourism during downtime.
stop paying farmers less than what it takes to grow their vegetables, which means to monitor and manage the action of those "vendors" who bring vegetables into cities for sale, so they don't cheat the farmers, or force farmers to sell their crops for less than what it takes to grow them
As a farmer in Kansas. Most of our farms are generational farms. Some up to 7 generations .I feel for the citizens ,our government does the same thing to us. I wish they'd pick on someone else.
Comments written after pausing at in 0:16 in video (so I don’t have full context yet) truth is if they had to learn how to farm they’d learn in an instant. You can learn almost anything if you don’t have the luxury not to. If your option is being hungry on the streets or being in the country side with food and shelter. After being on the streets for a while you’re learn quick that either the street live is fine for you or you’d decide I’d rather have food and shelter. Remember it’s only relatively recently, that humanity has gotten access to so many things. just 100 years ago things were a lot harder to get. Yet for thousands of years people made it work. Sometimes people who to face discomfort or “suffer” to find out what is or what is not acceptable for them selves.
So many factors. China doesn't have very much usable farmland to start with, then China built cities on much of the easier to farm areas. The areas available to farm are not very productive and need considerable inputs. China imports some 70+% of it's energy, food, and food imputs. As globalization continues to break down, China is in a world of hurt even with their crashing demographics. The good news is they did land a space craft on the moon (not humans), almost catching up with the what the US did over 50 years ago.
Farmers should start hoarding food. That’s the smartest option for any farmer. Become a food Baron you control the food! Everyone wants and needs that stuff (weather they admit it or not) at the very least you will always have food for yourself and your family and friends.
This is really sad news. It's not just happening in China but also in India. Lots of youngsters are not interested to work in farms and want to move to big cities. This is hurting food production and also soil. It will be unimaginable if this continues and there is huge food scarcity across the world!
That might be a good thing to an extent. The more US land they own, the more taxes they have to pay, the more Green Berets the US Army can send to Taiwan.
The problem of how to achieve food security was always present but getting some kind of solution to the dilemma requires trade offs that the CCP is not willing to consider because aspects of the trade offs requires the CCP to accept risks that it finds unacceptable. Worse, the problem cannot be solved on any permanent basis because today's arrangements of trade offs would always be subject to changing conditions and need to be revised. And under a centralized authority would require that the authority always remember that things change and timely revisions are very hard under centralized, authoritarian rule.
Old farmers telling their kids not to farm is a theme everywhere. You can expect hard to maintain terraced hill side farms to be abandoned as in Italy.
Maybe a bit exaggerated......China does still farm and when young people leave the countryside the farms can grow bigger....in western countries only a few percent produce all the food. This is a natural development.
China and India both have populations of 1.4 billion people or more during a time when, not only are the younger people moving to the city for better jobs, but extreme weather events are diminishing crop yields, and both governments seem to be ineffective at dealing with actual problems instead of trying to make themselves look good to their populations. Foreign Direct Investment will take a hit as people realize the instability of systems that cannot feed their own people. This will create a further slide into poverty in both nations.
Aren't the government subsidies on those imports and the heavy use of machines in western farms partly responsible for why Chinese farmers can't support themselves?
How about : recruit U S Farmers for big $$$, order a ton of Burpee Seeds, and a tanker or twp full of Scott's Miracle Grow ? And a couple of thousand John Deere Tractors? Burpee Sweet Pod Peas were awesome !
Well seen that not only mi answer to tarstaakuz was erase, mi first one, but some of mi coment, i will said, what i see and said in other times, NOTHING IN THESE VIDEO IS NEW, nothing, many have been saying the same not only China, but the West and vital. Something i see in a video similar that discuss the future of China like two or tree years ago, first and something i discuss there THE WEST IS NOT THE WORLD, yes there is a food crisis, because the west and china depend more and more of import, and stop producing food on thire own because political reasons, and financial, not economical financial, why because food now is becoming more and more control, by a few number of companies that want more money, and make the process in ways wich damage the soil, yes is still efficient and goverment want small farmers or independent being absorve or disapear, control, of the food chains, wich lead to yes big production in short term and excarcity in long and big pricess. Also is the dependant in imports, wiouth thinking if something happen to that logisctical chain is bye bye, because there is more a push to ecology, wich reduce local production in favour of imports, and building in prime fertile land, leaving it useless for a long time. Not to mention lost in practice, and tecknique, not to mention not paying the farmers both in econoimical and respect they deserve for theyre importance in society. In that video, wich i discuss the isue, the guy being the one that made why america will have its french revolution, he said that china will contract, not only for lack of food, but also lack of oportunity to young ones have a family of its own, bad life conditions and more, it will contract, and population decline as it has happen many times, i see something similar with the world in general, a big contract, and a lack of push in tecknology as a general and back to more nation and local regional ideas, mine is the most lets said optimistic there are more darker posibilities. I put these because youtube has erase many times mi coments, not the first time, but well is what we have, and i am the most positive in these topic
China has a humongous population to feed. Any insufficient supply of food would pose a grave threat to the food security of the whole nation. As youngsters massively shifted from blue-collar to white-collar jobs in search of higher living standard in major cities, Chinese farmland is bereft of modern technology driving up the yields of crops. Though there is plentiful arable land across China, technological applications are still oddly meagre.
Growing purple collard trees indoors would solve hunger problems everywhere they take 2 years to grow before cuttings can be produced and can be boiled stir fried or made into chips and are highly nutritious problem solved the trees can be maintained to 4 to 5 feet and can live many years and grow in low sun areas I just bought one on Etsy
My uncle was trying to tell me the other day how rich my cousin got farming. I believe he was going to try to blame it on God. I've read all the papers in grandma's basement & know the history of the Minnesota river. Great great grandpa and his friends stole that land.
You only realise that the farmer is your best friend when you're hungry.
That's deep.
Always been
Yep and our government, The Netherlands, is cutting down on farmlands and buying out farms. While our greatest export is, agri. We are on world stage
300 Chinese fishing vessels were recently fishing around the Galapagos Islands. They strip the area of fish everywhere they go. They have emptied out their own fisheries which is why they are so far from home. Better get back to farming Xi!
You took the words right outta my mouth.
They are pillaging the worlds fishing grounds in utter contempt of the laws of conservation.
And when you chase them out china throws a screaming fit claiming they are entitled to fish there. Of course try to do it in chinese waters they will just sink you and claim it was right, total nutters they are.
There is nothing left in China water, No Fish, not even seaweed is left, that's why they are expanding into Indo Pacific Waters
Apparently, they dont do that very well either. What a backwards country.
@@geneappeal the reason Somali pirates terrorize shipping is because their traditional fishing beds have been emptied. Guess who the major player was to do that.
Too many people and spend all their money on Aircraft carriers, submarines, destroyers, landing ships, aircraft - all to take an island that doesn't belong to them - and their economy is on the rocks!!
I’m sorry. China what? Threatening an island THAT WAS NEVER THEIRS?
@@ValinPrezkowski I think he means Taiwan, which has indeed never been part of the People's Republic of China.
@@gerardvanwilgen9917 sick burn
Just a small historical note - ussr never complete any of its food programs for people. My mother worked at a meat factory. I still remember her tears when she showed me white trains full of meat, ready to go to Moscow while you could not find any decent meat in the shops. Private chunk of land in the village where my grandparents lived was only a good source of food.
P.s. I hate to work on land - all these weekends during childhood and teenage years spent working on this chunk of land ( ohorod ). Only loved to work with a cow and rabbits.
Sounds like the Hunger games where stuff would get sent to the capital from the districts
It is so true.... countries that were occupied everything was sent firstly to Russia aka Moscow and other big cities. It is so awful to look videos those "soviets" now saying how life was good back in the soviet time. It was good, because you lived on the back of others, ate others food and took others life... made others as your slaves and I dont think it was different in small settlements in russia as well... props most was sent to moscow.
@@mrsmerily I can't tell you how many times I've been ridiculed, blocked and silenced for saying the same thing. It's not that the Left fascists don't know about all this.
@@DrCruelThey know they just want to be the ones living in the capital
I hope things are better now. 🫶
CN is living 50 years in the past, arent even self sufficient with food. Thanks to a corrupt party which polluted land, air and sea heavily, and treats farmers so badly.
Party members with zero farming experience telling veteran farmers to do this or that per party leaders is laughable and has a sad history. Hint is my ID
America is also now a net importer of food. This is going to happen all over the word until the whole system breaks.
@@tarstarkusz i put it into the wef conspirasy with all the esg thing that kill all ability for farmers to be economical along the western lands where the gov been infiltrated by those outside globalist intrest. regarding china is alot of bad managing they impoverish the farmers by limiting pricing to keep price stability but by that they killing the sector itself . basicly for short term stability they sucrificing long term susteinability
Most of it comes from our good neighbors in Canada and Mexico.
@@tarstarkusz not the hold war, but i doubt arrives those level, is more probable revolutions or mass civil violence, also problem is that more and more nations want to import food and they dont produce anything and want those nations were they buy produce more wiouth understanding i imposible
America grow enough food to feed over 1 billion people @@tarstarkusz
Nevermind how polluted the land is now...
this country is a bad joke :))
The aunties are worried there is less crops to steal.
Ukraine should refuse to sell any agricultural products to China as long as they help russia.
food is not on anyone`s blockade list ........... otherwise the US and the west would have done that , but they do not want another "japan" !
and money is money !
I'm seeing "The Great Leap Forward" Part 2.🤣
But they will take the world economy down with them this time!
Forced farming will happen soon.
and forced breeding programme...
Yes, they want to move jobless youths from cities to rural areas.
Yeah, if the CCP implemented forced abortion during the 1 child policy, I have a feeling they will start forced impregnating of childless women in china to increase birth rates
Their fearless leader will tell his people to eat bitterness and sunshine.
@@trevorgough2286 100 child filled days.
But Winnie the poo told everyone in china to be a farmer!
He also told his people to eat bitterness whenever they get hungry.
@@mah7961how unfair, Winnie gorges on hunny while everyone else eats bitterness!
think of all the good farmland the've destroyed by covering it in roads and buildings.a lot of it isn't even used.what a waste,it's litterally criminal.
and even them buildings and roads are collapsing due to poor planning and management.
Biggest problem is the soil pollution
@@Jaysqualityparts Soil, water, air
At least it makes their GDP look good
I've seen swarms of people descend on a farm and pick it clean....tell me why this is happening to China
No respect for other people's (except party officials') property, it's the communist ethos
One reason it is good to know the plants that you can eat that pretty much no one else recognizes as food. So many "weeds" can be used to feed you.
Lets see, first build ghost cities in farm land, pollute land, air and water, bad managment, put leaders that know bs in charge of farming, putting unreasonalbe cuotas and no incentive, and list goes on and on, these always happen in comunist regime always
They can only grow enough food for 20% of the population. They will starve
It's ok, this problem will be resolved soon. Millions of Chinese graduates are coming to be farmers.
Let them eat cake.
PRchina, has already converted many of its previous agriculture lands into, once highly lucrative Property & Real Estate developments and as well into Industrial Parks & Manufacturing Zones etc. Example, 50 years ago, the 1970s, the Shenzhen City, was once all ...large stretches of only farm lands and small villages... now a modern metropolis. Now with some 20 Millions of UNWANTED unfinished & abandoned or/& uncompleted Housing & Apartments, how to demolish these buildings to convert the lands back to farming .. an impossible task.
Get out the city and raise your own food...alot cooler than starvation in the city.
You are more likely to starve to death in countryside than city. You don't know CCP.
Lol, like the government will just allow you to move.
lol like the govt won’t confiscate it. Last year they had farming cops force them to cut orchards and destroy farm buildings. told them to only grow specific grains. 😂
not in china where u cant own land and the pollution is horrible
1 400 000 000 too many, evolution is cure
Curiously, in every society, farming and farmers are considered totally unimportant, even dispensible. This is extremely stupid as any society depends on farmers being present and able and willing to farm. But neither democratic nor dictatorial societies find farmers of any importance. Many a king and dictator have caused the most horrible famines.
Blame globalization, countries don't strive for food self sufficiency anymore
I love farmers they are the hardest workers.
Too much alcohol, main reason Putin wanna more farming for bread
The USA subsidizes farming to stabilize prices.In the USA there is Federal Crop Insurance so if a natural disaster ruins the crops the farmer doesn`t go broke.China will subsidize the auto industry, semiconductor industry, solar panel industry but farming is at the mercy of markets and mother nature.Sometimes the CCP is detrimental to the farming industry more than a helping hand.There are no farmers in the CCP.
People worldwide have lost the connection between things,
Electricity-> comes out of the wall -> no need for power plants
Meat-> comes out of the supermarket -> no need to breed
Bread, wheat-> comes out of the biostore/ supermarket -> no need to drive around with stinky diesel burning farm equipment
The environment can deal with humans declining, i don‘t know how humans will take it.
Yes the massive starvation of the past for they’ve realized they can’t control all of those people
Remember when there were videos of Chinese literally seasoning and cooking rocks and selling them to suckers...I mean tourists. Yeah, they're going back to that now.
At least those rocks made a bit of sense from a historical perspective (licking flavored rocks during the famine). What really made we laugh was the chinese trend to grill and season literal ice cubes. Yes, grilled ice... it's hilarious.
China's agricultural land is far less productive than that of the US and many other countries. It requires far more inputs. Actually, Brazil is in a similar situation, only potentially worse. Disruptions in world trade will affect both China and Brazil greatly.
One must not forget why the one child policy was implemented. The fear of the CCP was that their growing population would be a detriment to their rule because of their inability to feed it. Opening up and allowing massive food imports helped. The one child policy has condemned China to demographic collapse. That is not a strong position from which to threaten the world.
A country that imports a large amount of food and industrial inputs from far away is in no position to take over the world. China's navy is in no position to guarantee these inputs will flow freely. That also assumes that other countries will still want to send them.
It was that the ‘one child’ had to be a preferred male that caused collapse. Males are notoriously reluctant to give birth.😉😉😉😉They killed off or adopted out their females.🤨😫😬
There is no such thing. To the extent to which a collapse is even possible, it is a short term problem. China already has like 1.5 billion people. The shrinking population will only be a problem for a short period of time, from the time the childless retire until they die. This is maybe 20-25 years.
@@tarstarkusz Wow! Where do you get your information? China has, most probably, less than the reported numbers, and they never got close to 1.5 billion. Some analysts believe that they have overcounted by 100M or more people, and these are those that would have been born while the one child policy was in force. Add to that the dismally low birth rate in China today and there is no coming back from this.
US = genetically modified food
@tarstarkusz China has less than one billion due to official statistics ignoring/hiding (illegal) immigration away and covid deaths. Like many other CC statistics including GDP, their population count is also considered unreliable
This "big food concept" sounds incredibly similar to "let them eat cake" lol
China has built too many mega cities on prime agriculture land, hence the shortage of farm land. The youth need to return back to the farming, and the government need to support agriculture like the young Captain of Burkina Faso.
Bingo, i have watch in china show, and china uncesor said the same, they build cities in farm land, and pollute even more farm land, pollute air and water, to levels no country has seen, they show working in farmlands for a long time being like bad or not productive, and now they lack food, and have to import, well is theyre falt
They’re not going to return to farming. The cast system. They look down on farmers. U are lowest if the rung in society there being a farmer. I ain’t gonna get a wife being a farmer. A woman isn’t gonna marry a lowly farmer. There is a woman shortage. A bad one. They youth that is born on farms, the few, are fleeing farms. No one wants to be a farmer and be the lowly farmer. Their stuck up attitude and always with the “I’m better then u” in china will starve them out. They are big on the cast system. All about money and how much they make. Ccp has done this. The Chinese are all about stuff and how much they make and positions. Listen to their stories. And shows and movies. They are big on stuff, positions and what a man does for a living. And who is better than who.. farmers are the lowest of the lows. Young will not be a farmer. Men won’t find a wife. They will be looked down on bad. Chastised and made fun of. Actually sneered at and insulted. Happens all the time in china.they also damage their land, and a slew of other issues.. but they got to get the young to farm, they are not going to tho.
After you do so.
the young chineese wasted their time and money going to college. they are not going to become farmers
You reap what you sow...oh wait!
The Chinese can always eat the buildings because they are made of tofu.
0:01 - 0:26 how can the younger chinese to farm if there's no farmlands because the ruling junta can confiscate the farmland anytime and it is rental.. the junta also can burn your crops like what i have saw on China Insights i think back in 2021 or 2022..
Yeah I also saw on China Insight how ppl with covid dropped dead in the middle of the street. It was in 2020.
China is a big country lots of open space land for farming
@@lance8080 and yet the ruling junta owns the entire land in china under the fascistic communism.. its also a plutocratic, technocratic and kleptocratic system..
Part of the elimation of cash crops to farmers, like fruit trees, and more emphasis on growing rice. The farmers want to grow food according to profit (market supply and damand). Not bureaucratic decisions made in a distant Beijing office. This is also doubly worse than a Western or democratic Eastern government. As a government, the CCP lies and covers up from top to bottom. This means no reliable data will be in for agricultural production. This could lead to a famine. Just like the Great Leap Forward.
@@kryts27 are you talking abt the Mao era cultural revolution?
Who needs fresh fruit when you can have yummy rubbery chemical extract steaks 😋
The main problem is not manpower but management of land, water and financing. If there is too much uncertainty, government interference, or corruption, it saps any incentive to want to work. Under 4% of America is involved in farming but the feed not just the nation but the world
USA uses poisonous monsonto "food"...
Berries pickers from Mexico not counted in 4%?
@@jussikankinen9409
They aren't Americans right 😀 and they aren't farmers either. They are fruit pickers a seasonal job
Yep, the problem here is definitely government interference. If your farm is not growing it is dying as you have to stay big to protect yourself from unfair market manipulation and government regulations. I just saw a video from yanasa tv here on YT about the state of Oregon going after small farmers by creating an invisible ecological issue where they went in and bought the land out from under the farmers and another tactic was restricting their water rights. End result, more small farms disappearing.
A quick internet search also reveals this(something Europe has been experiencing for years now):
“The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they’re actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms. They’re using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can’t operate.”
Young Chinese should take interest in farming and stop worrying about getting sun tan. China cannot rely on other countries for their food securities.
Easier said than done. China has just too many mouths to feed. Their environment had been degraded by pollution. Plus, natural disasters are getting more common and severe, like floodings. They are just one failed harvest away from food shortages.
And yet, Pooh is so focused on environmental issues right?
It’s it odd that we just accept OPEC but if we started an organization of grain producing countries and fixed the output and price it all hel l would breakout.
The interesting thing is that it actually exists in the U.S. Try being a farmer and plant something that the government told you to NOT plant. They will not let you sell it because they are fixing prices. So if you want to grow soybeans but they tell you to grow corn and you grow soybeans then they will NOT let you sell it. As for anyone who doesn't believe this then I just dgaf because I KNOW farmers that did this and this is the result. They have been doing this most of my life now and I am 54.
So they’re going to just overfish the oceans even more then, great.
Winnie the pooh says the youth need to accept the truth and taste bitterness.
😮😮😮I’ve seen the floods; it’s devastating!
Massive floods that washed away entire villages in an instant, followed by devastating droughts that revealed pre-Mao statues hidden on riverbeds. All within the same year.
Chinese farmers were relentlessly forced to urbanize. People living in the city are more "productive" so that's where you're going.
Ah, how convenient! Just when we're getting ready to go onto them, and they have no farming, no industry, no army, no population! It will be a piece of cake! Right?
But they were allowed to buy ours
@@suzannebinsley5940 IDK where you live, but half the canned fruit sold at Kroger and Aldi's bears the label product of China. The garlic is all product of China. That's from the farmland no one wants to cultivate
famers are their MOST important citizens/jobs, but pay them the least in the whole country
to the point people will be delivery drivers instead of being farmers...seems smart
Seems like China is only boasting abt it's economy & military might whereas in real China is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world coz a country which is not even totally independent when it comes to the most fundamental factors like it's food supplies is a huge security threat for a country like China with such large population to feed.....
customers don';t want GMO foods.
I work at a major oilseed company and any oil or meal contaminated with GMO is worthless to us because we have to decontaminate everything after its processed.
plus customers pay a premium for certified GMO free
Deforestation won't work in the long term. It's not working with Brazil's deforestation. 90% of Brazil's ag is rainfed. This makes droughts, heatwaves and other climate interruptions a huge problem for consistent yields with soil from deforestation. Also the quality of the soil from deforestation makes it low quality for transpiration without the assistance of massive quantities of chemically assisted fertilizers. China's other land problem is the Monsoon season half of the year, the Himalaya regions in the southwest and the expanding Gobi Desert surrounding the northwest. Russia has a similar problem of the land masses that sandwich their wheat belt. You have the Arctic tundra north of the belt and desert to the south. A degree increase in warmer temperature from both North/South Poles will bring in that same climate interruptions consistently.
Don't forget typhoon season is coming up. Last year 3 or 4 took many sharp turns to avoid Taiwan and Japan to hit Beijing. The flooding of Beijing led to the opening of dams that flooded and wiped out the farmers and farmland down stream. How many more are going to get wiped out this year?
It also doesn't help that China more or less has ceded development of those seeds to places like the U.S. and Europe as well. A combination of lack of home grown breeding initiatives and a constant need for more and more productive crops has resulted in nearly all native traditional varieties of most crops being supplanted by imported ones. And it's gone on long enough that the reserves of most of those old varieties are depleted beyond a level that would allow an easy or quick return to them. Quite simply, not only is China reliant on imports in terms of bulk produce, but even they stuff they DO grow for themselves relies on imports of seed to plant.
This also applies to adding land to farming. Those salt tolerant seeds they need are pretty much all the products of Western breeding programs.
In short, were the West to cut off exports. China would probably not only face a major food shortage short term, but considerable difficulty in picking up the slack down the road. They'd easily be looking at a long term to PERPETUAL famine situation.
We bring migrant workers for our farms in USA, from really poor countries, on a work visa. Mostly under developed ones like.... Thai Land, orrr... Peru.
In the most fertile land in the Midwest your farm needs to be at least 600 acres and the million-dollar tractor you'll have to share with a neighbor.
More homes need to have a built in green house. People should grow their own sprouts and other things. It's a massive waste of energy to grow and transport food, countries and states away.
@@irisbyrne6010 not every crops can be economically grown in greenhouse
Can't remember where I saw it, but foreigners visited the US and a few farms. They were shocked on how much yield a US farm has with minimal labor.
Plenty of lower coat equipment out tjere. Easier to fix and rebuild when the time comes. Too much pride for shiny paint.
Arable land per farming family of China: 0.5 hector. It is too small. It is can barely support the family. 2 hector per farmer is bare minimum for productive farming, even in developing country.
Ohne Viehzucht ist es mehr
Saw this coming miles away.
Ccp got karma for bullying taiwan, philippines and some other countries 🤬🤬
bullying
lying
Fabrication
Cover-uppurposely spread misinformation.
distribute a computer virus.
willfully spread a virus.
Your ignorance shines through by calling the CPC the "Ccp", no such thing. 🇨🇳
@@MrPilgrimukyea call it anything you want but post has you in a corner and you are going down. Because of karma June 4th is not your day.
@@MrPilgrimukGET BACK ON YOUR SIDE OF THE FIREWALL WAMOO
@@door1479 try again, but in English, I don't read word salad.
What a shame what I'd give to own a farm 😢
Unless you know farming, you don't want to own one.
As a recovering farmer (LOL), I'd say be careful what you wish for. But having a decent-sized garden really is a good idea these days. It may not be cost-effective but the quality of the produce is much better than commercial produce and you know how it was grown.
They can use cow manure for the soil it makes the soil fertile it gives organic soil
it is their fault they even support one country to attacked Ukraine one of their food source. And even USA, ND other country it's their fault entirely
Eat all that watermelon that is going waste
You have massive, hundreds of miles, perhaps thousands of miles of completely barrwn land.
They even have drone sprayers dying it green to claim they fixed the pollution when it has gotten much worse, especially in the lithium battery mining and refining.
Good luck. Farming requires a lot of "fresh water", and China is already pretty tight on that aspect. 1/5 of the worlds population, while having only 6% of the world's fresh water sources can't be that good.
The innocent people must leave their country, their leader will force the against their will, and their force the to give birth against their will they must all figth, and unite to stand up in to their government. Rise all of you stand up.
The CCP will subsidize all kinds of industry but what they need to do is subsidize farms and farmers.They built their big cities on farm land because they were choice locations for foreign trade exports.Watching the farming technics and the debts farmers occur and the low prices they get and the costs to get to market make people not want to farm.
Land use and conservation of water resources seem like an afterthought and directed by someone approved by the Party.For being a so called "communist" nation it `s more like how to make a quick yuan with as little effort as possible.
Redirect the money from the military and invest in gaining more farmland production. Better farming methods could help. Robbing other nations and relying on them is dangerous for the Chinese to eat.
Be kinda hard to farm. 80 to 90% of ground water is unfit for human consumption. And well over 50% is unfit for farming.
Fit or unfit, the crops must be watered
By all means what you must. If you don’t mind if your hair falls out and grow a tail. lol.
China as big or bigger then the USA theirs no shortage of usable land
Maybe expecting adrop in population
Not just in China where youngsters prefer urban lifestyles. However if CCP wants to reverse the trend, they can do it by making agricultural works pay more and the villages revamped and supported by tourism during downtime.
The situation is the same in some countries.
Good
Farms keep getting bum rushed by the older generation, why would u want to farm,
stop paying farmers less than what it takes to grow their vegetables, which means to monitor and manage the action of those "vendors" who bring vegetables into cities for sale, so they don't cheat the farmers, or force farmers to sell their crops for less than what it takes to grow them
Your awesome be safe out there
Whoa. Average farm size is almost 300 times greater in the US.
As a farmer in Kansas. Most of our farms are generational farms. Some up to 7 generations .I feel for the citizens ,our government does the same thing to us. I wish they'd pick on someone else.
Want more farmers? Government, pay the young people big bucks to go upskill and produce.
Rice farming is the salvation of Red Chinese employment problem
😊 and if you want a lot of chickens you going to need a lot of cornfield
This could be a good reason why China wants to take over more land in the China Sea and Taiwan.
Comments written after pausing at in 0:16 in video (so I don’t have full context yet) truth is if they had to learn how to farm they’d learn in an instant. You can learn almost anything if you don’t have the luxury not to.
If your option is being hungry on the streets or being in the country side with food and shelter. After being on the streets for a while you’re learn quick that either the street live is fine for you or you’d decide I’d rather have food and shelter.
Remember it’s only relatively recently, that humanity has gotten access to so many things. just 100 years ago things were a lot harder to get. Yet for thousands of years people made it work.
Sometimes people who to face discomfort or “suffer” to find out what is or what is not acceptable for them selves.
Easy to fix, use rotational grazing to improve the land and provide lots of mean, then use robot helpers to grow other food
Robots will be the farmers... and the poor becomes organ stock for the privileged.
But, their government didn't want them to farm or plant (at some point). I know i've watched it here somewhere.
So many factors. China doesn't have very much usable farmland to start with, then China built cities on much of the easier to farm areas. The areas available to farm are not very productive and need considerable inputs. China imports some 70+% of it's energy, food, and food imputs. As globalization continues to break down, China is in a world of hurt even with their crashing demographics. The good news is they did land a space craft on the moon (not humans), almost catching up with the what the US did over 50 years ago.
Farmers should start hoarding food. That’s the smartest option for any farmer. Become a food Baron you control the food! Everyone wants and needs that stuff (weather they admit it or not) at the very least you will always have food for yourself and your family and friends.
Can't hoard perishables. Need alot of other resources to freeze/preserve large quantities of food.
If I wanted to increase the yield of, say, corn, who would be a better advisor: a successful farmer, or a politician?
But the farmer can't say "No" to someone armed with a gun controlled by a politician, right?
This is really sad news. It's not just happening in China but also in India. Lots of youngsters are not interested to work in farms and want to move to big cities. This is hurting food production and also soil. It will be unimaginable if this continues and there is huge food scarcity across the world!
China has bought up a lot of farmland here in the USA
Stop selling your precious land to mainlander chinese. One day, they would claim your country as their ancestral home.
Under Biden’s watch🇨🇳
That might be a good thing to an extent. The more US land they own, the more taxes they have to pay, the more Green Berets the US Army can send to Taiwan.
@@lance8080 spotted the Fox News Sheep. The land rights have been revoked.
And...
Foreign buyers must follow US laws.
This issue is going on in many parts of the world. I traveled to several Latin American Countries and farmers told me thier facing same issues.
Americans wont work Farms... And were racist against the country who comes and picks our crops and feed us. Amazingly stupid, no? :/
Im not against the people of China but their Government...
If you don't own the land then why farm?
The problem of how to achieve food security was always present but getting some kind of solution to the dilemma requires trade offs that the CCP is not willing to consider because aspects of the trade offs requires the CCP to accept risks that it finds unacceptable.
Worse, the problem cannot be solved on any permanent basis because today's arrangements of trade offs would always be subject to changing conditions and need to be revised. And under a centralized authority would require that the authority always remember that things change and timely revisions are very hard under centralized, authoritarian rule.
Old farmers telling their kids not to farm is a theme everywhere. You can expect hard to maintain terraced hill side farms to be abandoned as in Italy.
Maybe a bit exaggerated......China does still farm and when young people leave the countryside the farms can grow bigger....in western countries only a few percent produce all the food. This is a natural development.
China and India both have populations of 1.4 billion people or more during a time when, not only are the younger people moving to the city for better jobs, but extreme weather events are diminishing crop yields, and both governments seem to be ineffective at dealing with actual problems instead of trying to make themselves look good to their populations. Foreign Direct Investment will take a hit as people realize the instability of systems that cannot feed their own people. This will create a further slide into poverty in both nations.
Aren't the government subsidies on those imports and the heavy use of machines in western farms partly responsible for why Chinese farmers can't support themselves?
How about : recruit U S Farmers for big $$$, order a ton of Burpee Seeds, and a tanker or twp full of Scott's Miracle Grow ? And a couple of thousand John Deere Tractors? Burpee Sweet Pod Peas were awesome !
Well seen that not only mi answer to tarstaakuz was erase, mi first one, but some of mi coment, i will said, what i see and said in other times, NOTHING IN THESE VIDEO IS NEW, nothing, many have been saying the same not only China, but the West and vital.
Something i see in a video similar that discuss the future of China like two or tree years ago, first and something i discuss there THE WEST IS NOT THE WORLD, yes there is a food crisis, because the west and china depend more and more of import, and stop producing food on thire own because political reasons, and financial, not economical financial, why because food now is becoming more and more control, by a few number of companies that want more money, and make the process in ways wich damage the soil, yes is still efficient and goverment want small farmers or independent being absorve or disapear, control, of the food chains, wich lead to yes big production in short term and excarcity in long and big pricess.
Also is the dependant in imports, wiouth thinking if something happen to that logisctical chain is bye bye, because there is more a push to ecology, wich reduce local production in favour of imports, and building in prime fertile land, leaving it useless for a long time.
Not to mention lost in practice, and tecknique, not to mention not paying the farmers both in econoimical and respect they deserve for theyre importance in society.
In that video, wich i discuss the isue, the guy being the one that made why america will have its french revolution, he said that china will contract, not only for lack of food, but also lack of oportunity to young ones have a family of its own, bad life conditions and more, it will contract, and population decline as it has happen many times, i see something similar with the world in general, a big contract, and a lack of push in tecknology as a general and back to more nation and local regional ideas, mine is the most lets said optimistic there are more darker posibilities.
I put these because youtube has erase many times mi coments, not the first time, but well is what we have, and i am the most positive in these topic
Hungry people are quick to grab weapons, but who will they use them against? I'm deeply concerned...
Also a big one is to stop wasting food.
China poor environment water and soil is depleted they will rely on imports , nothing can change that
China has a humongous population to feed. Any insufficient supply of food would pose a grave threat to the food security of the whole nation. As youngsters massively shifted from blue-collar to white-collar jobs in search of higher living standard in major cities, Chinese farmland is bereft of modern technology driving up the yields of crops. Though there is plentiful arable land across China, technological applications are still oddly meagre.
Growing purple collard trees indoors would solve hunger problems everywhere they take 2 years to grow before cuttings can be produced and can be boiled stir fried or made into chips and are highly nutritious problem solved the trees can be maintained to 4 to 5 feet and can live many years and grow in low sun areas I just bought one on Etsy
3 meals from Chaos, how many meals does china have left
They should convert debt investment into equity to cover the farm output deficit
But the population is collapsing so they'll be okay with less food.
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My uncle was trying to tell me the other day how rich my cousin got farming. I believe he was going to try to blame it on God. I've read all the papers in grandma's basement & know the history of the Minnesota river. Great great grandpa and his friends stole that land.
150 years ago you literally had to fight for what you had like pew pew in America.