farmers

  • East Asia

    China’s soaring demand for fruit benefits foreign fruit farmers

    The volume of avocados being imported has grown by nearly ten thousand times in just a few years in China, while pricey imported cherries are jokingly regarded as a new criterion for a person’s financial status by Chinese netizens. Moreover, some Chinese people are even flying to Thailand or Malaysia…

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  • East Asia

    E-commerce contributes to income growth of Chinese farmers

    E-commerce is helping Chinese farmers improve their income, and the Chinese online shopping site Taobao under e-commerce giant Alibaba has set a great example in this regard by helping farmers build unique brands of agricultural products. Shen Zhubing, a farmer who has 0.33 hectare of millet land in Huai’an county,…

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  • East Asia

    Supply-side reform helps Chinese farmers locate target markets

    Chinese farmers are using their wisdom and modern strategies to cater for the market, and such supply-side reform is helping them gaining more profits. Wu Kai, staff from a fruit company in east China’s Jiangxi province has greatly boosted the company’s navel orange sales thanks to the supply-side reform he…

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  • East Asia

    China puts household farmers on road to modern agriculture

    Chinese small agricultural households, the biggest part of the country’s agricultural population, are joining a national drive to pursue modernized agriculture, with the help of new technologies and better commercial services. The change comes as the accelerated pace of urbanization has resulted in a shift in the distribution of the…

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