Transcript Impact of Globalization on Farming

Impact of
Globalization on
Farming
China’s Entry into WTO
• Challenges
• custom duties on foreign agricultural
products would decrease
• prices of imported agricultural product
would decrease
• quality of imported agricultural products
may be better, and so are more
competitive
• the local farmers may lose their jobs.
What can we do?
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Lesson from Mexico
Establish plantations
Employment small farmers as worker
Grow more cash crop / market-oriented
Export-oriented
Regional specialization
e.g. Apple enterprise in ShannXi and
Shandong
• e.g. in Mengniu Nei Mongol
What can we do?
• agriculture entrepreneurialsation /
(commercial farming)
• Development of township business to
provide employment opportunities
• Government aid in technology, credit
system
• Improvement in education and
transportation
China’s Entry into WTO
• Opportunities
• bring in more foreign capital to invest in
agriculture
• speeding up the pace of agriculture
entrepreneurialsation
• improving crops and agricultural
production technology
• enhancing the competitiveness of Chinese
agricultural products.
China’s Entry into WTO
• Opportunities
• promoting agricultural and rural reforms
• benefiting the development of township
business and provide job opportunities
• improving Chinese legal system, providing
protection for peasants
Fair Trade in Agriculture
• http://www.maketradefair.org.hk/trad/index.
html
New
Hopes for
New Life
Migrant Workers
• Rush into cities in the eastern part
of China to seek for employment
• Rural areas of the Western and
Central China
• Most of them come from the Sichuan
province
Farmers leave their home
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Seek for employment opportunities
Loss their job
Without farmland
Under production responsibility system
Low price of farming products
Under free market
Natural hazards
Rural poverty
Farmers leave their home
• Greater gap between urban and rural
under open door policy
• According the "Statistical Communique
2001" released by the National Bureau of
Statistic of China, the annual per capita
disposable income of urban households
was RMB$6,860 in 2001, with a real
increase of 8.5 percent. The per capita
net income of rural households was
RMB$2,253.
Migrant Workers
• Guangdong (Pearl River Delta),
Shanghai (Chang Jiang Delta), Fujian,
and Beijing to look for jobs.
• According to official estimation, half
of the migrant workers in the whole
country now concentrate in the Pearl
River Delta
• World factory / foreign investment
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Problems
Urban problems
They sacrificed their family, and health
exploited by the employers
Social problems
industrial accidents
the urban residents hold biased views to
these migrant workers, seeing them as
causes of corruption and heavy burdens to
the urban social system
• Pressure on transport during new year
China’s entry into WTO
• Competition of imported farming products
• Further drop in the price of agricultural
products
• agriculture entrepreneurialsation
• More farmers lose their job
• Decline of rural economy
• Greater gap between urban and rural
• More migrant workers