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Cultivating Modern Farmers
As the income gap between the country's urbanites and their rural counterparts grows ever wider, more and more young farmers have chosen to flow into cities to find better lives and employment, leaving behind in their hometowns the elderly
Feeding a Populous Country

With capable farmers moving to cities, more and more rural farmland in China is being left uncultivated. A large amount of arable land is being farmed by women and the elderly left behind in rural areas. The country will train more professional farmers and lure others back from urban areas to contribute to agricultural production and the rural economy

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