China's Agricultural Land
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The China Quarterly
- Vol. 158, 414-429
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s030574100000583x
Abstract
Official figures show that the total extent of China's farmland has been steadily decreasing since the late 1950s and that it now stands at roughly 95 million hectares (Mha). Divided by 1.243 billion people, China's mid-1998 population total, this prorates to less than 0.08 ha/capita, a rate comparable to that of Bangladesh, equal to only about 60 per cent of Asia's and to roughly 40 per cent of India's mean, and to just 25 per cent of the global average (Figure 1).Keywords
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