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Enhancing Farmers’ Development, Productivity and Prosperity in Rural China - MTF/CPR/062/CAS

Year of publication 2024

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Synopsis (short abstract) Remaining poverty in China is mainly located in remote rural areas where farmers are isolated and lack significant resources and access to information and know-how. In response to the characteristics and long-term difficulties of the country’s agricultural development, the project selected four poverty-stricken counties, Baisha County in Hainan Province, Laifeng County in Hubei Province, Longshan County in Hunan Province, and Meigu County in Sichuan Province. These all had a high degree of ethnic minority settlement, a low level of industrial development, and a distinctive production foundation for agricultural products, without effective brand building. Given that agriculture is the main industry of the county economy, the representativeness of these four counties in addressing long-term issues such as rural revitalization and sustainable transformation of the agrisystem was evident and a key concern of China’s agricultural development. Against this background, the project aimed to address key obstacles to farmers’ development, productivity and prosperity.

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