Analysis Of The Root Of Food Crisis

Recently, China's food safety accidents are frequent. It is reported that 90 percent of Chinese food products contain additives. With the exposure of food safety incidents in April such as the dyeing bread, poisonous bean sprouts, toxic ginger, beef ointment, people suddenly found that food safety in China has reached the brink of going out of control. "Make do with eating" began to transform to "what can eat".

Right now, the media and society all blame on the regulatory malfeasance and moral decline, few people will link the frequent food safety incidents with the decline of rural areas.

Our GDP is the world's second, but rural areas of our country still remain the original state. Dyed ink pasta, milk, staining bread and other food safety issues appeared. Analysts say that it is mainly because we neglected the rural areas. We only the focused on the city and forgot the low level of production in rural areas.

Although the food safety incidents like staining bread, even without an overall decline in rural areas, will still happen in the city, now rural areas are in real recession. It is definitely the most important source accelerating the deterioration of food security in the past. If the rural wasteland is not wasted, farmers are active in farming and there is no outflow of labor, China's food safety will not be like this.

Analysts say that what we particularly worry about is that the Chinese real estate bubble has spread to the most remote small towns, and even the mountain towns. In recent, the prices of houses generally soar and the house prices of many state-level poor counties have increased to more than 4,000 RMB. Such things are not uncommon. Indeed, the real estate bubble has spread to the rural town.

Now the reality is that though the central government's "Document" has focused on the "three rural" since 2004 to 2011, the local government has not put agricultural issues in a prominent position. They do not attach importance to the interests of rural areas and farmers. If local officials tries to build an international metropolis now and than, how can they solve the problem of the rural bonus depletion? Local governments do not pay any attention to rural areas and they do not put adequate investment in rural areas. The income of farmers in the city is much higher than that of rural areas. Farmers of course have no incentive to improve the natural level of production in rural areas.