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To: ColtonGang who wrote (169088)	8/8/2001 7:21:34 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

American farmers are scared to death of China....LATIMES......"Just how far China has come is one of the great accomplishments in the realm of agriculture. The vast majority of China's population still is working the land and their incomes lag far behind their urban neighbors. Farmers have suffered from a shortage of water and energy. But in the less than a decade since the government lifted its heavy hand from farmers, China has become the world's leading producer of fruits and vegetables. China grows seven times the amount of vegetables and twice as much fruit as the U.S. China Already Taking Chunks of Asian Market This growth was accomplished by having Chinese farmers drop less-profitable grains in favor of high-value export crops. It is in labor-intensive crops such as tree fruit and specialty vegetables where China has the greatest competitive advantage. In apples, China's production jumped from 4 million tons in 1990 to a whopping 22.9 million tons in 2000. In pears, production over that same period expanded from 2.5 million tons to 8.6 million tons. Last year, exports of Chinese broccoli to Japan soared to 9,000 tons from just 2,265 tons the previous year while exports of U.S. broccoli, primarily from California, declined from 87,603 tons to 70,000 tons,