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To: RealMuLan who wrote (5751)	3/2/2006 4:51:33 PM
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[Chinese farmers are destroyed big time by the big multinational companies all over the world!]-- Pity the poor countryside, poisoned, polluted, barren 2006-03-03 ENVIRONMENTAL degradation is killing China's farmland, the northeast "Granary of China" is gravely threatened and if the deterioration rages on, national sustainable development may become a myth. As China sets out to build a new socialist countryside, saving the rural environment has become urgent. Rural pollution of land and water, soil erosion, industrialization and human activities are turning limited arable land into underproducing, damaged countryside. A concerned Li Chunlong cannot understand why his farmland does not yield as much quality corn as before. The 55-year-old farmer lives in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, known as "the Granary of China" for its large areas of fertile and productive black soil. However, a recent research report warned the ecological environment is in a critical state in the region, including Jilin and Liaoning provinces. It said excessive land reclamation, grazing and irrational use of fertilizer and pesticide have led to a sharp deterioration in the quality of its soil. The report, issued by the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said 34 percent of the black soil land has been eroded, and the black soil layer has been reduced by 50 percent over five decades. Lu Hongwen, a provincial agricultural official of Heilongjiang, said irrational land development, neglect of water and soil conservation, as well as over-cultivation, have hastened the deterioration. "If deterioration can't be halted in time, sustainable regional development will be gravely affected," the report warned. The same holds true elsewhere. In many rural areas, modern agricultural production, resource exploitation and urbanization have harmed the environment. Over one-third of the country's land has been ravaged by acid rain and many major rivers are polluted. The Daye Lake, in central China's Hubei Province, once had an area of 1,106 square kilometers. It has shrunk to only one-third of its area in the 1950s. "Once the lake was abundant in fish and local people made a living by fishing," said Feng Meilin, a farmer near the lake. "But now not only the fish are dying out. The lake is also in danger of disappearing, as large deposits from iron mines have been discharged into the lake." shanghaidaily.com