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To: GraceZ who wrote (7966)	4/11/2006 5:45:21 PM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24758

Even if they have the money they can't buy the land they farm. Correct. See fig.net Ultimately, because they don't own the land on which they might make improvements, they are subject to the caprice of bureaucrats. Worse, they are at the mercy of local bureaucrats who have family interests always more paramount than those of their neighbours. So farmers essentially can only get a commercial loan on the basis of the improvements they own, which are the buildings, and the land lease itself, (whatever that might be valued at it certainly won't be as much as freehold producing land). The Chinese farmer is at a great disadvantage compared to an American one. The very bad quality of food in Chinese markets is confirming evidence there is little free market activity in the agricultural sector. They are still serfs without the knights and lords. Yes.