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China has made great efforts in developing agriculture and achieved significant success in agricultural production during the last 40 years. The total annual production of staple food crops (grains and others) was 132 mill. t. in 1950, it increased to 435 mill. t. in 1990. Even so, China is still stressed for food due to it excessively large population (1,134 mill. in 1990).
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Jiang, AL. (1997). Climate and Agriculture in China. In: Yoshino, M., Domrös, M., Douguédroit, A., Paszyński, J., Nkemdirim, L.C. (eds) Climates and Societies — A Climatological Perspective. The GeoJournal Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1055-8_13
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