The Chinese government encourages land reclamation and organic growing

Little Donkey Farm, a small-scale fruit and veg farm near Beijing, is free from both chemical pesticides and fertilisers and genetically manipulated seeds and is co-funded by the Chinese government.

The farm delivers boxes of naturally grown fruit and veg to urban customers, as well as providing small allotments for urban families to grow food for their own consumption.

The families receive guidance about food growing and a chance to escape their tiny high-rise homes and hard-working lives in a concrete, metal and tarmac urban jungle.

Food sovereignty

Tracy Worcester, who visited the farm recently, points out that unlike China, food sovereignty is not a priority in the UK where 49% of fruit and veg farmers in the UK fear that they are likely to go out of business in the next 12 months.

In China, the government’s Rural Revitalisation Programme and food security policy gives subsidies to farmers to grow food, unlike in the U.K. where most subsidies go to NetZero programmes, like planting trees and growing bird seed, that for some obscure reason trump growing food.

Rural Revitalisation

To improve the quantity and quality of land available for growing food, the Chinese government gives the farmers subsidies to reclaim land formerly used for manufacturing, while the British government gives planning permission to cover our precious food-growing land in solar panels as opposed to placing them on roofs.

Promotion of organic farming

To promote organic farming, the Chinese Government also subsidises organic fertilisers to help to grow the sector, whereas Tracy gets no subsidies for her chemical free fruit and veg market garden. 

The Chinese want to increase home grown food and improve the quality, while globalists in the UK government sign free trade agreements that allow cheap, substandard food imports to undermine our farmers and perpetuate a race to the bottom in food quality and undermine our food security. Tracy fears that the ultimate goal is to syphon all the profits from Britain’s skilled independent farmers into Big Ag coffers. She comments:

“Under the veil of abating climate change, transnational corporations are driving the world to modernise agriculture with Agri- tech factories run by scientists using GMO seed, chemical pesticides and fertilisers, AI, robots and drones”.

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