'Everything is gone': Flooding in China ruins farmers, risks rising food prices

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Major flooding that walloped millions of acres of cropland in China, bad news for its economy, which is already in a fragile state because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Farm workers pull weeds from the rice fields in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on July 8. Bao Wentao's family farm should have been ready to harvest.more than 36 acres of rice fields that 19-year-old Bao and his father tend to in their village"The crops have completely failed," Bao told CNN Business in an interview over the social media app WeChat, adding that his family has already lost roughly 200,000 yuan worth of produce.

"The land is still under water," Bao said. "That means we are not going to have any harvest for the entire year." If the flooding is contained by the end of August, agricultural GDP growth could fall by nearly a percentage point in the July-September to shoulder the responsibility for safeguarding food security and ensuring that production does not drop off.has responded to the crisis with attempts to stabilize food prices and boost supply — including by tapping into strategic reserves of food.

 

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Canada has grain that China banned from being imported. Release the two Michaels and then we can talk. releasethetwomichaels

Everybody let’s get together and send back those mysterious packages of seeds they were SO gracious to send us in the mail for FREE

Karma is a biatch.

CTV why would you post this? Canadian winter is coming, what are we going to eat? Snow and ice? You don't need to worry about China, they have been around for over 5000+ years, their land can harvest food all year around! All the trouble with COVID-19 in the USA & Mexico!

I actually wonder why the Chinese flooding gets more coverage in your news room than all the issues China is causing for all the Canadian farmers. Start reporting Canadian problems not world problems please.

Everything gone, except... The RONA!

Oh...thought this was picture of temporary farm workers working in Canada.

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