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Liu Ligang, a farmer from Weixian county in the northern Chinese province of Hebei, was prepared to give up growing crops in 2018, just three years after he began leasing 160 mu (10.7 hectares) of land at an annual cost of about 128,000 yuan (US$19,800).
“I kept losing money, the output failed to increase. I was already thinking about returning the land and didn’t want to plant any more,” Liu said as he sat in a conference room owned by ag-tech giant Syngenta Group China in Weixian.
However, his attitude changed when a team of agriculture specialists affiliated with Syngenta approached him three years ago, assessed his land and offered him customised seeds, herbicides, fertilisers and support services.
edited by Ou Nianzhong and Liang Yongkang, and translated from the Chinese by Laura Maynard
Merwin Asia, 364 pp.
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