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  • China warns of pressure on food supply in next 5 yrs - paper

    01/29/2011 6:02:21 AM PST · by NRG1973 · 17 replies
    Reuters ^ | January 29, 2011 | Reporting by Aileen Wang and Koh Gui Qing, editing by Miral Fahmy
    China faces great pressure in securing its food supply in the next five years due to accelerating domestic demand, a senior official was quoted as saying in local media on Saturday. Chen Xiaohua, a vice agricultural minister, said he expected China's consumption of grains to grow by 4 billion kgs a year between 2011 to 2015. Consumption of vegetable oil will grow by 800,000 tonnes a year over that period, while meat demand will rise by 1 million tonnes annually. "Our country is facing great pressure in the supply of agricultural products," the Shanghai Securities News quoted Chen as saying...