Rising prices eating into farmers' income
By Fu Jing and Wang Lan | China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-25 07:27
|
A farmer sieves grain in Haikou, Hainan province, early this month. While the country enjoys a bumper harvest this year, farmers' incomes have decreased with rising fuel and fertilizer costs. Shi Yan |
A dozen Big Macs - that is what a Chinese farmer will be able to buy with his earnings from one mu (0.066 hectares) of wheat this summer.
Photo
