Brewer helps plant seeds for success

Contract farming program leading farmers in Northwest China on path to prosperity, reports Xie Yu in Wuwei, Gansu

Farmer Wang Xueping's fondest wish is that Gansu, her home province in Northwest China, will get more rain so her farmland will be more productive.

Gansu accounts for less than 2 percent of China's grain output, although it covers 4.6 percent of the country's land area.