Farmers need market data

Farmers should get more assistance relating to market conditions, says a commentary in Beijing Youth Daily. An excerpt follows:

After a newspaper in Guangzhou reported that some local banana plants had been infected with the Panama disease, a disease that can kill banana plants, the China market for bananas was disrupted.

The price of bananas slumped around the country and the banana planters in South China, especially those in Hainan Province, suffered major losses.