Janis Mackey Frayer is a Beijing-based correspondent for NBC News.
CHENGDU, China — As the green and yellow crops swayed around her, the farmer provided a small insight into China’s efforts to feed its 1.4 billion people. “It’s all rice,” the woman surnamed Liu, 60, told NBC News last month. “Even in the local graveyard.
” In its bid to seek greater self-sufficiency for a fifth of the world’s population with less than 10% of the world’s arable farmland, the Chinese government is expanding areas for planting and has already reclaimed nearly half a million acres nationwide to grow more staple foods like rice, soybeans and wheat. But most of the country’s farming regions are under the monsoon influence, making them susceptible to floods and drought.
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