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88 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC • FEBRUARY 2018``````meat factories and dairies, sustainably mindedhigh-tech farms, even organic urban ...

FEEDING CHINA 89residents and nearly sextupled among rural ones.And China now buys far more processed foods,increasing about two ...

90 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC • FEBRUARY 2018The small fragmented nature of Chinese farmsis the crucial difference from Western ones, ...

FEEDING CHINA 91WALKING THE LENGTH OF A COW BARN andprocessing plant at Modern Farming’s Beng-bu Farm in Anhui Province, the l ...

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98 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC • FEBRUARY 2018Charoen Pokphand, or CP Group, is converting6,425 acres of filled-in mudflats outside th ...

FEEDING CHINA 99with crabs that are sold for food. There are pro-duce greenhouses, broccoli fields, drones todistribute chemical ...

Workers in Rongcheng, on the YellowSea, hoist seaweed to dry on rotaryUDFNV$FRPPRQIRRGLQWKH&KLQHVHdiet, it is usually added ...

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102 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC • FEBRUARY 2018park and corporate offices, where it’s easy to in-tuit another less discussed selling ...

FEEDING CHINA 103of windows overlooking the grounds, about adozen of us seated at a heavy wooden table witha rotating center. I ...

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