Soybean in China

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In 2006 (the last year data is available), China is the fourth largest soybean producing nation. See the chart in the right with national flags.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean

China itself starts import of GM food (soybean) in 2004. See

China opens GM market on approval for soy from Monsanto. Foodnavigator.com,
Feb. 25, 2004.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/China-opens-GM-market-on-approval-for-soy-from-Monsanto

(b) China has not grown any GM soybean on its soil. As a results Chinese
farmers can not compete.

Li Xiang, No end to soybean wars. China Daily, Apr. 20, 2009.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-04/20/content_7693989.htm

Chen Yingqi, Soybean imports squeeze market share. China Daily, Feb. 12,
2009.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-02/12/content_9467624.htm

(3) However, China is developing its own GM food, so that it does not have
to rely on foreign companies (such as Monsanto).

Krista Mahr, China's Genetically Altered Food Boom. Feb. 18, 2008.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1714218,00.html

My comment: If China need not pay Monsanto--of if China is successful in
indigenous GM food, China will grow them all over in China--and bans you
from criticizing it (GM food).

(4) And China has itself to blame for small production of soybean--because growing soybean and grains does not pay in China. See the bar chart in

Fred Gale, Bryan Lohmar and Francis Tuan, How Tightly Has China Embraced Market Reforms in Agriculture? Domestic and global challenges could push Chinese policymakers to go further with market reforms or retreat from global markets. Amber Waves, June 2009.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June09/Features/ChinaMarket.htm

Note: Amber Waves is a quarterly published by Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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