HEFEI, Oct. 14 -- China's agricultural conglomerate Beidahuang Group has just concluded the first season harvest on a modern rice plantation in Xiaogang Village, east China's Anhui Province.
More than 30 rice varieties were harvested in the pilot plantation of 33 hectares of field.
Entrusted by the Xiaogang village committee, the company made the project so that farmers can have a free and assured choice of what rice strains they would like to grow next season. The selection method meant the newly harvested rice was cooked so that farmers could taste of each one before making the decision.
Yan Lihua, 74, has leased his farmland to another villager, so that his family can focus on running the countryside bed & breakfast business, and those more able can get more farmland in the village to carry out larger scale farming.
Seniors like Yan have childhood memories of hunger, and the village was known for producing beggars because of the land's low yield, before it won the fame as the birthplace of China's rural reform.
Yan remembered the autumn harvest of 1979 was particularly joyous after decades of famine.
The uNPRecedented harvest came a year after farmers made a secret pact to resist the country's egalitarian agricultural system. This was the event that ignited China's nationwide rural land reform.
The pact meant that after the farmers handed a certain percentage of their produce to the government, they were able to keep the rest of the harvest from their contracted land themselves. Owning their own fields gave farmers enthusiasm to carry out intensive farming.
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