China tells farmers not to miss planting season despite virus outbreak

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BEIJING (Bloomberg): Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told local governments to make sure farmers don’t miss the crucial grain planting season during a critical time for controlling the spread of coronavirus.

Government officials are worried that the epidemic could spread to rural areas, where medical facilities are less developed than urban locales. The outbreak that began in the city of Wuhan has caused more than 2,000 deaths in the nation.

Some villages have blocked roads and banned farmers from their fields, interrupting the harvest of tea and vegetables, Pan Wenbo, head of the planting department at the agriculture ministry, said on Tuesday. China will stabilise or slightly raise the government’s purchase price for rice in 2020, while encouraging farmers to plant a crop that can be harvested more than once a year.

 

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