date:Mar 11, 2013
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Loss of farmland and farm labor to urbanization - China's cities are swelling as they absorb hundreds of millions of people - and grazing restrictions due to land degradation add to food production costs.
The more the economy develops, the harder it is to raise calves, said Wang Jimin, who tracks China's cattle trends at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science's Rural Economic Development Institute.
In the short term, I don't see meat prices falling unless there are a