China's Agriculture
Total Area: 9,596,961 sq km
Land Area: 9,569,901 sq km Water Area: 27,060 sq km Climate description: extremely diverse; tropical in south to subarctic in north Terrain description: mostly mountains, high plateaus, deserts in west; plains, deltas, and hills in east Arable Land Use: 11.62% Permanent Crop Land Use: 1.53% Irrigated Land: 629,380 sq km Total Renewable Water Resources: 2,840 cu km Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 554.1 cu km/yr Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 409.9 cu m/yr A farmer checks on the progress of her rice crops.
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Natural Hazards description: frequent typhoons (about five per year along southern and eastern coasts); damaging floods; tsunamis; earthquakes; droughts; land subsidence
Environmental Current Issue: air pollution (greenhouse gases, sulfur dioxide particulates) from reliance on coal produces acid rain; China is the world's largest single emitter of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels; water shortages, particularly in the north; water pollution from untreated wastes; deforestation Total Labor Force: 798.5 million % of Labor Force in Agriculture: 34.8% Agricultural Products description: world leader in gross value of agricultural output; rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, peanuts, tea, millet, barley, apples, cotton, oilseed; pork; fish A farmer plows his fields in China.
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A farmer harevsts his rice crops.
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