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By Kemi Yesufu, who recently returned from China

The 1949 revolution, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), resulted in the proclamation of the People's Republic of China and the CCP's consolidation of power on the mainland. Several years after another silent revolution took place in China, it was the agricultural revolution.

It is safe to describe China as not just a vast country dotted with well-built and well-administered cities, but one which has cultivated land almost everywhere you look.   

After a few days in Beijing, the beautiful capital city of China, I joined other participants for the seminar on Agricultural Machinery Development Planning and Safety Management for Developing Countries in a high-speed train to Jiamusi in Heilongjiang Province. For most of the eight-hour journey, both sides of the rail route were cultivated land with tall buildings in the background forming a nice combination of the two basic needs of man.

The team of participants from five nations, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, The Gambia, Pakistan and Jordan, travelled to Jiamusi to see more of the many factories producing the machinery and farming input that powers China’s mechanised food production. One of the places visited in Jiamusi is the fully mechanised and digitalized, Intelligent Farm run by Beidahuang Kengzheng Agricultural Machinery company. An interesting fact is that President Xi Jinping visited the same farm in 2018.

Read more @: https://frontlinenews.com.ng/chinas-agricultural-revolution-lessons-for-nigeria/

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