Ever since China entered its phase of high economic growth 30 years ago it has faced apocalyptic warnings that its huge population and rising wealth would lead to food shortages.
By and large, these warnings have turned out to be wide of the mark.
China is mostly self-sufficient in the crops it considers key to its food security: rice, wheat and corn. Nevertheless, its agricultural trade balance has moved from the small surplus of the 1990s to a large deficit as it has become the world's largest buyer of soyabeans, only partially offset by exports of vegetables, fruit and seafood.
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