World's biggest population looks towards Pakistan for food.

[BHarwana]

China and Pakistan can learn a lot from each other in agriculture sector. We both nations have different agricultural practices and we both can learn from each other and improve our own agricultural practices. It is a win win situation for both countries.

 

[313ghazi]

That's what China thought before 1980's, back then we were a net food exporter. Back in the 80's and 90's , a lot of Chinese intellectuals passionately argued against open market economy, they believed that that new policy was gonna kill China's every industry and agriculture cause we were so backward in everything, we couldn't even put up a decent fight in any competition against advanced foreign competitor, a hard won national independence which cost millions of our countrymen's live was going down the drain and we were gonna fall into a economic colony of the world powers again in no time.

The protectionism you awarded your strategic industries has led you to where you are today. There are industries which should be open and others that shouldn't be. For me personally, a successful nation should be self sufficient in food, energy, shelter, transportation, healthcare, education and defence. Until we can achieve that i will never consider us properly successful.

Take energy for example, instead of buying energy from China, we are spending money on Chinese developing our energy sector - this i can agree with. Even buying energy short term from foreign suppliers i can agree with, but long term we need a plan to be self sufficient in energy. For a nation like us that means a massive drive for green energy.

Farming is something we are currently self sufficient in. Only a fool would risk that for profits. We have a huge unemployed labour force, we have a growing population, we abundant land which could be farmed, why not do it yourself? Just because someone else can do it better, doesn't mean you stop doing it yourself. What we should be doing is buying Chinese knowledge and expertise to implement in our own farms - to make them more efficient.

 

[haidian]

The protectionism you awarded your strategic industries has led you to where you are today. There are industries which should be open and others that shouldn't be. For me personally, a successful nation should be self sufficient in food, energy, shelter, transportation, healthcare, education and defence. Until we can achieve that i will never consider us properly successful.

Take energy for example, instead of buying energy from China, we are spending money on Chinese developing our energy sector - this i can agree with. Even buying energy short term from foreign suppliers i can agree with, but long term we need a plan to be self sufficient in energy. For a nation like us that means a massive drive for green energy.

Farming is something we are currently self sufficient in. Only a fool would risk that for profits. We have a huge unemployed labour force, we have a growing population, we abundant land which could be farmed, why not do it yourself? Just because someone else can do it better, doesn't mean you stop doing it yourself. What we should be doing is buying Chinese knowledge and expertise to implement in our own farms - to make them more efficient.

If your suggestions can be carried out, that will be perfect,but still, if we didn't sacrifice some of our own interests, those foreign companies wouldn't come to China in the first place, it's all about making compromise for the both sides.

Sometime it could be very hard to say if something is right or wrong, I, same as all other Chinese, believe that ceding Hong Kong to UK was a national humiliation and it was the lowest point of whole China's history, but putting it in perspective, without money and technology from Hong Kong and through Hong Kong from foreign investors, China absolutely can never ever develop that fast.

 

[randomradio]

what will be your opinion if we lease it to india then you will say it is good

Good for India, not Pakistan.

There are millions of acres of land waiting to put in use with drip irrigation. No shortage of fertile land in Pakistan, just need better technology and investment to take advantage of.

You are supposed to be doing this yourself. Foreigners should hold zero acres of your own farmland.

 

[Alpha BeeTee]

Thar looks to Pakistan for food..so does Yemen