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China saw 80 million less farmers 1996-2006

The number of rural Chinese following the plough shrank by more than 80 million between 1996 and 2006, according to the results of a national agriculture census released online on Thursday. ...full story at china.org.cn

from china.org.cn on Tue, Jul 01 2008

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