Empowering farmers
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Affordable computers could prove to be the best means of bringing information to rural China
One of Sichuan province's 61 million farmers is Zhang Hongshen, who owns a few acres in a small town 60 kilometers north of Chengdu.
After 2005, when the price of radishes boomed, he expanded his production to 75% of his land and left the rest for tomatoes and cabbage. But in the winter of 2006 prices plummeted.
"I was so happy to see a bigger harvest. But the price was a shock - US$0.03 per jin [half a kilo]," Zhang said.
Selling his entire harvest would ...
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