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Hainan province, located in the southernmost point of China, is evergreen all year round and thus usually known as “the natural greenhouse”.
As the most important production base of natural rubber,breeding base of crop seed in southern China, Specific Animal Disease Free Zone and tropical agricultural base, Hainan considers agriculture as the fundamental, pillar and competitive industry in its economy. I. General Introduction of Agriculture in Hainan Located in the southernmost point of China, Hainan boasts a tropical marine monsoon climate with abundant sunlight and temperature which are suitable for the photosynthesis of plants. Therefore, Hainan is rich in resources of species and vegetations and is considered as the golden place for developing tropical high-efficiency agriculture with its own characteristics. Hainan covers a land area of 3.5354 million hectares, 42.5% of the tropical and subtropical land in China. The arable land is 769,000 hectares, which is 21.8% of the province’s total land area. Hainan has a population of 8.178 million, among which the agrarian population is 5.6 million, accounting for 68.5% of the total population.
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In recent years, Hainan has carried out the development strategy of “a province with one base and one resort” (i.e. building Hainan into a newly industrialized province with a tropical high-efficiency agricultural base and a tourist resort.), continuously consolidated the fundamental and pillar position of agriculture, actively pushed forward the strategic adjustment of agriculture and rural economic structure with the market demand as the orientation and resources as the basis, intensified the effort in developing market agriculture, green agriculture and technological agriculture, promoted the industrialized operation of agriculture and the overall quality of agriculture so as to accelerate the development of agricultural economy. In 2006, the added value of agriculture in Hainan reached 34.42 billion yuan, increased by 9.1% compared with the same period of last year; the per capita net income of farmers is 3,256 yuan, increased by 8.4% compared with the same period of last year, which exceeds the goal stipulated by the Eleventh Five-Year Plan of a year-on-year growth rate of 6%....... MORE |
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