seen it attached to multiple videos like this one of cops in fields with workers
first guess is that this is just a cracking down on kulak-type stuff
e: also found this :reddit-logo: post on the very non-biased r/fucktheccp
https://www.reddit.com/r/fucktheccp/comments/13hzzlt/xi_jinping_is_hiring_87000_agriculture_police/
lot's of commenters trying to launder terribly biased sources in there :shocked-pikachu:
Unlike the US, where agricultural corporations can dye their crops with cyanide and spray it with silver nitrate and turpentine if they felt like it, China actually has regulations. This irritates the western brainpan that feels it is entitled to do anything it wants.
Agricultural “police officers” is just the “prison”/“concentration camp” and “government”/“regime” thing, just standard enemy epithet bullshit :citations-needed:
Xi Jinping is not personally overseeing the hiring of low level government workers. He probably had no input on the hiring process at all. It’s like saying Biden is hiring 80,000 janitors at police stations across the country. This is just the racist “Chinese hivemind” bullshit dipshit redditors like to trot out
the planting of climbing vegetables like beans or melons and squashes in front and backyards is strictly forbidden. It's part of a rural "beautification" campaign. Apparently Chinese government thinks the bean and melons in front and backyards makes community dirty, untidy...
Hmm, evil communist authoritarianism or wholesome good freedomfying HOA rules? :us-foreign-policy:
One of the 'sources' I found was trying to relate this 'food supply control' narrative as part of some coordination between Xi and WEF. The initial clip I saw even had a Bill Gates meme (playing tiny violin) in the corner of it. Real :galaxy-brain: :brainworms: :frothingfash: convergence.
87000? Isn’t that the number of irs agents that The American govt gonna hire to harrass working class? Lmao, another projection
If it sounds ridiculous, just assume it's fake :shrug-outta-hecks:
It is actually good though if it does happen. However the English description of events is in nearly all cases just propaganda and not related to what is actually happening.
For one diversity of plants is important, however there are plenty of crops you don't want to have on farms or in the garden of civilians, cause of the adverse effects those plants have on your ecosystem on one hand, or in the chain of diseases (this means that some gardens can be safe houses for bacteria or fungi etc.).
In addition small scale farming often uses plenty more pesticides and uses more resources if done in a small garden. This means that there are good reasons to regulate plant and crop planting and growing.
Fun fact: It is not allowed to introduce potatoes or soil from Europe to New Zealand. It is also forbidden to import plenty of crops to the US, not only those with THC.
In terms of banana trees and sugar cane I would like to add the following:
Bananas are rotated with crops like sugarcane, pulses, vegetables, etc. It helps the soil to regain fertility and some extent to weed control. The period of crop rotation varies from 2-3 years.
You can not rotate, but then you have to use more pesticides, and fertilizer which affects the ground water and damages your long term soil viability. It also makes it so that certain kinds of weeds are much more likely, which will not only affect your plot, but other people's plots, too. Which means more weed killer will be used which is bad for sustainability and climate change reasons.
Then of course there are other aspects. The US and all the countries in the West do control and regulate some amount of produce production. It is a question of crisis preparedness and prevention. So if China does it it wouldn't be extraordinary :parenti:
Furthermore refocusing of what crop mix is good is a question of policy which does happen in any country, be it Germany where the christian conservatives got plenty of subsidies for bio-gasoline, in Brazil with the last president and the US, too. Of course having produce which has a better RoI is better for your trade balance. I doubt that the video clip is showing the effects of such a policy. It is much more likely that the video is from something that happens in Germany as well, farmers not acting according to guidelines to make profit and then getting arrested if they don't change their actions/pay fines/go to court (to be sentenced for fines).
Of course it might also be that some regional offices does bullshit, that is part of society as you will always have some people who do not act according to law, best knowledge etc. I have doubts that is the case here and think it is in line with regular policy you can also find in the West. Edit
I do agree though, if it sounds strange it likely is fake. But if fake stuff in China happens - especially if it is done by "officials" - then it often got legit scientific reasons and conforms to international best practices.
I don't have much to add but I remember one of the reasons that colony collapse disorder in bee hives through NA and Europe spread so rapidly is because of amateur bee keepers who allow infestations of varroa mites to proliferate.
That’s an antinatalism, which is not cool and very reactionary. Please face the wall.
On :reddit-logo: one poster is giving links "for more information". The link to the youtube video goes to a channel affiliated with the Falun Gong sect, which paid the channel for years. The host (streaming the "news" from NYC) was annoyed at having to be unbiased as China reporter and created the channel as response.
Ya, the place I first came across it was a share on socials. When I tracked it through the multiple shares back to a profile, it was full of :frothingfash:nonsense.
I'm assuming that it's like when China cracked down on Covid and Americans were raging about how evil and authoritarian they were after spending the last couple of years blaming them for it.
That's because you don't understand how perverted the Communist Party is. In 2018, a girl publicly insulted the Communist Party for demanding democracy. Her anterior lobe of the brain was immediately removed by the Communist Party and tortured in a mental hospital for a year. When she was finally sent home, she was still alive and intelligent, but she no longer had many emotions like a living dead person. Every year, there are many brave warriors in China who, knowing that they have little chance of success, are subjected to torture, Still standing up to call for the overthrow of the Communist Party, but they will soon be arrested and disappear, and people have no idea that a brave warrior once stood up to call on them
Who invented brainwashing in the 50's, was it you or the PRC? I think they know a little more than you about how the brain works.
That was us policy in lots of places until shockingly recently though
Xi on that Sumerian agricultural management, trust the plan and put your agricultural surpluses in the Ziggurat :theory-gary:
