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Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Yunnan) found that they were losing profits
and domestc market shares (Newspaper of Southern Agrculture 2006). As
a result, many fruit trees have been destroyed. Therefore, certain policies
should be taken to assst the transton to dfferent farmng actvtes or to
help farmers move to non-agrcultural sectors.
Notes
1 The original ASEAN members include Brunei, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
and the Phlppnes.
2 Some sub-groups include the following commodities: SITC21 (hides, skins and fur, raw),
SITC22 (oil seeds/oil fruits), SITC23 (crude rubber), SITC26 (textile fibres) and SITC29
(crude anmal and vegetable materals).
3 SITC057 is one of the important components of fruit exports in China and ASEAN,
accounting for 35 per cent and 54.6 per cent of total fruit exports, respectively, in 2005.
Moreover, this category dominated fruit exports from ASEAN to China in 2005, making
up 94.8 per cent of the total.
4 Other fresh fruits (SITC05798) include tropical fruits such as durian, longan and
mangosteen, which China imports in large quantities from ASEAN.
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