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Figure 1.8. Agriculture in China (photo E. Dahlquist).
Figure 1.9. Bamboo at Southern Hainan, China.
we also see a lot of rice being produced, but also fruits and vegetables of different kind. Here in
Figure 1.13 rice and melons are being produced.
There are about 16 million ha of marginal lands available for planting starch tuber crops like
cassava and sweet potato (Subramanian Narayana Moorthy).