China Should Curb Corn-Based Product Output, Exports, Radio Says

March 6 (Bloomberg) -- China should use economic and administrative measures to curb the production and exports of corn-based products including starch and alcohol, to guarantee supply to livestock and poultry, China National Radio reported on its website citing Bao Kexin, president of the China Grain Reserves Corp.

China should next curb exports of meat, poultry and eggs because their production worsens the country’s shortage of farmland and fresh water, the radio said citing Bao.

China must also cut land losses to urbanization and guarantee at least 1.8 billion mu of farmland, Bao was cited as saying by the radio’s website report.

(Source: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-03-06/china-should-curb-corn-based-product-output-exports-radio-says.html)