Farmers charge harvested rice in the municipality of Gangkou in Yueyang County, Hunan province of Central China. Photo / Xinhua The experience of the country to reduce waste, increase shared production around the world
China's cumulative experience in reducing food loss and waste is sharing with The world and can help developing countries improve their ability to reduce loss food and ensure food security, experts and officials said.
According to FAO, over 155 million people experienced acute food insecurity in 2020, the highest number in the last five years, due to conflicts, extreme climate events and economic shocks related to Covid-19.
Wu Lading, Professor in China Agricultural The University C OLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT, said that loss of food and waste are affected greatly by economic development, with developing countries that lose Food mainly before they are sold and developed countries after sale to for example.
For example, the loss of food and waste occur mainly in the harvest and storage in Africa and South Asia. Up to 30 percent of the loss of food was found during farmers' storage in some areas in Africa, and 21 percent of food in the United States was wasted during daily consumption, Wu said at an economic newspaper.
Compared to the average world, the loss of food and the waste situation in China is comparatively better. China loses 35 million tons of grain before retail every year, an amount approximately equal to the general grain production of Sichuan province last year, 35.8 million tons.
China's experience shows that grain production increases and reducing food loss and waste is a significant way of guaranteeing national food security. In November, the country issued an action plan to save food in multiple procedures to add high quality "invisible" agricultural land.
Meanwhile, reduction of loss and waste saves ground, water, fertilizer and pesticides, and thus protects the environment and reduces carbon dioxide emissions, helping sustainable development .
"because different countries face the loss of food and waste in different procedures, each country must find measures based on their situation," Wu said.
The lower developed economies should focus on saving food during harvesting and storage, which can be achieved by promoting varieties that can withstand unfavorable conditions, such as climate and pests, and improve the Modern agricultural machinery, storage and high quality transport. Equipment, he added.
China has advanced in food savings by promoting the laws against food waste and action plans to save food and reduce loss throughout the process of retail harvest, Zhou Guanhua , of the national. Administration of food and strategic reserves, he said last month.
"We have built 5,400 postproduction service centers, covering 1,000 important grain counties in the country, to provide services that include cleaning, drying, storage, processing and retail." Zhou said, Adding that daily drying capacity can reach 1.1 million tons.
Centers can greatly reduce the loss of foods that occurs through deficient storage facilities and limited drying capacity after harvest, as some farmers in northeastern China still dry the Grain on the ground or put it on its patios.
Innovation, technologies and infrastructure are fundamental to increase the efficiency of food systems and to reduce loss of food and waste.
Zhou Said technologies to store the grain have been applied in the warehouses. "The large grain deposits in the country can reduce the speed of grain loss during storage less than 1 percent".
Special vehicles for grain grain,
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