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Sustainable Local Agriculture To Support Liuzhou's Metropolitan Complex, Xiaojie Huang

Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)

In China, a majority of the population is involved in the large agricultural economy. Since rural incomes lag well behind those of urban areas, improving farm income is a major concern. The rising demand for meat caused by the development of the urban economy and society makes development of a breeding industry a mutually beneficial way to do this. Liuzhou City has a rural population of 1,596,800, accounting for 41.75 percent of the total resident population. The municipal government is focused on the efforts to develop the whole city's breeding industry, but it could not be done using traditional methods. …