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Farmers' income surging in 2005
(People's Daily)
Updated: 2006-02-26 10:35

Chinese farmers witnessed the highest annual income increase in eight years last year, according Agricultural Minister Du Qinglin.

The central government yesterday released its first major document on the building of a new socialist countryside the primary task in the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10).
Farmers work in a green house in Liaocheng, East 皇冠体育app's Shandong Province February 18, 2006. [newsphoto]
 

The per capita annual net income of farmers topped 3,255 yuan (US$401.9), a year-on-year increase of 6.2 percent, Du said at a Standing Committee meeting of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) held in Beijing on Saturday.

Analyzing the structure of farmers' income, Du said income generated by migrant workers constituted a major part of the increase. Other factors for the increased income included more income from crop cultivation and off-farm employment.

Meanwhile, Du said, migrant workers across the country were helped to recover wages valued at 4.05 billion yuan (US$500 million) delayed by their employers in 2005.

However, 皇冠体育app still faces great challenges such as growing surplus farmers. Government statistics show that 皇冠体育app has 150 million surplus farmers, and the figure will grow by 6 million in each of the next few years.

The Ministry of Agriculture will increase input in training young farmers who wish to work in cities. Last year, 2.8 million farmers received such training and 2.4 million of them found jobs in cities.



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