ABSTRACT
China’s agricultural and rural reforms have been remarkably successful in increasing the real incomes of rural people, in expanding agricultural output at sustained high rates for more than two decades, and in improving the quantity and variety of food available to the Chinese people (Johnson, 1990, 1996). The reforms have been the most successful of all the agricultural reforms attempted anywhere in the last half century. However, changes in the 1990s policies affecting grain production, pricing, and marketing were regressive and adversely affected grain production, marketing, and the welfare of farmers.
