China’s need for crops may curb biofuel plans

A shortage of farmland and a government priority to grow food crops for China, the most populous country, could hamper plans by the country’s oil companies to produce biofuels on a large scale.

Construction, pollution and natural disasters are decreasing the land area China has available for food crops.

The amount of land that had been set aside for the wheat crop but was not fit to be farmed this year jumped 24 percent, the Shanghai Securities News reported last week.
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