A farmer has put out a call for help on Weibo hoping netizens will take pity on him and use their social networking magic to help him sell his 55 tons of radishes before the cold weather destroys his harvest. more ›

Hey, even farmers have to break out the video camera to see if they can get a few hundred thousand clicks on Youku every now and then. Farmers from Fujian province have filmed a patriotic music video, covering the Red classic, 'The East Is Red,' in their native Minnan dialect. more ›

A very patient journalist coaches a fruit farmer in Hebei Province to say exactly what he wants him to say, "There have been no hailstorms in the fruit farms this year." Just as the crew is beginning to wonder if they can ever call it a day, the elderly gentleman finally gets it right after the 476,284th attempt.
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Breaking news out of Hubei... more ›

If the tweets of Al Jazeera correspondent Melissa K Chan are to be believed, Farmer Yang, the man who protected his land with homemade cannons and bombs has run afoul of the local government. more ›

Malcolm Moore, Shanghai correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, meets up with peasant inventor Wu Yulu, who is in Shanghai's Rockbund Art Museum now to display his creations:
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Yeah, it's sad but true: in order to build Disneyland Shanghai, a lot of villagers in Chuangsha will have to be forcibly relocated in order to free up space for the 4.12 square kilometer theme park. Like usual, the government has promised to provide those relocated with monetary compensation, but hasn't revealed exactly how much they'll give out. As a result, farmers have begun to erect new buildings overnight to try to drive up the value of their land. One part entrepreneurial, one part sad: but with the government notoriously bad at providing displaced people with fair settlements, who can blame them? more ›

We always thought farming was a pretty exciting lifestyle- all that cyclical plowing, sowing, cultivating, picking and selling sounds like a blast! If you're actually farming, though, the charm wears off after a while, and you feel the need to move on to something more adventurous. Building walking, talking robots is old news, so why not up the ante and build a submarine, an airplane or a tank? more ›

The CCP warned that 2009 will be "possibly the toughest year" to secure economic and agricultural development since the beginning of the century. A document issued jointly by the State Council and the Central Committee said that the world economy's slowdown would have an increasingly negative impact on the Chinese economy. The best solution for keeping growth up would be boosting rural areas using social security schemes and rural land and employment rights protections. Will 2009 be the year migrant workers actually choose to stay home? Source: Xinhua more ›

Chinese farmer Wu Yulu came from an impoverished village outside of Beijing and did not have the chance to attain secondary education, but this did not stop him from teaching himself to build robots. This video features Wu's "30 second son" (as he affectionately calls it), a walking, talking, rickshaw-pulling robot which he says is now dearer to him than his own son. Having accidentally burnt down his own house and plunged his family into debt in the process of experimenting with robots, Wu has been hailed by the media as "China's cleverest farmer-inventor" and now works with universities and robotics companies, travelling around China to exhibit his creations. more ›