Potential changes to China’s farm subsidies, which would allow market forces to have more influence over domestic crop prices, could result in substantially lower state stockpiling of many agricultural commodities. This could release a significant amount of supply onto global markets, or at least reduce China’s demand for imports, putting downward pressure on prices over the next few years.
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