effects


 * Effects **


 * If it continues at this rate, grain production on the 14 million mu (similar to hectares) of farm land in northeastern china will be reduced by 40 % in 50 years
 * Has already caused at least 200 billion yuan (29.4 billion US) in economic losses to China since 2000
 * The Yangtze river basin loses 2.24 billion tons of soil each year damaging 1 million mu (67,000 hectares) of cultivable land
 * 400 million people live along the river, and it has become another ‘yellow’ river and has been a clean river whose banks have been covered in green plants
 * Soil erosion has resulted in decrease of cultivated land, serious desertification, silting-up of rivers,lakes and reservoirs and aggravated drought.
 * In 2006 The corn output was 23 tons which was seven less than 5 years prior per hectare
 * In Jilin, 34% of its farmland has been eroded and the black soil layer has been reduced by 50 %.
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dust storm(wind erosion)