The revelation (click here) that hand-pollination by Chinese farmers is growing and in certain areas hand-pollination is necessary ties directly to the loss of nature’s pollinators – honey bees.
While some insist the Chinese hand-pollination is specific to retaining genetics in high-value species such as the Jinhuali pear, the reality is that the bees in the Sichuan Province of China have simply disappeared after an avalanche of insecticides were applied in the early 1980s in order to kill a particular pest – the Psylla (Pear lice).
Duh – bees are also insects. The insecticides forced their disappearance in the region and their continued use sustains that reality....
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...It is also no accident that prior to the monocropping and resulting insecticide spraying, the region was rich with a diversity of bees beehives – both wild and cultivated.
But all that changed. Today there are no bees, even for the farmers that cannot afford to buy the pollen and pay for hand-pollination....
The production of crops in the USA will effect the world. The loss of bees in the USA and other insect pollinators such as butterflies will result in a global crash of the food supply.
The crash of the global food supply is not a good idea for Wall Street to pursue, it will ultimately collapse the commodities market. Where there is no food, there is no production of animal products such as pork bellies and cattle.
The corporate farm of the USA midwest will disappear and there will be a rise in family farms that have HEALTHY practices in farm production. The family farms are the only methods to insure production of agricultural products once the pollinators have disappeared from American farmland.
The nice thing about bees and butterflies is that they are completely benign in their roles when pollinating crops. If American farmers have to rely on worms to pollinate their crops there is no said consistency and production will fall because these other pollinators will eat the crop as well as pollinate it.
Either way, the way forward from the destruction of pollinators will result in the rise of the family farm and the phrase "bye-bye to Monsanto, everyone say bye-bye to Monsanto. Yes!" will be heard from sea to shining acidic sea.
For China pollinatoricide fits right into the national dialogue of how there can never be enough bees to pollinate all the corps needed by an increasing population of people. The real task for Chinese farmers is to find ONE or TWO bees in order to restore the populations that will ultimately be wiped out by the purchase of Syngenta AG.
December 15, 2015
It appears as if China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) (click here) continues to move ahead with a takeover plan for Syngenta AG SYT 0.82%, following Chairman Ren Jianxin's meeting with the company in Europe last week, Bloomberg reports.
If completed the chemical combination would be set to rival a merger between Dow Chemical Co. DOW 2.41% and DuPont Co. DD 3.29%, unveiled last week.
According to Bloomberg, ChemChina is in the process of discussing a revised proposal to acquire Syngenta. The company's initial cash offer of $42 billion was rejected on November 12.
A source familiar with the matter told Benzinga on December 9 that ChemChina was expected to bid $44 billion for Syngenta in a deal involving the bank HSBC. Sygenta and an HSBC analyst declined to comment.
