{"id":376592,"date":"2018-09-08T17:17:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-french-farmers-sow-grass-in-fields-to-protest-china-buying-up-thousands-of-acres-of-countryside\/"},"modified":"2018-09-08T17:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T16:17:49","slug":"prison-planet-com-french-farmers-sow-grass-in-fields-to-protest-china-buying-up-thousands-of-acres-of-countryside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-french-farmers-sow-grass-in-fields-to-protest-china-buying-up-thousands-of-acres-of-countryside\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb French Farmers Sow Grass in Fields to Protest China Buying Up Thousands of Acres of Countryside"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/09\/03\/french-farmers-sow-grass-fields-protest-china-buying-thousands-acres-countryside\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>September 3, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>French farmers lit flares and sowed grass seeds on land bought up by firms from China, complaining locals are being squeezed out of the countryside by foreign investors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Around a hundred farmers converged on land near Ch\u00e2tillon-sur-Indre in the Loire valley, where China\u2019s Hongyang consortium has bought more than 2,000 acres of farmland.<\/p>\n<p>It bought 4,200 acres in the region in 2016, and all told, the Chinese have purchased an estimated \u20ac76 billion (\u00a368bn\/$88bn) in French land since 2010, including a large number of Bordeaux vineyards \u2014 up from 30 ch\u00e2teaux in 2012 to over 160 today, <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/world\/protests-in-france-as-chinese-buy-countryside-xmltwwh98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">according<\/a> to <em>The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land is there to provide for farmers\u2019 families and to produce food,\u201d complained Laurent Pinatel, a spokesman for the Small Farmers\u2019 Confederation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [Chinese] owners have come here to make a profit, to speculate on agriculture while monopolising the land,\u201d Mr Pinatel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2018\/09\/03\/french-farmers-sow-grass-fields-protest-china-buying-thousands-acres-countryside\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Monday, September 3, 2018  at  6:43 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/french-farmers-sow-grass-in-fields-to-protest-china-buying-up-thousands-of-acres-of-countryside.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/french-farmers-sow-grass-in-fields-to-protest-china-buying-up-thousands-of-acres-of-countryside.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartSeptember 3, 2018 French farmers lit flares and sowed grass seeds on land bought up by firms from China, complaining locals are being squeezed out of the countryside by foreign investors. 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