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There's something very wrong with your economics when you need to double subsidies to get farmers to rotate crops

BEIJING, June 20 (Reuters) - China will spend almost twiceas much this year on subsidies to encourage farmers in thenortheast to reduce corn plantings as it intensifies its push torebalance grain stocks.

The country will issue 2.56 billion yuan ($374.95 million)in funds to pay farmers subsidies to rotate their corn plantingswith other crops every other year as well as to leave some landfallow, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.

The funds are 78 percent higher than last year, and theacreage targeted by the subsidies is double last year’s area ataround 800,000 hectares.

Giving myself a quick break by reading ...

Giving myself a quick break by reading Lukas Rosenstock’s monthly review, and coming away with a few thoughts. One is that Lukas is brave, as he recognises, to admit that some things aren’t going to plan. Another is that he used six Pomodori to write the review; that seems like time well spent. Another is that he mentions a few tools that are new to me and that I ought to check out. But there’s the rub. There’s no point checking them out unless I plan to make some use of them.

I do my monthly reviews OK, although June is delayed until next weekend because I have paid work to finish. Should I publish them, and hold myself publicly accountable? Lots of #indieweb enthusiasts are driven by data-logging themselves and making the results available. I don’t think I am, although I can see the benefits of tracking and setting specific goals.