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<p>QuinnBarajas52: </p> <hr /> <div>Bamboo rat farmers in central China have been hit hard by Beijing's national ban on the wildlife trade following the pandemic outbreak&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Bamboo%20rat Bamboo rat] farmer Liu Yanqun was just starting to make plump returns from the rodents in his farm in central China when the [http://www.answers.com/topic/coronavirus%20broke coronavirus broke] out at the end of last year.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The killer virus has since been linked to China's wildlife trade, with scientists saying it could have originated in bats and been transmitted to people via another mammal.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In response, Chinese authorities imposed a national ban on the trade and consumption of various animals that are used in speciality regional dishes, including bamboo rats, cobras and civet cats.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The ban has cost tens of thousands of jobs in rural China, where the relatively cheap form of farming of wildlife had once been promoted as a way to lift people out of poverty.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I felt like breaking down... it's hard for me to find another job,&quot; said Liu, who has seen his modest business farming about 800 rats in central Hunan province fall apart.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I don't have a clear plan on what to do next.&quot;&lt;br&gt; Bamboo rat farmer Huang Guohua dismantles cages inside his farm in central China's Hunan province&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Liu, 38, had converted the six rooms of his old family house -- nestled deep in winding, mountainous roads -- into the rat farm six years ago.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He had just been starting to make decent returns last year and, like many other farmers, government compensation packages for ending his business have not been enough.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In May, Hunan was among the first provinces to offer compensation to encourage farmers to switch livelihoods.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Authorities evaluated farms and inventories, offering 75 yuan ($11) for a kilogram of bamboo rat, 120 yuan for that of cobra and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] 600 yuan for each civet cat.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Farmers told AFP the buyout did not meet the market value of the animals, and only covered a small proportion of infrastructure costs on their farms.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;One bamboo rat farmer said the buyout covered just half his animals' market value.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Some farmers also struggled while authorities took time to assess livestock.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;We couldn't kill them or sell them,&quot; said cobra farmer Li Weiguo, 61, adding that many of his reptiles had died by the time the authorities came for them.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I had over 3,000 snakes but only received compensation for 1,600 or so eventually,&quot; he said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- 'Crying inside' -&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;China's clampdown on exotic animal farms has affected nearly 250,000 jobs, with businesses unable to sell animals worth some 11 billion yuan, a state media report said last week.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;With compensation barely covering their investments, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour phượng hoàng cổ trấn] farmers told AFP they were struggling to repay debts with little capital to start new ventures.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;All the money (for my business) came from loans... and friends and relatives. I have no means to repay them and they ask me regularly these days,&quot; said Li, the cobra farmer.&lt;br&gt; Former bamboo rat farmer Huang Guohua feeds his rabbits after Beijing's wildlife ban forced him to give up his bamboo rat business&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Another bamboo rat farmer, Huang Guohua, said he had been left with more than 400,000 yuan in debt.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Last year, I had plans to expand the business... but the coronavirus outbreak caused us to suffer huge losses,&quot; said Huang, 47.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;His plan was to triple the scale of his farm, but the money he poured into infrastructure has gone down the drain because of the wildlife ban.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I was crying inside,&quot; said Huang, who now raises rabbits and chickens.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;China has set an ambitious target of eradicating extreme poverty and [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] building a &quot;moderately prosperous society&quot; by the end of 2020.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But the pandemic fallout has made such a goal increasingly hard to achieve, with China's economy contracting 1.6 percent year-on-year in the first half of 2020.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Even before the coronavirus dragged economic growth, more than five million rural Chinese lived in poverty -- defined by the government as surviving on less than 2,300 yuan ($326) a year.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;With the epidemic this year, we are returning to poverty -- and to a worse state than before,&quot; said Huang.&lt;br&gt;</div>

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