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Category:Standard gauge locomotives of Great BritainYunnan, China - Wang Luyuan's family scrapes together as little as $2 a month to buy enough maize, rice and wheat to feed them through the spring, the most critical time for planting.
Then, when a bumper grain crop is ready to harvest in June, her family will face a bumper bill. She has no choice but to pay.
"I don't have the means to pay for fertiliser and seeds," said the farmer.
Rising affluence and the difficulty of access to credit have pushed the prices of staple grains in Yunnan, a major supplier of rice and maize in China, to levels that are unaffordable for most farmers.
Prices in parts of central Yunnan have gone as high as $9 a kilogram, or nearly four times the region's average price in March, according to the Chinese Grain Market Committee, an industry group.
Yet, for farmers in Yunnan, China's least developed province, not having the money means they cannot afford to plant.
"Yunnan rice farmers will not be able to plant their rice and plant a crop in the spring, so we will fail to meet our obligations to the government," said a villager from a village called Lianyi, 50km west of Kunming city, the provincial capital.
"How should we pay? We need to pay for the land, but we don't have enough money."
'An unprecedented situation'
As China's economy has grown, it has become increasingly difficult for farmers to get enough of the grains that they need.
It's quite common for rice farmers in the province of Jiangxi to borrow from local banks at interest rates of 8 to 12 per cent a year to pay for their seeds and fertiliser.
In 2013, lenders in the region charged between 7.2 and 12.5 per cent a year.
"Those who do not pay will be ruined," said Duan Zhongmian, an expert at Yunnan University.
It is a simple problem of supply and demand.
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