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Despite being the world's largest agricultural country with the bulk of its population - 56 percent - in rural areas, China's farming practices have changed very little throughout the centuries. The country's rapid urbanization and economic growth in the last few decades have only widened the gap between the rural and urban economies.
The increasing gap in income between city and country has prompted the central government to focus more attention on rural areas, and on agricultural development.
This is especially important for a province like Jilin, which is home to one of the world's top three corn production belts, the other two being in the United States and Ukraine.
In Jilin, the main factor that has hampered agricultural development is lack of water due to a poor farmland irrigation system. Although the province has had good crop yields for five consecutive years, it is still beset by frequent natural disasters.
'We can raise our grain production capacity if we can improve water conservation,' said Su Zheng of the water resources department of the Jilin province.
Cui, whose village on the edge of the Songnen plain is one of the country's major corn producers, agreed: 'Without a good water conservancy project, droughts and floods still threaten our crops every year. Due to a severe drought last year, our yield was only a little more than 11,500 kg.'



Most of the villagers rely on well water

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