Farewell to the farm

A woman surnamed Xu talks about the farmland behind her yesterday in Jingnan Village in the Pudong New Area. The countdown has begun for the 1,000-square-meter farmland - the last within the city's Inner Ring Road - as the land will be turned into a public park, and some community service facilities will be built there under a redevelopment plan approved by the Pudong government last October. There are now seven or eight households growing various vegetables including Chinese cabbage, spinach and celery on the land. "We eat what we cultivate mostly, and sell the rest at the market," said a resident surnamed Lin. "And we never use any pesticide." The Inner Ring Road is more than just a system of getting around the city, it is also a line that defines the "downtown" area of Shanghai. House prices within the Inner Ring Road are much higher than those outside.

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