The Trump administration is moving to protect America’s farmlands and ban the sale of land to Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries through a multi-agency effort.
The National Farm Security Action Plan was announced Tuesday by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins while surrounded by several other Cabinet members and Republican governors.
“American agriculture is not just about feeding our families, but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Ms. Rollins said at a press conference at the Agriculture Department headquarters Tuesday.
She said “swift legislative and executive action” will be taken to ban the purchase of farmland by Chinese nationals.
Seven active agreements with foreign countries of concern have been canceled and 70 people affiliated with those countries have been removed. Another 550 entities are in the process of