And rural incomes are unlikely to rise when heavy farm labor falls to the elderly.

On social issues, officials are promoting tax relief for peasants and subsidies to increase grain output as a way to raise rural incomes.

Officials say the measures have proven effective in increasing rural incomes.

This kind of responsible marine aquarium industry creates sustainable rural income in countries like the Philippines, where there are few economic options.

Beijing has also eliminated an 8 percent tax on tea production as a way to increase rural incomes.

Handicrafts are the major source of rural income.

As a result, agricultural output has doubled in less than a decade, while rural incomes have risen even faster.

The value of goods farmers produced and consumed themselves accounted for 31 percent of rural income in 1985.

But the shift to household-based farming brought an immediate rise in rural incomes.

The stated objectives were food security through self-sufficiency and improvement of rural incomes.