by Summer Lane
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Tuesday morning the launch of a new seven-point “National Farm Security Action Plan” aimed at cracking down on Chinese purchases of American farmland, describing the new policies as a form of “stewardship and conservation of our American farmlands.”
“The plain reality is that American agriculture in American hands is a positive good, a rich blessing…every family, every home, every community depends upon what our farmers do, and they support and sustain us,” Rollins said during a press conference in Washington, D.C.
🚨 @SecRollins announces the USDA’s seven-point National Farm Security Action Plan:
“The first of the seven is securing and protecting American farmland ownership—actively engaging at every level of government… to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and… pic.twitter.com/uX1RvGhkAl
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She decried the purchase of American farmland by Chinese communists and foreign adversaries whose intentions are unclear.
“We are taking this purpose and our American farmland back,” she said.
