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Hebei province, China's breadbasket, is a long way from Douglas Trett's mechanized, 4,000-acre corn, cotton, nut and wheat farm, north of Fresno, Calif. "I just came back from a field where a man was working barefoot with oxen," Trett says in a tone of wonderment, as if he has just returned from another planet...
...hard to imagine China's peasant farmers, with their garden-size plots and primitive technology, matching Western agroindustry, but Trett will do his part to get them there. He has been hired by Chinaveg, a private company owned by the Hong Kong venture-capital firm Interasia and other investors. Trett's mission: to modernize farming techniques for the 6,000 tons a year of lettuce that Chinaveg grows, washes, cuts and packages for sale to buyers in China, including KFC's operations there, to the Japanese fast-food giants Ajinomoto and Yoshinoya and to hundreds of supermarkets...
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...Sale. In Effingham, Ill., John Trett couldn't understand why money kept disappearing from his café cash register; finally dismantled the machine, uncovered a tidy mouse nest constructed of $1 and $5 bills...