Biden admin failing to track Chinese ownership of US farmland: govt watchdog
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The Department of Agriculture is failing to properly track foreign investment in agricultural land, leaving the nation's food security vulnerable, a watchdog agency found.
"Sharing current data could help increase visibility into potential national security risks related to foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land," the GAO report, which was published late Thursday, states. "USDA implements AFIDA across field offices and headquarters, but its processes to collect, track, and report key information are flawed." Thomas Catenacci is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
The GAO investigation concluded that USDA collects AFIDA data on paper forms filed with county or federal offices, but that its process is "unclear and challenging to implement." And USDA also has no plans and timelines to create an online AFIDA database despite Congress mandating the agency create one by 2025.