China farmers build wall of cash with $2.2 mn payout

The farmers, members of a co-operative in Liangshan county in the southwestern province of Sichuan, stacked bundles of 100-yuan banknotes into a wall two metres (seven feet) long and half a metre high before handing out the dividends, the semi-official China News Service reported.

The co-operative - which runs vegetable fields, fruit farms and an investment arm - paid out more than 13.1 million yuan ($2.2 million) to about 340 families, said the agency.