Salt water resistant rice can boost harvest by nearly 20 per cent

Salt water resistant rice can boost harvest by nearly 20 per cent

“Rice grown on a commercial scale in diluted seawater has, for the first time, made it into the rice bowls of ordinary Chinese people after a breakthrough in food production following more than four decades of efforts by farmers, researchers, government agencies and businesses.

The rice was not grown in traditional rice paddy, where fields are filled with fresh water, but on a salty beach on the Yellow Sea coast in Qingdao, Shandong…”

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https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/10/salt-water-resistant-rice-can-boost-harvest-by-nearly-20-per-cent.html/amp

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