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Yuan Longping Launches Plan to Expand Growth of Saline Soil Rice
  ·  2020-01-14  ·   Source: China Daily

Yuan Longping, renowned agronomist known for developing the first hybrid rice strains, launched a plan on January 13 to expand the growth of rice in saline-alkali soil in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Yuan's team, along with the digital agriculture division of e-commerce giant Alibaba, will plant 200,000 mu (13333.3 hectares) of saline-alkali soil rice in the next three years in Hinggan League, according to a press conference held in Sanya in South China's Hainan Province.

Yuan said it is his dream to improve the environment in saline-alkali lands and desert areas, secure food for the poverty-stricken people in these areas and double the income of local farmers.

In September 2019, Yuan's team completed an experiment planting rice on 1,000 mu (66.67 hectares) of saline-alkali soil in Hinggan League. The yield reached 508.8 kg per mu, exceeding the team's goal of 300 kg per mu.

Rice is a staple food in China, as well as many other Asian countries.

China has about 100 million hectares of saline-alkali soil, of which about one-fifth could be ameliorated to arable soil.

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