The Qingdao Saline-alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center launched a program for cultivating rice in saline-alkali soil.
Saline-alkali soil rice grown in three experimental sites across China indicate that such a cropping system could boost the country’s rice productivity.
The center aims to plant rice in 100,000 million hectares of saline-alkali soil to produce enough grains to feed 80 million people.
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