November 13, 2024

7 thoughts on “China to use “seawater rice” to ensure food security

  1. Please clarify your statement:
    … the new variety produces 4.6 metric tons per acre..

    Is it the total biomass rather than the grain yield, isn’t it?

    1. According to the Bloomberg article, seawater rice produces “4.6 metric tons per acre, higher than the national average yield of other rice varieties”.

  2. He says, for the potential to destroy the mangroves. And the swamps in the tributaries created by them and utterly destroying all the wildlife around them. Has anybody come up with a sustainable plan to keep the mangroves as a barrier so that this rice won’t utterly destroy all the wildlife, and all the nutrients going to the sea, this oversight is going to cause more destruction of fish, seahorses birds, and other wildlife that they depend upon if the mangroves or destroyed plus the erosion of farmland, plush the lost to carbon collection of the mangrove forest. While I’m happy, they figured it out. It needs to be grown in a bio engineered fashion show that the precious mangroves aren’t destroyed which are essential to healthy fish population so that commercial fishing continues forever.

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