Food & Resource Security
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In the same vein, China is also a leader in growing salt tolerant rice, 691 kg per mu translates to 10000kg/ha, that's as good as conventional rice normally gets and allows China to use a large amount of normally non-arable land to grow such a critical food crop.
This is huge for China's food security. I recently heard some Western "experts" talking that they could just stop Brazil from delivering them food in the case of Taiwan intervention, and let them starve to death (their own words), however, they don't understand that China doesn't use GMOs at all but they have the technology.
If they slowly move everything into GMO, then there would be 50% more yield, for soybean and corn crops, coming directly from China, more than enough to be self-sufficient I think. I don't know why they waited until now and relied so extensively on their enemy the US or on Brazil which is so far away from them and unreliable. They seem to import GMO imports, however, outlawed GMOs domestically, which is weird.
It is not weird. Europe did similarly. The whole idea is to prevent GMOs from contaminating local selective bred varieties. Importing processed GMO foods carries no such risk.
As for why to import such things instead of growing locally, it is a way to make the trade balance more even. Otherwise what would you even import from the US?
China has revealed a plan to break through the core technology for farming on alkali soil in 15th five year plan(2025-2030). which will enable the country's farmers to make good use of the unhealthy soil that occupies more than 500 million mu (333,333 square kilometers) of land. research is on advance stages. team is optimistic about breakthrough in next few years.
China has about 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land, of which about 550 million mu are available for utilization. The land is a potential resource for the safeguarding of the country's food security.
"Compared with desertified land or land suffering from stony desertification, the improvement of saline-alkali land is less difficult and much more feasible. If it can be fully improved and utilized, the saline-alkali land will become China's new granary in the future," said Shi Weiyong, a professor at the School of Environment and Resources at Zhejiang University.
China has about 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land, of which about 550 million mu are available for utilization. The land is a potential resource for the safeguarding of the country's food security.
"Compared with desertified land or land suffering from stony desertification, the improvement of saline-alkali land is less difficult and much more feasible. If it can be fully improved and utilized, the saline-alkali land will become China's new granary in the future," said Shi Weiyong, a professor at the School of Environment and Resources at Zhejiang University.
That's about a Germany's worth of new agricultural land - and I mean the total area of Germany, not Germany's land used in agriculture. By the 2040s China will be a net food and energy exporter.China has revealed a plan to break through the core technology for farming on alkali soil in 15th five year plan(2025-2030). which will enable the country's farmers to make good use of the unhealthy soil that occupies more than 500 million mu (333,333 square kilometers) of land. research is on advance stages. team is optimistic about breakthrough in next few years.
China has about 1.5 billion mu of saline-alkali land, of which about 550 million mu are available for utilization. The land is a potential resource for the safeguarding of the country's food security.
"Compared with desertified land or land suffering from stony desertification, the improvement of saline-alkali land is less difficult and much more feasible. If it can be fully improved and utilized, the saline-alkali land will become China's new granary in the future," said Shi Weiyong, a professor at the School of Environment and Resources at Zhejiang University.