Technology raises farm productivity
By Cheng Yingqi | China Daily | Updated: 2013-06-04 08:14
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Hydroponically cultivated strawberries are harvested in Shangjie, a village in Lingchuan county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, in April. Scientific and technological authorities in Guangxi used a special 1.5 million yuan ($245,000) fund to support hydroculture in the village after a water shortage. Photo by Lu Boan / Xinhua |
For Bai Qiangguo, 53, life on the wind-blown plains of central Ningxia Hui autonomous region was like being frozen in time: the use of excessive pesticides and fertilizers to farm the reluctant land took its toll on the little fertility there is in the soil. The land became sandier and sandier, increasingly prone to dust storms.
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