Climate Adaptation
China Plans to Feed 80 Million People With ‘Seawater Rice’
Chinese scientists have developed salt-tolerant strains of rice in a bid to ensure food security as sea levels rise from climate change.
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Jinghai district in northern China is hardly a rice-growing paradise. Located along the coast of the Bohai Sea, over half of the region’s land is made of salty, alkaline soil where crops can’t survive. Yet, last autumn, Jinghai produced 100 hectares of rice.
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China Plans to Feed 80 Million People With ‘Seawater Rice’